Arrival of mail in Alexandrovsk, 1890. Creator: Unknown

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Arrival of mail in Alexandrovsk, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Arrival of mail in Alexandrovsk, 1890.
This collection consists of forty-four photographs of Sakhalin Island and the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The photographs depict streets, individual buildings, panoramas of populated areas, and local people, including convicts and prisoners. The collection offers insights into the economy, society, and way of life in this remote corner of the Russian Empire around the turn of the twentieth century. The identity of the photographer is unknown. Kamchatka Regional Unified Museum

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