Beauties of the Russian Empire on the Colorized Old Photos

This collection of photographs includes portraits of very different women – actresses and school girls, ballet dancers and housekeepers, revolutionists and aristocrats. But all of them are beautiful, and their beauty is highlighted by the art of photography and the talent of Olga Shirnina, who restores the lost color palette. Old photos are given another life, and the noble aristocratic beauties of the Russian Empire become closer.

Ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya.

Fashionable lady from Kashin (Tver region, Russia), 1900s

Ballerina Agrippina Vaganova.

Student of the Alexander Institute for Noble Maidens, St. Petersburg.

Alexandra Kollontai (revolutionist).

Anastasia Vyaltseva, mezzo-soprano.

Ballerina Anna Pavlova with her pets.

Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan.

Baroness Graivenitz in a Russian costume, 1900.

Just a beautiful Russian lady.

Countess Sofia Vyazemskaya, late 1900s.

Elizaveta Kologrivova, Russian writer and translator.

Student of the Institute for Noble Maidens, St. Petersburg.

Marietta Dekins, 1900-1917

Georgian Princess Maria Prokofievna Eristova-Shervashidze.

Matilda Kshesinskaya.

Girl from the North Caucasus.

Girl from Saratov.

Student of the Alexander Institute for Noble Maidens, St. Petersburg.

Siberian girl.

Princess Zinaida Yusupova.

Ballerina Tamara Karsavina.

Young Russian bride, 1903

Anna Pavlova again, 1905–1910

Actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya.

Anna Pavlova at home, 1910s

Anna Pavlova in the ballet performance “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, 1910

The same

The bride of captain Dashkov.

Larisa Reisner (revolutionary, journalist and poetess).

Portrait of a young Russian woman, 1910.

Vera Kholodnaya, silent film star, 1910s

Anna Pavlova in a Russian costume, 1911

Vera Kholodnaya, 1916.

Tamara Karsavina dressed as a bride from the “Blue God” ballet.

Anna Pavlova, 1913

Vera Fokina in Carnival, 1914

Vera Kholodnaya, 1918.