Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях Саратов 1880 - 1900 Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs Saratov 1880 - 1900 Music: Impromptu in F, Op.16, No.1 by Anton Rubinstein Here I present an album of photographs of the great Volga port of Saratov. The city was founded as a fortress to protect the southern borders of the Russian state in 1590, during the reign of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich on the site of a medieval Golden Horde settlement. By the 1800s, Saratov had grown to become an important shipping port on the Volga. The Ryazan-Ural Railroad reached Saratov in 1870. In 1896 the line crossed the Volga and continued its eastward expansion. A unique train-ferry, owned by the Ryazan-Ural railroad, provided the connection across the river between the two parts of the railroad for 39 years, before the construction of a railway bridge in 1935.......
