The faces of the old Sochi. Sochi on ancient postcards / Faces of An Old City: Sochi on Century -ld Postcards

All cities change their appearance from year to year, from century to century. However, the strongest of all the effect of time is reflected in the cities of the metropolitan - and the cities of the resort. It is in them that the kiphen energy of life does not silent for a minute, they are the first to follow the trends of fashion. And if the city of the metropolitan and cities resort is often difficult to know even on postcards of two or three years ago, what to talk about the resort capital? Starting from 1874, when Sochi acquired the status of civil settlement, the city was repeatedly rebuilt. Today, among the modern development, there are almost no mansions and public buildings of the 19th century, and the remaining difficult to see the multi-storey hotels and boarding houses. Only occasionally flashes among the greenery of Platan and Magnolia, the original corners of the old Sochi: the date of Trapeznikova, Jacobson, the Treasury, Dacha Zinovieva. Thanks to the talented photographers of the late XIX - the beginning of the 20th century, whose pictures diverged around the world on postcards of the Russian office of the World Postal Union, you will be able to learn these monuments of history and architecture in a dense urban building. And the book you hold in your hands will tell about the fate of their owners.
The circle of interests of the Kuban photographers and publishers of postcards was not limited to architectural attractions alone. On postcards presented in this book, you will see hotels and temples, ships and pier, alleys and highways and even ... buffaloes in a puddle.
Thanks to such a variety of plots, we can draw information about the culture, life, industry, transport of the Black Sea cities from one of the open letters of past centuries. In addition, comparing vintage greeting cards with modern, you can observe how much their functional importance narrowed and how the plot palette swept. From the communicative, cultural and educational, information (card as a media) of functions, only entertaining remained, and refined plots are infinitely far from life