Horse pulling a cart on a dirt road in front of the Trinity Monastery in Sergievo, Russia
Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, American, 1868 - 1960
September 1930
Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 3 7/8 × 5 5/8 in. (9.8 × 14.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, Class of 1889
PH.2004.24.112
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
View of the Trinity Monastery of St, Sergius, Sergievo, Russia, one of the important architectural and historical monuments of medieval Russia, founded in 1340 and endowed with tremendous riches. It shows one dome of the five-domes Uspensky Cathedral, built in the 16th century and containing the tomb of Boris Godunoff. Left of the is the 18th century belfry of the monastery, one of the most remarkable in Russia, and firther left is the Troitsky (Trinity) Cathedral, begun in 1427and containing a collection of ecclesiastical metal work textlies and ikons.
Provenance
Ralph Sylvester Bartlett (1868-1960, Class of 1889), Boston, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1959; catalogued, 2004.
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