Russian Textile Workers, before the Revolution
14 February 2021
“…I love old photos very much. They just fascinate me. I have a feeling that by some miracle, I peeped through the keyhole and watched the world, as it really was long ago, which has sunk in time.
And this is only one step away from a not-so-fantastic hypothesis: if the past can be kept in the picture, maybe it does not disappear?
What if the people who have gone forever, still exist somewhere? In the photo they are still present…”
Boris Akunin, Russian writer. (Thanks to Igor Kozlovsky for sharing this quote.)
Workers from the textile mills in Ivanovo (Museum of Printed Cotton, Ivanovo)
Workers, managers and visitors – Emil Tsindel factory in Moscow, c 1900 (original photos in my collection)
