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Peasants of the Kharkiv Governorate in the 1870s, as Captured by Jean Raoul

In 1878, French photographer Jean Raoul published a collection titled *Types et Costumes de la Russie* (*Types and Costumes of Russia*), which included winter photographs of residents of the Kharkiv Governorate. In photographs from the 1870s, one can see peasants with pipes and hunters with their game.

Photographer Jean-Paul Raoul worked in Odesa in the 1860s–1880s and even adopted the name Ivan. In 1877–78, he photographed the Russo-Turkish War in the Balkans; Raoul also participated in ethnographic and archaeological expeditions led by archaeologist N. Kondakov. In 1884, he returned to southern France, where he founded a photography studio. Jean Raoul won prizes at the Paris Geographical Exhibition (1875) and the Paris World’s Fair (1878) for his photographs of Odesa and Moldova.

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