Inside the Russian pavilion at the 1900 Exposition Universelle wrapped in enough sable to stay warm through a Siberian winter. One from the 1889 Paris Exposition, too. Coming out in spring, maybe.

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Craft Section of the Russian pavilion at the 1900 Paris Exposition, interior design by Alexander Golovin. Reproduced from Mir Iskusstva magazine 1900. Number 21-22. Page 109. Image © Tretyakov Gallery Magazine. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.tg-m.ru/catalog/en/artists/photos/17459
Paris Exposition: Interior of the Russian-Siberian Pavilion, Paris, France, 1900. Photograph or perhaps a postcard. Archives of the Brooklyn Museum. Image source: Flickr. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_Exposition_Russian-Siberian_Pavilion,_Paris,_France,_1900.jpg
Russian Pavilion, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889. December 30, 1889 photograph. Photographer not given. Collections of the Keasbury-Gordon Photograph Archive. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.alamy.com/russian-pavilion-exposition-universelle-paris-1889-image447230267.html

Not sure whether there was one pavilion or a few of them. Either way they were wonderful.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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