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Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях
Беловежская пуща.
1894 г.

Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs
Belovezhskaya Pushcha
1894

Music:
Excerpt from the "Eroica Fantasy" by Anton Rubinstein

Belovezhskaya Pushcha or Białowieża Forest is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain and is home to the European bison, Europe's heaviest land animal...
The forest was a favourite hunting ground for the Russian Tsars and contained a palatial Hunting Lodge.... The photographs in this presentation taken in 1894, take us into the interior of the Lodge and environs and we see the Tsarevich Nicholas ( Nicholas II) out hunting.... Today, alas, the Hunting Lodge has long since gone, being torn down following the Second World War.....