A Russian and Soviet poet, author of visual and other experimental textx, founder of contemporary Russian palindrome Dmitry Yevgenievich Avaliani (1938-2003) and his sister Natalia as children.18.09.1943#5640405
The 12th Soviet Chess Championship. The Moscow Conservatory's Great Hall, September 5-October 3, 1940. A game of chess between Igor Bondarevsky, left, and Andor Lilienthal.14.09.1940#5586232
The 12th Soviet Chess Championship. The Moscow Conservatory's Great Hall, September 5-October 3, 1940. A game of chess between Vasily Smyslov (Moscow), and Paul Keres.14.09.1940#5586231
The 12th Soviet Chess Championship. The Moscow Conservatory's Great Hall, September 5-October 3, 1940. A game of chess between Igor Bondarevsky (sitting in the center), and Mark Taimanov (left, center, standing).14.09.1940#5586230
The 12th Soviet Chess Championship. The Moscow Conservatory's Great Hall, September 5-October 3, 1940. A game of chess between Igor Bondarevsky, left, and Andor Lilienthal.14.09.1940#5586229
The 12th Soviet Chess Championship. The Moscow Conservatory's Great Hall, September 5-October 3, 1940. A game of chess between Igor Bondarevsky, left, and Andor Lilienthal. Chess player Alexander Konstantinopolsky (Kiev) is watching over the players.14.09.1940#5586228
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940. Chess player Vasily Smyslov during a match against Andre (Andor) Lilienthal.13.09.1940#5779623
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940.13.09.1940#5779622
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940.13.09.1940#5779621
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940. Chess player Andre (Andor) Lilienthal during a match against Igor Bondarevsky.13.09.1940#5779620
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940. Before the tournament.13.09.1940#5779619
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940. Chess player Andre (Andor) Lilienthal.15.09.1939#5779624
Village children. Bolshevik State Grain Farm, Serpukhovsky District, Moscow Region. 1939.16.04.1939#5753704
A playbill of the 1937 chess game between famous musicians, composer Sergei Prokofyev and violinist David Oistrakh. Due to the start of Oistrakh's tour, only six rounds out of ten were held. Central House of Arts and Culture.09.11.1937#418218
Izmailovo Park of Culture and Leisure named after Stalin (now Izmailovo Park) in Moscow is a main recreation zone for people in Moscow.29.08.1937#8548302
Izmailovo Park of Culture and Leisure named after Stalin (now Izmailovo Park) in Moscow is a main recreation zone for people in Moscow.29.08.1937#8548276
A scene from the film 'We are from Kronshtadt' based on the play of the same name by Soviet playwright Vsevolod Vishnevsky. Mofilm Studios. 1936. Filmmaker Efim Dzigan. Actor Vasily Zaichikov (left) in the role of Commissar Martynov; actor Grigory Bushuyev in the role of sailor Balashov.13.07.1936#5750923
The 3rd international chess tournament, Moscow. The game between Jose Capablanca and Emanual Lasker. 1936. A reproduction.22.05.1936#845149
Academician Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, winner of the 1904 Novel Prize in medicine and physiology. Academician Pavlov playing gorodki (similar to skittles).01.06.1929#3078790
The 1925 International Chess Tournament held at the Fountain Hall of the Second House of Soviets (now Metropol Hotel) between November 10 and December 8, 1925, in Moscow. Cuban chess player and 1921 world champion Jose Raul Capablanca, left, plays against former world champion, German chess player Emanuel Lasker.01.11.1925#6517528
People's Commissar (Minister) of Foreign Trade of the RSFSR and Soviet Plenipotentiary and Trade Envoy to the United Kingdom Leonid Krasin plays golf in the courtyard of the Soviet Embassy in London.07.05.1922#5851566
Writer Leo Tolstoy playing gorodki in his estate Yasnaya Polyana. 1909. Photo from the Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow. 23.04.1909#158565
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, foreground left, plays chess at Yasnaya Polyana, 1908. Center: Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstaya. A reproduction photo.01.09.1908#2328279
Figure skater Nikolai Panin-Kolomensky, the first Russian gold-medal winner at the 4th Olympic Games in London.01.01.1908#57677
First International Olympic Committee members, Athens, April 10, 1896. From left, foreground: the initiator of the modern Olympic Games, IOC President Pierre de Coubertin; the first IOC President (1894-1986), Greek philologist Demetrios Vikelas; and sports official, one of the IOC founders and member Alexei Butovsky. From left, background: German doctor Willibald Gebhardt, one of the founders of the IOC; Professor Jiri Guth-Jarkovsky (Bohemia), founder and secretary of the Hungarian National Olympic Committee; writer Ferenc Kemeny and Swedish athlete Viktor Gustaf Balck.10.04.1896#6531411
