The collection of the Volgograd Regional Museum of Local History contains several pre-revolutionary postcards on which photographers captured views of Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd) from different perspectives. Some of them show Elizavetinskaya Street, the railway station and Bazarnaya Square.
This exhibit shows the Tsaritsa River during the spring floods and the houses of the Zatsaritsynsky district of the city situated on the far bank of the river. The postcard is in color. On the back of the card there is a text written in fountain pen.
Experts found out that the photograph for this postcard was taken facing north from the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, which was under construction at the time. All work on the church was completed in 1918. It stood in its place for only 16 years.
In the foreground, at the very edge of Aleksandrovskaya Square, the shops of the Trading House of Vasily Nikanorovich and Ivan Nikanorovich Rysin are clearly visible. The brothers’ shop was famous in Tsaritsyn. They sold furniture, porcelain, crystal, mirrors and crockery.
Behind the shops was the Market Square. The covered rows of shops can be seen in the photo. The building line on the far side of Market Square aligns with today’s Ostrovsky Street. The large house in the right part of the photo, which was built in the 1870s, survived to this day. The shop of the “Dombayev and Buzov” Trading House was located there.
On the left, Sofiyskaya street runs deep into the square. Visible here is the area of the former Preobrazhenskoe suburb (Vorstadt), where the streets ran off the square at a special angle and had female names. At the beginning of the 20th century the city had over 230 factories and plants (15 sawmills, 2 flour mills, 4 iron and mechanical foundries, 5 mustard and salt mills), banks and bank offices. Some of them can also be seen in this postcard.
At that time, Tsaritsyn was actively developing. A telephone network was installed in the city. In 1913, the first city tram was captured by photographers for other postcards; the construction of the Astrakhan bridge over the Tsaritsa River was completed. It was then that tarmac roads, cars and the first electric lights appeared in the city. They can be seen in postcards from the museum’s collection.
This exhibit shows the Tsaritsa River during the spring floods and the houses of the Zatsaritsynsky district of the city situated on the far bank of the river. The postcard is in color. On the back of the card there is a text written in fountain pen.
Experts found out that the photograph for this postcard was taken facing north from the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, which was under construction at the time. All work on the church was completed in 1918. It stood in its place for only 16 years.
In the foreground, at the very edge of Aleksandrovskaya Square, the shops of the Trading House of Vasily Nikanorovich and Ivan Nikanorovich Rysin are clearly visible. The brothers’ shop was famous in Tsaritsyn. They sold furniture, porcelain, crystal, mirrors and crockery.
Behind the shops was the Market Square. The covered rows of shops can be seen in the photo. The building line on the far side of Market Square aligns with today’s Ostrovsky Street. The large house in the right part of the photo, which was built in the 1870s, survived to this day. The shop of the “Dombayev and Buzov” Trading House was located there.
On the left, Sofiyskaya street runs deep into the square. Visible here is the area of the former Preobrazhenskoe suburb (Vorstadt), where the streets ran off the square at a special angle and had female names. At the beginning of the 20th century the city had over 230 factories and plants (15 sawmills, 2 flour mills, 4 iron and mechanical foundries, 5 mustard and salt mills), banks and bank offices. Some of them can also be seen in this postcard.
At that time, Tsaritsyn was actively developing. A telephone network was installed in the city. In 1913, the first city tram was captured by photographers for other postcards; the construction of the Astrakhan bridge over the Tsaritsa River was completed. It was then that tarmac roads, cars and the first electric lights appeared in the city. They can be seen in postcards from the museum’s collection.
