About the Exhibit

The Slavic, East European and Eurasian archival collections of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives have long been regarded as one of the premier resources of their kind outside the homelands. Perhaps less well appreciated are Hoover’s extraordinary holdings of tens of thousands of photographs, both “loose” prints and in hundreds of collector-assembled albums found in collections relating to the vast expanse of the Caucasus, the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltics, and of course, Russia and the former Soviet Union. This exhibit in twenty-five panels seeks to provide a “lens” on a period from circa 1899 to the post- World War II era as prismed through a necessarily very small selection of documentary photographic albums chosen from the hundreds found within the Hoover’s archival collections.

Images (from left to right):

Fedor F. Foss (1874-1923?) Album, Scenes of Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine circa 1900

Russian Imperial Okhrana (Secret Police) Album, Upper Right: Young Leon Trotsky (1879-assassinated, Coyoacán, Mexico, 1940)

An exhibit opening reception will take place on January 28, 2025 at 6:00 pm. Learn more >>

Registration and government ID are required to visit the exhibit. Please email harriman@columbia.edu no later than 48 hrs before entry to register.