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Sergei Shigolev - Composition from the Walking Cycle, 1920’s
Aleksandr Golovin - Portrait of the Singer Valentina Kuza, 1900’s
(via shaltay0boltay: Д.Миронова. “Лягушонок Шлеп” (худ. В.Медведев))
Дина Миронова. ЛЯГУШОНОК ШЛЕП”
(“Советская Россия”, 1969 год, художник В.Медведев)
The local fire brigade of Tonshaevo, 1920’s.
Sergei Rachmaninov with his dog Levko on banks of the Hopyor river, 1899.
Caricatures of Death Personified
From a pre-Revolutionary magazine, first published in Russia in 1906. Illustrations by Boris Kustodiev.
Personifications of death included depictions of the devastating 1906 drought and ensuing famine, and the ravages of cholera, in the midst of revolutionary uprisings in Moscow.
(via biomedicalephemera)
One of Stalin’s Falcons, 1936. Photo by Ivan Shagin.
“At one point during the 1930s, Soviet aviators concurrently held 62 world aviation records. These men and women, dubbed ‘Stalin’s Falcons’ by the state-controlled media in the USSR, performed heroic feats in the name of the Soviet motherland and received the grateful plaudits of Stalin and the Central Committee. Indeed, Stalin and his colleagues supervised the efforts of the Soviet Union’s aviators so closely that these ‘Falcons’ themselves became a part of the Cult of Stalin. Moreover, they and their achievements fed into all of the key themes of the Stalinist 1930s.” (Source)
Iron Puddler at the Red October Rolling Mills, Stalingrad, 1930. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White.
