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Photo album preview project -- requests, please!
« on: June 04, 2008, 10:03:08 AM »
Hey friends,

As a supplement to maintaining the APTM Book Finder, I've decided to upload interior snapshots of Romanov photo albums into my photobucket account, so people can get an idea of what a book is like before purchasing. This will be a chance for you to flip through a few virtual pages before investing in a book, and hopefully avoid disappointment.

To preserve the authors' copyright, I will post perhaps half a dozen spreads from each book, and they will probably be of medium quailty -- I'm using Mac Photobooth, not a scanner. Here's an example from Charlotte Zeepvat's Camera and the Tsars:



My goal is to give you a feel for the balance of text and photos, and also a sense of who is featured, whether the photos are formal or informal, common or rare.


This is an online version of my personal Romanov library:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/sarahelizabethii&tag=Romanov

If there is a photo album in my collection you would like to see a preview of, please leave a request here. If a book is primarily text, not photos, I will not post a preview.

When I have a few books' worth of previews uploaded, I'll post a link to my photobucket account and the guest password.
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2008, 06:31:38 PM »
Oh! I been wanting to get that book now for ages!! How are the pictures? Rare or same ones in the wikipedia?

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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2008, 06:37:56 PM »
I don't know which photos wikipedia has, but here's my preview album for Camera and the Tsars:

http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y285/sarahelizabethii/Romanov/Photo%20Album%20interiors/Camera%20and%20the%20Tsars%20Zeepvat/

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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2008, 06:46:53 PM »
There beautifuil, I love the one's of Nicolas and Alexander; you could really see the emotion.  :-[

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« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2008, 07:30:51 PM »
Awesome project Sarushka!
I have always wanted to know what Romanovs Revisited by David William Cripps looked like inside! *has added the book to her wish list*

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« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2008, 08:11:33 PM »
Hee. Thanks. I may redo a few of the images eventually; they weren't meant to be high quality, but some of them are excessively crappy.
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« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2008, 08:24:14 PM »
Fantastic job, Sarushka!  I see your hard work is paying off already. This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. 

By the way, the book finder has helped me tremendously!   

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« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2008, 02:01:06 AM »
Excelent work Sarushka¡¡¡ and hard¡¡¡

It´s a really treasure for all of us.

Thank you very much.

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« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2008, 05:39:58 AM »
Actually, I've finished the project, so I should just post links to all the albums I've made previews for:

Anastasia's Album, by Hugh Brewster
Camera and the Tsars, by Charlotte Zeepvat
Jewel Album of Tsar Nicholas II, by Alexander von Solodkoff
The Last Tsar, by Larisa Yermilova
Romanovs: Lover, Power & Tragedy, by Aleksander Bokhanov
Nicholas and Alexandra: At Home with the Last Tsar and His Family (exhibition album)
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Family Albums, by Prince Michael of Greece
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia (exhibition album)
Nicholas II: The Imperial Family, by Olga Barkovets
Nicholas Romanov: Life and Death, by Shelyaev
The Private World of the Last Tsar, by Alexander Grabbe
The Romanovs Family Album, by Marilyn Swezey
Romanovs Revisited, by David William Cripps
Royal Russia, by Carol Townend
Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty, by Iroshnikov
Toys of the Tsar's Children [Na Detskoi Polovine] (exhibition album)
Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra, by Peter Kurth
Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Summer Residence
Tsesarevich, by Olga Barkovets

Or if you'd like to see at a glance which books are included in my preview albums, click here for a gallery of cover art.

Again, the guest password is "romanov"

Great work, Sarushka. Can you tell me where you purchased Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Summer Residence? I thought I saw something similar at the Hermitage Site shop and was wondering if it was worth the purchase.

Again, great job and thank you so very much.

Louise

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« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2008, 07:06:26 AM »
Ena, Isabel & Louise, you're very welcome.


Can you tell me where you purchased Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Summer Residence? I thought I saw something similar at the Hermitage Site shop and was wondering if it was worth the purchase.

Yes, the book has been available through the Hermitage website, but I got mine in trade from an AP member in St. Petersburg! She purchased a copy for me at the Bukvoed shop. At the time they did not accept online orders; I'm not sure if they do now.

If your primary interest is in the Alexander Palace during the reign of NII, you might be disappointed. (In that case I'd recommend Nicholas & Alexandra: At Home with the Last Tsar and His Family.) However, it is a beautiful book full of large full-color illustrations of the Catherine and Alexander parks and palaces.
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« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2008, 07:10:45 AM »
Thanks for the info. I'll give the Hermitage shop a try.

Louise

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« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2008, 07:37:58 PM »
Thanks to a brilliant idea from Laura Mabee, I'm now in the process of adding what we've christened "video flip-throughs" of each book to my preview albums. These are 60-90 second videos showing the inside of each book from end to end -- just fanning through the pages as if you were browsing the book in a shop, like so:

Romanovs Revisited flip-through

If you click on the album links I've already posted in reply #4, you'll find most of them have already been updated to include the videos. The rest of the flip-throughs will be available by tomorrow, provided my router cooperates...


Also, two new additions:
House of Special Purpose, by J.C.Trewin
Nikolai II, by Aleksandr Bokhanov
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« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2008, 10:34:00 PM »
Oooh Sarushka ! That's so nice from you, thank you very much to take the time to do these little videos!


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« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2008, 06:23:10 PM »

Sarushka -- what a wonderful idea!  That Laura!

I was able to "flip" the "Romanovs Revisited" but the other ones are asking me for a password for your photobucket account.

Much thanks to you and Laura!
Janet R.