This book describes four series of stereoviews taken by the French photographers in the Russian Empire between 1857 and 1870, as it was seen by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Tchaikosvky. The text discusses most of the photographers, publishers and distributors involved and among them Jules Couppier, Claude-Marie Ferrier, Charles Soulier, Athanase Clouzard, Alexandre Bertrand, Alexis Gaudin, Charles Gaudin, Pierre-Henri-Amand Lefort, Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg, Vincenzo (Vincent) Craveri, Moyse Leon, Isaac (Georges) Levy, Edward Livingston Wilson, John Stoddard, Charles Farrar, Jules Lachenal, Louis Favre, Adolph Block, etc.