• Unknown (photographer)
• I. Zhukov (role unspecified)
• I.F. Michurin (role unspecified)
• D.B. Ukhtomsky (role unspecified)
• I.Ya. Shumaher (role unspecified)

View of Troitse-Sergeyevo Monastery (Trinity-Sergii Monastery) showing the belfry and Uspenskyi Cathedral, Zagorsk, Moscow

ca. 1883

Albumen silver print

comp.: 31.4 x 41.3 cm secondary support: 47.0 x 64.1 cm sheet: 39.4 x 48.5 cm

PH1987:0462

• exterior view

imprinted and dated - in black ink, on the print below the image, l.l.: "SVYATOTROITSKAYA SERGIEVA LAVRA. / OSNOVANA PREPODOBNYM SERGIEM RADONEZHSKIM V 1377 GODU. STENAMI OKRUZHENA OKOLO 1561 GODA. / V NACHALE XVII STOLETIIA VYDERZHALA OSADU POLIAKOV, PRODOLZHAVSHUIUSIA GOD I CHETYRE MESIATSA. / Sniato s Terent'ievskoi gory, gde vovremia [sic] Pol'skoi osady stoial otriad Lisovskago s ogromnou / pushkou Trescherou, kotoraia razbita v kontse Oktyabria 1608 goda vystrelami s bashen' Lavry." [SAINT-TRINITY SERGIEVA LAVRA / FOUNDED BY THE ST. SERGII RADONEZHSKII IN 1377. SURROUNDED BY WALLS CA. 1561. / IN THE BEGINNING OF XVII CENTURY SURVIVED THE SIEGE BY POLISH ARMY THAT LASTED A YEAR AND FOUR MONTHS. / Taken from the Terent'evski Mountain, where during the Polish siege was situated the Lisovski detachment with a huge / cannon Treschera that was destroyed in the end of October 1608 by the shots from the Lavra towers.]; and l.r.: "MONASTÈRE DE LA Ste. TRINITÉ. / FONDÉ PAR St. SERGE RADONEJSKY EN 1377. ENTOURÉ DE MURS VERS L'AN 1561. AU COMMENCEMENT / DU XVIIme SIÈCLE IL SOUTINT LE SIÈGE DES POLONAIS DURANT UN AN ET QUATRE MOIS. / Vue prise du Mont de Térente, où, pendant le siège, se trouvait le détachement de Lissovsky avec l'énorme / canon treschéra qui fut brisé par les décharges des tours du Monastère à la fin d'Octobre de l'an 1608." imprinted and numbered - in black ink, on the print below the image, l.c.: "No du negatif 29012."; and with the royal seal comprised of a two-headed eagle with a crown and "Russkaya Fotografiia / v Moskve. / na Volkhonke dom Kir'iakova." [Russian Photography / in Moscow. / in Volkhonka Kir'iakov's house.] imprinted - in black ink, on the secondary support, b.: "Photographie Russe à Moscou."

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• monastery
• cathedral
• bell tower
• water tower