Starye gody
A Russian-language art periodical from Saint Petersburg, published in 1907 and aimed at readers of art and history, with its Getty Research Institute record giving little more detail. The pictures are halftone reproductions on plain paper of 18th-century portraits of Russian nobles and officials in powdered hair, silk coats and orders, plus a dim painted mythological scene in an arched frame, with Cyrillic captions beneath; a designer could take from them the restrained tonal palette of formal portraiture and the caption-under-plate layout.
