Lotte Jacobi in Michurinsk, Russia

From her base in Moscow, Jacobi made a three-day trip 250 miles (400 km) southeast to Michurinsk in September 5-8, 1932. She focused her work on agriculture, both workers in cotton fields and the celebrated plant geneticist, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855-1935), after whom the city of Kozlov was renamed in 1932. 

During her three-day stay in Michurinsk, Lotte Jacobi made sixty-four photographs, twenty-six of which were large format. Of these, thirty-two photographs are of Ivan Michurin and his assistants, laboratory, museum, and gardens. Other photographs focus on cotton cultivation and portraits she made with her large-format camera of farmers and people she encountered.

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