Ballet dancers in a scene from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake staged at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, now of Russia.01.01.1950#854874
Ballerina Sofya Golovkina as Tsar Maiden in Rodion Shchedrin's ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse, based on the eponymous fairy tale by Pyotr Yershov and staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of USSR (now of Russia).04.06.1948#8543390
Actors from left: Mikhail Kuznetsov as Fyodor Basmanov, Pavel Kadochnikov as Vladimir Staritsky and Nikolai Cherkasov as Ivan the Terrible in a scene from Sergei Eisenstein's movie Ivan the Terrible, 1944. Photocopy.01.10.1944#579276
Nikolai Cherkasov as Ivan the Terrible in a scene from Sergei Eisenstein's movie Ivan the Terrible, 1944. Photocopy.01.10.1944#579255
Illusionist Emil Kio on the arena of the Moscow Circus (today's Nikulin Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoi Boulevard). Circus act "Sawing," 1939.24.05.1939#5632858
Illusionist Emil Kio performs with his troupe on the arena of the Moscow Circus (today's Nikulin Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoi Boulevard). Moscow, 1939.24.05.1939#5632551
Illusionist Emil Kio performs with his troupe on the arena of the Moscow Circus (today's Nikulin Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoi Boulevard). Moscow, 1939.24.05.1939#5632550
On the set of the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, directed by Sergei Eisenstein at Mosfilm Studio. In this photo, makeup artists are working on the image of hauberk-maker Ignat portrayed by actor Dmitry Orlov, center.01.10.1938#8556584
On the set of the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, directed by Sergei Eisenstein at Mosfilm Studio. Starring actor Nikolai Cherkasov, left, as Prince Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky.01.10.1938#8556558
Actors in a scene from Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in 1927. A reproduction of a photo from Moscow's Bakhrushin State Theater Museum.10.05.1927#712319
Actors in a scene from Vladimir Bill-Belotserkovsky's play The Storm staged at the Moscow Governorate Trade Union Council Theater in 1925. A reproduction of the photo courtesy of Moscow's Bakhrushin State Theater Museum archives.01.10.1925#676862
A scene from Modest Mussorgsky's opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi staged at the Bolshoi Theater in 1925. A photo courtesy of museum of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR.01.04.1925#623450
Vsevolod Meyerhold State Theater. A scene from Fernand Crommelynck's play "The magnificent cuckold." The play directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold and premiered on April 25, 1922. A photo from the collection of the Bakhrushin State Theater Museum.15.11.1922#5700336
Actors in a scene from the play Princess Turandot staged by 3rd Studio at the Moscow Art Theater, now the Vakhtangov Moscow State Academic Theater, in 1922. Photo courtesy of the Bakhrushin State Central Theater Museum archive.27.02.1922#672689
Leonid Sobinov, principal singer at Bolshoi Theater (now State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia), as Lensky in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera "Eugene Onegin," 1900.01.01.1900#6684036