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Mr. Znamenski,holding stuffed head of a wolf,Government Official,Russia,c1885

Title: [Mr. Znamenski, half-length portrait, facing left, holding stuffed head of a wolf in his lap]
Date Created/Published: [between 1880 and 1886]
Notes:
Znamenskii was the district chief of police in the Siberian town of Minusinsk when Kennan visited in January, 1886. Kennan found Znamenskii to be a petty Russian bureaucrat who 'obeyed the rules with a stupid and brutish disregard of all the circumstances'.
Photo by Fidlerman in Tobolsk.
Inscribed to George Kennan on the verso in Russian: Hot greetings from cold Siberia.
Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080).
Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.
Subjects:
Government officials--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--1880-1890.
Cartes de visite--1880-1890.
Photographic prints--1880-1890.
Portrait photographs--1880-1890.
Part of: Cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits of Russians from the George Kennan papers
Bookmark /99615517/
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