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# A Drummer-Shepherd Calls the Herd at Dawn in a Photograph of 1910-11
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/pastukh-barabanshchik-sozyvaet-stado-na-zare-na-fotografii-1910-11-gg/
- Published: 2026-02-03T06:31:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:07.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Observations, Mores, Ethnography

A drummer-shepherd calls the herd at dawn in a photograph of 1910-11 by Zakhar Vinogradov, from the series “In the Lands Beyond the Volga and Along the Vetluga”.

The historic photograph captures a shepherd summoning the herd at dawn with the help of traditional Russian wooden instruments, the barabanka and its beaters. The barabanka is a trapezoidal board on which the beaters drummed out rhythmic signals; at the sound the cattle came out of the farmyards and followed their shepherd.

How little we know of the real village life of old Russia!