This post was originally published on this siteMikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was featured in a 1998 television advertisement for Pizza […]
This post was originally published on this siteLife in Moscow during the 1970s was marked by a period of stability and relative prosperity, following the […]
This post was originally published on this siteA rare and unique set of Autochrome color photograph plates, taken by Alexander Zehest in 1917 of the […]
This post was originally published on this siteIf any single event encapsulated the massiveness of hard rock and heavy metal at the end of the […]
This post was originally published on this siteBorn Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, the young Stalin studied to become a priest whilst secretly […]
This post was originally published on this siteDuring the postwar years, there was a serious housing crisis, solved by the invention of high-rise apartments. There […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe passion for collecting is a full time job, an obsession. All collectors seem to have one thing […]
This post was originally published on this siteDed Moroz is a legendary figure similar to Santa Claus who has his roots in Slavic mythology. The […]
This post was originally published on this siteOn March 10, 1991, a major opposition demonstration took place in the center of Moscow. Though estimates of […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese outstanding autochrome pictures of pre-Revolutionary Russia were taken by Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov (1866-1937). After graduating from the […]
This post was originally published on this siteSoviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great […]
This post was originally published on this siteNorman Parkinson (1913–1990) was one of the great British fashion and portrait photographers of the 20th century. He […]
This post was originally published on this siteMoscow is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central […]
This post was originally published on this siteUntil now, it’s clear that humans are totally obsessed with performing weird experiments especially, on dogs. Another one […]
This post was originally published on this siteUsing emerging technological advances in color photography, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) made numerous photographic trips to systematically document […]
This post was originally published on this site In 1959 Vladimir Demikhov, a Soviet scientist and organ transplant pioneer, attached the upper body of a […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe Bolsheviks understood the value of the new art of cinema, even Vladimir Lenin himself considered that it […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe 1903 ball in the Winter Palace was a luxurious ball during the reign of the Emperor Nicholas […]
This post was originally published on this siteWhen the USSR was dissolved in 1991, Moscow remained the capital of the Russian SFSR (on December 25, […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North […]
This post was originally published on this siteSnegovik (Russian: Снегови́к) means a “snowman”, a sculpture of a human figure made of (wet) snow in thaw […]
This post was originally published on this siteAmerican photographer and travelogue lecturer Branson DeCou journeyed the world for thirty years before his death in 1941 […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, thus starting the Space Age. […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe Red Army Choir (Choir Aleksandrov) is a performing ensemble that serves as the official army choir of […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1973, David Bowie traveled to the Soviet Union after finishing the Japan leg of his Ziggy Stardust […]
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