ON THE CENTENARY OF THE MOSCOW SCHOOL OF THE ORDER OF ST. CATHERINE (INSTITUTE FOR NOBLE GIRLS): February 10, 1903 - An Album of 62 Phototypes.

MOSCOW: P.P. Pavlov Phototype Studio, 1902. (published in advance of the centenary celebration.)

Hardcover book, title embossed on the front cover, 13x10 inches (33x25.5 cm) oblong, 62 phototype plates, each printed on its own leaf.

A turn-of-the-last-century photographic document of Moscow's Girl School of the Order of St. Catherine, consisting of 62 full page phototypes by the noted Russian photographer Pyotr Petrovich Pavlov. There is a brief caption below each phototype describing the image, and noting the photographer as P.P. Pavlov. All captions and the photographer's name are in Russian.

FAIR condition: The covers are sunned, worn through at the corners and some places along the edges, have shelf rubs and scrapes, what was likely gilt embossed titling now appears blind stamped with no gilt, and the spine has been rebacked with cloth tape; still the covers are doing their job. Internally, there is cloth tape reinforcement to the front and rear inner hinges and to the gutter hinge of the first two plates; the first leaf has its phototype pasted on (your guess as to why), but all the rest are printed on their leaf as issued; all the phototypes have soiling at the margins, some more than others, and there is some foxing, corner wear, and edge wear here and there; nonetheless the phototypes are rare and quite amazing.

A remarkable document of a long gone Russian era.

About the Moscow School of the Order of St. Catherine (from Wikipedia):

******The Moscow School of the Order of St Catherine (Russian: ?????????? ??????? ?????? ?????? ?????????) was a girls' school in Moscow, Russia, between 1802 and 1918. It was a fashionable girl school for students from noble and rich burgher families (divided in different classes until 1842). The building now houses the Central House of Officers of the Russian Army.******

About the Photographer PYOTR PETROVICH PAVLOV (from the Russian site ??????? / The State Russian Museum and Exhibition Centre):

******Pyotr Petrovich Pavlov, b.1860 d.1924, was a prominent Russian photographer celebrated for documenting architectural monuments and everyday life in Moscow at the turn of the 20th century. His work provides a critical historical record of landmarks and public events during the twilight of the Russian Empire.

Born into a peasant family in the Petrozavodsk region of Olonetsk province, Pavlov relocated to St. Petersburg and eventually to Moscow in 1881. For a decade, he worked at the prominent photographic firm ?Scherer, Nabholz & Co.. In 1891, he opened his own portrait and group photography studio.

In 1898, Pavlov was commissioned by the "Old Moscow" board to document historical and architectural monuments.******

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