![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://2-www-accel-pss.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?container=accel&gadget=howtobearetronaut.com&debug=0&nocache=0&v=u8u7jnqbdijrtp344779jt5bjs&rooe=1&html_tag_context=img&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhowtobearetronaut.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F05%2FAtop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
‘Taken during an expedition to Yenisei Province in West Siberia, under the direction of a museum worker. Its aim was to explore and photograph the culture and everyday life of the people who lived there.’
Russian Peasants, 1911
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This is an important counterpoint to the view expressed on the post about the Tsarina’s dresses that she had a hard and tragic life. Her life may have ended badly, but no worse than for many of Russia’s peasants – neglected utterly by their aristocratic rulers.
And they didn’t live in luxury until their ends in starvation or disease.