Views of an old Siberia that isn’t coming back. Watercolors by artist Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky who was a native of Tobolsk. Living from 1833 to 1892, he was also an illustrator.

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Dancing game in northern Russia. Kurgan near Tobolsk, western Siberia, from an ethnographic album about life in western Siberia. by 1892. Siberian/Russian. Watercolor on paper. Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, artist (1833-1892). Signed in Cyrillic on the lower left. Image © 2022 Dorotheum GmbH & Co KG. Fair use license, via https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/7129105/
 Two summer tents with three Khanty women seated in or just outside them. One woman holds a child. From a series of works created to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Tobolsk and the annexation of Siberia to Russia, which was celebrated in 1885. ca. 1885. Siberian/Russian. Watercolor on paper. Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, artist (1833-1892). Image © 2022 William Reese Company.. Fair use license, via https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM46028/mikhail-stepanovich-znamensky/three-watercolors-showing-scenes-of-the-khanty-people-a-northe
Three Khanty people in traditional clothing standing in a dining room, with a Russian official seated on the left; a portrait of the Tsar hangs on the wall in the background and an animal skin is draped on the table. From a series of works created to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Tobolsk and the annexation of Siberia to Russia, which was celebrated in 1885. ca. 1885. Siberian/Russian. Watercolor on paper. Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, artist (1833-1892). Image © 2022 William Reese Company.. Fair use license, via https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM46028/mikhail-stepanovich-znamensky/three-watercolors-showing-scenes-of-the-khanty-people-a-northe
 Winter snowscape showing a man with three reindeer standing outside a log cabin. From a series of works created to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Tobolsk and the annexation of Siberia to Russia, which was celebrated in 1885. ca. 1885. Siberian/Russian. Watercolor on paper. Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, artist (1833-1892). Image © 2022 William Reese Company.. Fair use license, via https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM46028/mikhail-stepanovich-znamensky/three-watercolors-showing-scenes-of-the-khanty-people-a-northe

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