A set of pictures taken by Ed Clark in Moscow, 1955.
House of Leo Tolstoy
Comments of Lenin about L. Tolstoy are kept in the Museum of Leo Tolstoy under the portrait of the communist leader
Coachman of Leo Tolstoy (?)
In the museum of Leo Tolstoy
Director of the estate museum of Yasnaya Polyana – Valentin Bulgakov
People are listening to new records in a store
This Palace of Culture built in 1930 is visited by more than 3 thousand people
Happy boys and girls in costumes at the class of folk dances
Ball room dancing
Choral singing
Playing kids
Young actor at an exam
1-year male students are taught to kiss hands of ladies in a thetrical school
Teaching manners in the Moscow Art Theatre School
On the stage of a night club in Moscow
Soviet dramatic stage director Boris Vershilov
Acting classes at the Moscow Art Theatre School
Russian actress Olga Knipper
Learning the Renascence dancing
Classes at the Moscow Art Theatre School
Composer Aram Khachaturyan
Sculptors-to-be are copying human skulls
Students are learning the art of watercolour paiting
Some performance
Anna Karenina
Fairy-tales teller for a children’s program
Bolshoi Theatre
Propagandistic opera based on the events of the Civil War
Yekaterina Guseva is reading “War and peace”
American theatrical group first come to Moscow. December 1955.
In the hall of hotel “Astoria”
Christmas service In the Russian Baptist church with members of an American troupe
Orthodox life in Moscow, Russian Orthodox Church
Moscow Patriarch ministers in Bogoyavlensky Cathedral
Moscow Patriarch with Americal priests in Bogoyavlensky Cathedral
Woman lights candles during the Russian Orthodox service
Crowds in a Russian Orthodox Church
Location: Moscow
via humus
It takes a bourgeois American photographer to make this prison look good.
“Moscow Patriarch with Americal priests in Bogoyavlensky Cathedral”
Can you spot the KGB officers in this series…? The Russian Orthodox Church was completely riddled with them, you know.
And we are supposed to believe you? Do you somehow have access to ex-KGB personnel archives?
Do I? Yes, I most certainly do. Read “Tower of Secrets” by Victor Sheymov and “The Sword and the Shield” by Vasily Mitrokhin. Both are written by KGB defectors. Sheymov was a high level cipher intelligence officer and Mitrokhin smuggled tens of thousands of pages of documents out of the USSR. Both describe how the KGB had completelyinfiltrated the Orthodox church.. both in Russia and abroad. Next I suggest the biography of Stalin by Alex de Jonge. The author describes how Stalin restored the Church as a PR move to placate American church groups who had been lobbying the Roosevelt administration. Except Stalin had installed NKVD operatives at every level of the Church.
None of these things are secrets anymore. Dozens of scholarly books have been written about the issue by historians both within the former USSR and in the West. I’m always surprised by how little you Russians know about the history of your own country.
We know perfectly well our own history. Thanks, but no thanks for trying to teach us your versions of it.
Amazing pictures
There are a lot of photos of Leo Tolstoy, the most famous one are by great photographer – Karl Bulla – http://gavarit.blox.pl/2012/04/Piotr-Bulla-ojciec-fotoreportazu.html
That skull drove me nuts in academy. i was getting C till i figured out what i was doing wrong. oh yeah, that clay is cold man.
The height of Soviet culture, science, and social welfare. Not Marxist, but a healthy socialist society. It would only last another 15 years before Brezhnev’s neo-stalinist policies slowed the progress down.
I agree with sst.