About This Image

Great ethnographic image.

Ivan Raoult set up a studio in Odessa. He was sometimes known as J.X. Raoult. In the 1870s he traveled around Russia, making ethnographic images in many regions of the country. His photographs were awarded prizes at the 1875 Paris Geographical Exhibition in Paris and at the 1878 International Exhibition in Paris.

His photographs were the basis for the drawings in the chapter on Russian in Le Costume Historiqueby M.A. Racinet (Paris, 1888).

During the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78, he followed Russian troops to Romania and Bulgaria. In 1881 he went to the Sinai with Professor Kondakov of Novorossiisk University, where he photographed ancient sites. For this he was awarded the third order of St. Stanislav. In the summer of 1884, after a tour of Constantinople with Kondakov, he moved to France to live.

Michael Wilson, the New York Public Library and the George Eastman House have some of Raoult's photographs in their collections.

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