Leonid Andreyev was the last great writer of pre-revolutionary Russia. He was also a pioneering photographer, working with the autochrome color process.
Most of the photographs were taken by the Russian writer between 1910 and 1914 of his family and friends.
The pictures suggest the halcyon comforts of life at his estate on the Gulf of Finland and also abroad in Italy, where he played with his children, his yacht, went boating on Distant One, relaxing and wrote late at night. Some of the photographs from his personal photos are self-portraits of a somewhat self-conscious hero deep in thought. A man with many hobbies, the writer remarked, “If I were Tsar, I’d make everyone take up photography.”
It is amazing to see pictures from about a hundred years ago that look as though they were snapped yesterday.
Most of the photographs were taken by the Russian writer between 1910 and 1914 of his family and friends.
The pictures suggest the halcyon comforts of life at his estate on the Gulf of Finland and also abroad in Italy, where he played with his children, his yacht, went boating on Distant One, relaxing and wrote late at night. Some of the photographs from his personal photos are self-portraits of a somewhat self-conscious hero deep in thought. A man with many hobbies, the writer remarked, “If I were Tsar, I’d make everyone take up photography.”
It is amazing to see pictures from about a hundred years ago that look as though they were snapped yesterday.
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| Leonid Andreyev, Sel-portrait, 1910 |
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| Leonid Andreyev, 1907 |
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| Vadim Andreyev, 1909 |
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| Daniil Andreyev, 1912 |
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| Leonid’s wife, Anna Andreyeva, Marseille, 1910 |
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| Leonid’s wife, Anna Andreyeva, Rome, 1914 |
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| Leonid Andreyev, In bed, 1911 |
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| Leonid Andreyev, 1908-1914 |
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| Anna Andreyeva |
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| Savva Andreyev, 1908 |
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| Sunset at Vammasluu, Finland |
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| Leonid’s wife, Anna Andreyeva, Vammasluu |
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| Leonid Andreyev, Vammasluu, 1912 |
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| Leonid Andreyev, The mysterious head, 1908-1914 |
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| Andreyev’s three sons, island of Koivisto, 1913 |
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| Leonid Andreyev, 1908-1914 |
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| Savva Andreyev, 1910-1912 |
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| Children on the grass, 1907-1908 |
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| Savva and Véra Andreyeva |
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| Leonid Andreyev and his second wife, Anna, in the garden of his home in Finland |
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| Leonid Andreyev, 1910 |
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| Vammasluu, 1910 |
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| Finland, 1908-1914 |
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| Leonid Andreyev, Filip Dobrov and Daniil Andreyev at Vammasluu, 1912 |
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| Leonid Andreyev, Self-portrait, 1910 |
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| Andreyev in front of copies he made of Goya sketches in his study at Vammasluu, 1910s |
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| Self-portrait on the background of a tiled roof, 1910s |
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| Self-portrait with his son Sava, 1910-1911 |
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| Self-portrait at work, 1910s |
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| Self-portrait at his desk in the office at home on the Black River, 1910 |
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| A self-portrait taken in a mirror, showing the camera Leonid Andreyev used for his earliest stereoscopic photographs, 1903. |
