Деревни Ленинградской области / Villages in Leningrad province - 1920s

Жители русских сёл и деревень Ленинградской губернии Фотографии А. А. Беликов 1925 -1927 Russian villagers and villages of Leningrad Province Photographs by А. А. Belikov 1925 -1927 Музыка: Запел Ванюшка Народный хор села Ладвы (Ленинградская область) Music: Vanyushka sang Local choir of the village of Ladva (Leningrad region). Alexander Antonovich Belikov (1883-1941), a professional photographer and geography teacher. In the 1920s, A.A. Belikov, a member of the Leningrad Society of Artistic and Technical Photographers, turned to ethnography for the main theme of his photographs. “..Working in expeditions of the Russian Geographical Society and the Leningrad Geographic Institute in the summer of 1925, 1926, 1927, A.A. Belikov recorded the life, way of life and occupation of the indigenous inhabitants of the North-West; ethnic features of a particular locality, national costume; the profound processes of changes in the countryside that occurred at that time in Soviet Russia...“