Хризантемы (Chrysanthemums), 1894. Mikhail Vrubel

 Roses and Orchids, 1894. Mikail Vrubel

Viktor Vasnetsov. Sirin and Alkonost Birds of Joy and Sorrow. 1896.

Mikhail Nesterov’s The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew

The Fortune Teller, 1895, by Art Nouveau painter Mikhail Vrubel, depicting a cartomancer.

The Nobel Brothers’ oil wells in Balakhani, a suburb of Baku, Azerbaijan in the late 19th century.

The first oil well was mechanically drilled in the Bibi-Heybat suburb of Baku in 1846, though a number of hand-dug wells predate it. Large-scale oil exploration started in 1872, when Russian imperial authorities auctioned the parcels of oil-rich land around Baku to private investors. Within a short period of time Swiss, British, French, Belgian, German, Swedish and American investors appeared in Baku. Among them were the firms of the Nobel brothers together with the family von Börtzell-Szuch (Carl Knut Börtzell, who also owned the Livadia Palace) and the Rothschild family. An industrial oil belt, better known as Black City, was established near Baku. By the beginning of the 20th century almost half of world production was being extracted in Baku.

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alonebanana:

Bombing of Intendencia by Fernando Amorsolo

sisterwolf:

Berthe Morisot with a Fan - Edouard Manet, 1872

Portrait of French actress Mademoiselle Rachel (Rachel Felix)by William Etty, 1840s.

stilllifequickheart:

Isaac John Williams

Still Life

1895

sisterwolf:

Wife and son of Hare Pomare, at Windsor Castle - by William Bambridge, 1863

mizrahisephardicjews:

Tehran’s mahalla (Jewish quarter). Photo by Antoin Sevruguin. Tehran, c. 1880-1900.

oldhawaii:

Child of the land, 1890.

legrandcirque:

Alberto Henschel, Moça mulata de Salvador, Província da Bahia, Brazil, ca. 1869.

grand-bazaar:

1899 Martinique Native Woman