An antique Russian post card with a black and white studio photograph depicting a wrestling scene with two sportsmen. Inscribed in Cyrillic, Raoul and Maura. Marked, Property of D. I. Bystrov, St. Petersburg, lower right The photograph not only captures the intensity and physicality of the sport but also serves as a striking piece of early Russian sports photographic art. Matted. Dmitry Ivanovich Bystrov, a photographer, around 1908 became the owner of a photo studio on Nevsky Prospekt, Saint Petersburg. Antique Russian Photos And Sport Memorabilia For Collectors.