File:SB-10-572-source-1-original.jpg

Summary

Description

Живописная Россія (Zhivopisnaya Rossiya), illustrated half-title matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 10, page 572, item 1. The snowy cliff and spruce, icy lettering, eagle, domes and bell tower, wooden building and figures, reeds, camel, campfire and kettle, seated man and lower signatures match the album design. The lower-right signature reads A. MALINOWSKI; the lower-left imprint reads ВАРШАВСКАЯ ПОЛИТИПАЖІЯ (Warsaw Polytypography). The artist's initials are not expanded to an unverified full name.

Source

Живописная Россия: Отечество наше в его земельном, историческом, племенном, экономическом и бытовом значении, under the general editorship of P. P. Semenov, volume 2, part 1: Северо-западные окраины России. Великое княжество Финляндское, St Petersburg and Moscow: M. O. Wolf, 1882. Unnumbered illustrated half-title, reader image 5. The photographed ordinary title, reader image 6, establishes part 1 and year 1882; the catalogue/reader heading calls the bound object part 2, a discrepancy not silently transferred to this leaf.

Russian National Library (Российская национальная библиотека), Vivaldi digital library, object bv000020430.

• Library reader.
• Exact original delivered page image.
• Library record and available access/copying rights.
• National Electronic Library catalogue.

The same matrix also appears in an earlier examined book witness: volume 1, part 1, Северная Россия, 1881, RNL object bv000020387, unnumbered half-title, reader image 4; its ordinary title is reader image 5. These witnesses establish reuse of the design in 1881 and 1882, not its first-ever printing, the physical carrier of the album cutting, or the date of album assembly.

Thank you to the Russian National Library for providing the original-resolution scan and public reader, and to the National Electronic Library for its catalogue.

Rights

Historical printed illustration published in 1882; the underlying published work is public domain in the United States by age. The current specific RNL/Vivaldi record, checked 4 November 2026, exposes 100% viewing, copying and printing, and download of the whole document. These access permissions are recorded as such, not presented as a Creative Commons licence or an explicit worldwide reuse grant. No separate CC licence or Public Domain Mark for the digitization is asserted. The linked Vivaldi rules distinguish informational resources from the service/software; the software copyright footer is not attributed to the 1882 engraving. Source credit and all supplied image marks are retained.

File and processing

Full original source scan, RGB JPEG, 4123 × 5843 pixels, 5008388 bytes. Published byte-for-byte as delivered by the library, without cropping, rotation, recompression, resizing, tonal adjustment, colourization, sharpening or retouching. Natural paper colour, dark bluish-black printing, stains, full frame and both signatures are preserved. SHA-256 183cd45752b859f97e9f59fda3ed2c52c38590f841fd180687a6ae07a17c1b02.

The URL's 600 is a requested service parameter, not independently established optical scan resolution. This is the archival source companion, not another album composition. The cropped display rendition is File:SB-10-572-source-1.png. No camera/raw/TIFF file is claimed.