Pioneers of photography “Russian and Soviet Photography from Swiss Collections”

The catalogue is dated to Pioneers of Photography. Russian and Soviet Photography in Swiss collections exhibition held by the Russian Museum. The articles included into the publication are devoted to the problem of perception and the very culture of collecting photography in Russia in the late 19th v the first half of the 20th centuries, as well as to oeuvre of leading Russian and Soviet photographers of the period. Illustrated catalogue of works is accompanied with brief biographies of the photographers.