Markov Family, Russia, 1905

Leonnard Huss, olhe, a foto da Russia da epoca ^^

wonderful photo!

Alicia ?

Love these photos

great pic. but even befoore I could read I knew they were Russian.

Look at the clothes

Five years later...Revolution

Interesting photo as they are not posing in the usual formal manner. I think the girl with the doll is kneeling. The grandmama has her hand in the bosom of her shawl, uninterested. Family members seem to b photo'd by surprise? Interesting!

Neat picture.

Middle class.- interesting photo.

I like how the family behind them is posing for the photo.

Wonder if the woman sitting that appears older is maybe nursing a child??
Wonder what the background on this pic is???
Were they getting ready for a more formal pic and this was shot in preparation??

Love this photo!!

Great photo!

Very nice photo

Even in hard times a child needs her dolly*

I love Looking at Pictures Like this Bring Back memories of All

Wonderful picture

How gorgeous this photo is.... lived such simple lives, hard times, but still had lots of love to give., got on with things.... the best way they could. Now everyone complains if they cant have the latest car or device... hmmmmmmmm

Wild photo ! Trying to figure out what's on the other end of the rope the woman on the far left is holding. Also I know there is damage from folding down the right side but,could there be another rope, maybe noose type,on that side ? The only person that appears to want to be in the photo ,is waving his hat and smiling. Not sure what's going on...

Beautiful picture

Is the second one in from the right a boy? Looks like he/she is wearing a dress.
Great picture.

The girl with the doll looks to me like she is on her knees , and may be older I thought her arm was to long for a young one.

Linda Thank you so much. I love Seeing the Pictures. I See It As Part Of HISTORY. A Wonderful thing to see

They all have the same brow line...

She looks to me like an adult kneeling. That face is VERY mature for a young girl with a doll!

Nadsya Efseaff

I think so to Mary Look at her face compaired to the teens standing there she looks much older.

I thought the doll was another family member!

Impressionnant ♡ ♥

Thanks for all of comments! I'm interested in your reaction very much.

Am i the only one whos sees a skull shape in the top of the girl o. The right

Linda Thank you so much. I just Love the People in the picture And how things are So Different Than Today. Sometimes Just Taken a Look at the Background. Things are Looking Better THAN TODAY Not EVERYONE IS RUNNING Around AND RUSHING Around. Things Seem to be Wonderful. But Medical treatment and Technical Things are More Available Then the older Day's

Marina Hanna

I would like to know something about Vladimir Markov (1883-?) and Serafima Markova (1885-?)! Maybe, the brother and sister of my great grandfather Boris (all of them were children of Pyotr Markov) lived at Lodz (Poland) after 1917.

belle photo

Vicky Byrne might interest you! Not sure if they are aristocratic though! :-)

They are no kulaks then. :-P I was thinking that from the expensive looking doll.

I hope that style of clothes never comes back.....

Yes the girl with the doll looks mature but I suppose In those days they looked always serious

Linda And S Thank you

Saratov had many Germans living there, and nearly all the ethnic Germans in Russia were moved to Siberia, and north of the arctic circle, by force, near the beginning of WWI. My father's entire ancestry is the Germans from Russia. Those who didn't get out of Russia in time were victims of the Holodomer. Hundreds of thousands Germans, alone, died during that period, but more Ukrainians died in that period than Germans - not a lot more, but more. You need to read Alexandr Solzhenitsyn to know what was really going on with the Bolsheviks/Communists, including in the early rumblings of their movement - not his political philosophies, but his stories and poems. There you will learn the truth. A great many in my father's family died in the Holodomer. It's not true that they paid no attention to the strikes in Siberia - they just took their machine guns and mowed them all down, like sick and useless cattle.

Yes, Sylvia, there were many Germans at Saratov and county. Yes, many of them were moved to Siberia and Khazahstan at the beginning of WWII (not WWI: as far as I know, tsar Nikolay II moved nobody, Russian tsar was himself almost fullblooded German). That decision of the Soviet government was a result of Hitler's practice of using "wolksdoiche" (German diaspora) against native people of the countries he'd occupied. And, yes, that was a tragedy for every ethnic German, who was Soviet/Rassian patriot, who wasn't going to become Nazy collaborationist. Nevertheless I met some Russians of German diaspora origin and there are some famous persons among them: Tatiana Peltcer and Alicia Friendlich (acrtresses), German Gref (economist), etc.
But tell me, please, Sylvia, what time your ancestors really moved from Russia. I'm asking you, because "Holodomer" ("Golodomor", correctly) is Ukrainian term concerning 1930th, the time, when many people not only at Ukraine, but at South Russia and along the Volga river (Saratov county include) get a hungry death. That is why my Grandfather's family (Russians) ran from Kursk area to Central Asia that time. Do you know, Sylvia, how many Russians became victims of Stalin? – BILLIONS! I don't need neither advice to reed Solzhenitsyn (his novels were a part of my MSUniversity program 30 years ago), no Russian History lessons from foreigners: to live at any country (generation by generation) is the only way to have most correct information about it. Not myths and not stereotypes. As for strikes in Siberia, Sylvia, OK, I believe you: YOUR ancestors paid attentions to the strikes (maybe, that's why you are where you are now, and I'm at Moscow :)

We have many common understandings of what happened in Russia, but I think neither one of us knows the whole story. The Bolsheviks started the Holodomer while Tzar Nicholas was still ruling, and in the effort to appease the Bolsheviks, he changed laws that never should have been changed. Tzar Nicholas did the best he could with what he had to work with, and should be credited for his efforts, but these days he is only thought of as a villain, because people have forgotten his background, and lack of training to be the Tzar (maybe some shortsightedness on the part of his father), but the family had seen too much of the ruthlessness of the Bolsheviks, who later changed their name to Communists. Pogroms against the Germans started in the early to mid 1800's. These were not on the orders of the Tzar, the Bolsheviks were solely responsible for them, and you are absolutely correct about the billions, but among those billions were Germans whose ethnicity was no longer acknowledge, which included other ethnicities as well. There is too much to that whole history to be able to disscuss in any email or message.

Sveta Lute, thank you for posting this photo. It brings to mind many very sad thoughts, but I think we all need to be reminded of how evil man, and the world can get. You will always be in my thoughts because of this picture. Not all the people in this picture are happy, but it shows, even in the worst of times, we can smile, and even find things to celebrate. Russia, and it's people are very dear to my heart, just not the socialist government.

Those must of been the days of Stalin ! Think of the hunger and trying to feed your family back in those days.