Photographs by a Russian writer : an undiscovered portrait of pre-revolutionary Russia / Leonid Andreyev ; edited and introduced by Richard Davies.

By: Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919.

Contributor(s): Davies, Richard, 1949-.

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BookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1989Description: 144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.ISBN: 0500541434.Subject(s): Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919 | Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography

DDC classification: 779.092 AND

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	779.092 AND (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00088131

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Discovered in Paris in 1987, these 80 color and 30 bandw photographs, taken about 1910-14, are artistic studies of the expressionist Russian writer, his family and friends, his home, and the countryside around St. Petersburg. Includes a biographical essay and a review of the Lumiere autochrome photographic process. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-143) and index.

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Publishers Weekly Review

In 1978 Davies, a University of Leeds England lecturer in Russian studies, happened on these 80 color and 30 black-and-white photographs taken by Russian writer Andreyev between 1910 and 1914. Mostly portraits of family and friends, the pictures suggest the halcyon comforts of life at Andreyev's dacha on the Gulf of Finland, where he played with his son, went boating on Distant One , his yacht, entertained and wrote late into the night. More than a few are self-por traits of a somewhat self-conscious hero deep in thought. A man of many hobbies, the writer remarked, ``If I were Tsar, I'd make everyone take up photography''; Andreyev's ``lack of moderation was his chief characteristic . . . he was drawn to everything colossal,'' attested a friend. Readers will be charmed by his love of a fledgling art and his ``soft and impressionable'' soul, which responded with affection to the beauties of landscape and the pleasures of home and travel (``We went out of town to the Via Appia today, but the wind was so strong and there was so much dust from the cars that Anichka sneezed all her innards out.'') (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved