ROSPHOTO, September 5 — October 12 2014
Yard building Exhibition hall,
Saint-Petersburg, Bolshaya Morskaya str., 35

In 2014, our country celebrates the 100th anniversary of the First world war — events shook the consciousness of humanity and being a first cause and source of the complex and tragic history of the twentieth weka@

State Museum and exhibition centre ROSPHOTO presents a unique exhibition project "On both sides", which gives the opportunity to look at the First world war through the eyes of the opposition parties — the Russian and German officers-gunners. The exhibition presents photographs from wartime photo albums from the collections of ROSPHOTO@

the First world is largely unknown to us war, we don't know the names of her characters, almost do not remember the progress of hostilities. This war Russia had lost in the chaos of Revolution and Civil war. The first world war for the Soviet authorities was alien class, about her tried to forget: the books were written, movies were filmed to the memory of soldiers who fought and fallen heroes. The only thing left from that time is archival documents and fotografii@

Exhibition "On both sides" will allow not only to recreate the events that took place on the fronts of the First world war, but visibly to feel a spiritual connection with the tragically departed from us Rossia@

the exhibition presented for the first time Amateur photography from the album of captain of the Life-guards 1st artillery brigade of Platon Nikolaevich Alekseev (1882-1952), past heavy military way since the early days of battles before the events taking place in the Russian army after the 1917 February revolution goda@

the Album is a chronicle of events, a direct participant of which was Platon Nikolaevich: fighting and redeployment, killed and wounded, prisoners of war, the funeral of their comrades, ceremony and prayer services, celebrations and everyday life of soldiers and officers, front-line Bratstvo@

the Second part of the exhibition — photographs made on the other side of the front, telling of their everyday wartime life of the officers of the German army. Talking about the photo album that belonged to a Lieutenant of the 2nd Bavarian field artillery regiment Karl Johannes Conrad Straus@

full albums can be seen at the exhibition in electronic form. They have prepared a special project "Eve" on the life of the Russian Empire in 1913, on the eve of the First world voyny@

Источник: rosphoto.org