Русские типы / Russian Types 1860-1870

Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях Русские типы Фотографии Вильяма Андреевича Каррик 1860-1870-х годов Pre-Revolutionary Russia in photographs Russian Types Photographs by William Andreevich Carrick 1860 - 1870 Here I present a photographic album of Russian traders taken between 1860-1870. William Carrick: Born 1826. Died 1876..... Born in Edinburgh, Carrick spent most of his life in Russia, where his family had been timber merchants since the previous century. After studying architecture at the St Petersburg Academy of Art, he went to Italy, returning to St Petersburg in 1856, only to discover the collapse of the timber trade from the effects of the Crimean War. He decided to take up photography as a career and came to Edinburgh to study with James Good Tunny in 1857. He set up his own studio in St Petersburg with John MacGregor in 1859. In 1858 he was questioned by the secret police after smuggling writings into Russia by the exiled revolutionary, Alexander Herzen. He was married to Alexandrina Markelova, a radical journalist and translator.