top of page
Children in the Summertime
"My beautiful childhood calls for me by cheerful sounds akin to sunny and salty sounds of the whistle that once adorned my white sailor suit."
-- V. Nabokov, Other Shores
Children of the high and middle class, who lived in large cities like St. Petersburg, spent summers in their families' country estates. There, they could play, swim, bike, and otherwise spend time with their cousins and other relatives.
This exhibit shows children of the Shirai family in their Solova and Grinevo estates in the south-west of Russia, in the summer of 1903.
From the archives of the Shirai family.
Attribution of St. Petersburg photos: V. Beshenkov
bottom of page