XJF440656 Meeting of Russian Peasant Elders in a Mirskoi Skhod (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mirskoi Skhod is a Russian pre-revolutionary term for a meeting of the male heads of household of a village; The seated men are wearing the traditional Russian \'valenki\' felt boots;); Russian, out of copyright.