Vasiliĭ Grigorʹevich Perov : ego zhiznʹ i proizvedenīi︠a︡
A Russian-language monograph on the painter Vasily Perov, life and works, compiled by N. P. Sobko and D. A. Rovinsky and published in Saint Petersburg in 1892 for art lovers and scholars of Russian realist painting. Its plates reproduce Perov's genre scenes as tonal engravings and photographs, several printed sideways on the page, showing peasants at labour, a road-side group, and a crowded interior. A designer might draw on the sombre earthy palette, the tight groupings of figures, and the way lamplight and dusk shape the crowds.
