Factory of LOUKOUTINE. Album of photographs. Circa 1860. The cover in black lacquered papier-mâché with a miniature representing a couple drinking tea around a samovar. 23 cardboard leaves with gilt edges. This album includes 21 photographs of the imperial family (including all the children of Alexander II), 2 lithographs (Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna, his wife), 5 photographs of Russian types (coachmen, priest, monk and merchant), 12 color photographs of Russian costumes, 2 photographs of costumes of Little Russia and 3 miscellaneous photographs (prince V. A. Dolgoroukov, Ossip Komissarov-Kostromskoy, tea drinkers at the inn). Marking on the fourth plate: mark of Loukoutine of the reign of Alexander II. 17 x 14,5 cm The first plate, the back, the first three leaves detached from the block. [Russian art]