3-005-997 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

House of VI Astashev, 1871. This lithographic album represents the Siberian city of Tomsk as it appeared at the beginning of the 1870s. It includes images of the Alekseevskii monastery and several churches, including Roman Catholic and Lutheran as well as Orthodox, and various government buildings, such as the governor's apartment and the regional administration. The album at one time belonged to F.P. Riabushinskii, a member of a famous family of Russian promyshlenniks (merchants and traders). Russian State Library