Esther M. Lederberg
Schedrovsky

  1. Apple vendor with mother and daughter and fruit vendor
  2. Beggars and Reader with Sbitten Peddler
  3. Nursery Governess (Bonn), Tobacconist, Fishmonger, and Nurse
  4. Card Players #1
  5. Card Players #2
  6. Carpenters #1
  7. Carpenters #2
  8. Charmanka (organ) grinder, Sbitenschick vendor, Carter, Sieves vendor, and Polisher
  9. Children, polisher, sbitten vendor
  10. Driver (Yamschik), Pie vendor, and street cleaners
  11. Driver (Yamschik) with wife, and Shoemaker vendor
  12. Driver (Yamschik), wrestlers, Janitress, Cranberry vendor, and Seamstress
  13. Finns, Blacksmiths, and Foreman
  14. Five Coopers and a Tselovalnik Cooper at Stove with wife
  15. Fruit Vendors
  16. Gamblers
  17. Icons
  18. Janitor, and son, with postman, and children
  19. Market in St. Petersburg
  20. Merchant and the Poor
  21. Merchant Brushes and Brooms
  22. Merchants from Finland, Farrier, Soldier, and Vendor
  23. Playing checkers
  24. Washer women, Daughter of laundry owner, and Driver (yamchik)
  25. Water carrier, Seamstress, Foot porter
  26. Wrestlers
  27. Glazier and other Construction Workers
  28. Hunters
  29. Road in Forest
  30. Sbitten vendor with Baker (reading)
  31. Cover to Schedrovsky's second album

Ignatius S. Schedrovsky is one of the most important Russian artists. He was one of the first Russian artist to depict scenes involving ordinary (not wealthy) people found in 19th century Russia. Thus Schedrovsky is our "photographer" of this period of history. Most Russians were familiar with art that depicted nobles and aristocrats (for example, the portraits of serf artist Ivan Argunov), or imagined heroic historic events, such as found in Ivan Aivazovsky's wonderful paintings. Artists soon copied Schedrovsky, and his art was forgotten. However, what Schedrovsky saw and faithfully depicted remains as a visual record of a Russia that Nikolai Nekrasov wrote about in his "Petersburg: The Physiology of a City".

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