The all-union festival of rural amateur folk groups at Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in Moscow. Participants in the festival, who arrived from the country's various regions, territories and autonomous republics, during a tour in the Moscow Kremlin's Armory Chamber.29.03.1954#8541535
The all-union festival of rural amateur folk groups at Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in Moscow. Participants in the festival, who arrived from the country's various regions, territories and autonomous republics, during a tour in the Moscow Kremlin Museum.29.03.1954#8541530
The all-union festival of rural amateur folk groups at Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in Moscow. Participants in the festival, who arrived from the country's various regions, territories and autonomous republics, during a tour in the Moscow Kremlin's Armory Chamber.29.03.1954#8541518
The Central Market on Tsvetnoi Boulevard in Moscow. Weighing up carcasses delivered by collective farm workers.11.02.1954#8541461
Korean national An Song Hi, a student of the Choreography School of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, now the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, rehearses a Spanish dance.01.02.1954#8129212
Moscow family on a day off. Father reading short stories by Anton Chekhov to his children before the evening tea.05.08.1953#5604985
Moscow family on a day off. Father reading short stories by Anton Chekhov to his children before the evening tea.05.08.1953#5604984
The Neftyaniye Kamni (Oil Rocks) oil deposit in the Azerbaijani SSR. Photo: Radio transceiver operator Anna Kovalchuk communicates with the mainland.01.06.1953#8132209
The Open House day at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Schoolchildren in a university lab.29.05.1953#5514750
Exhibition of applied art and art industry works in the USSR Academy of Arts. Kitchen set manufactured by "Gorodetskaya rospis" (Gorodetskaya painting) factory.01.01.1952#3325209
Exhibition of applied art and art industry works in the USSR Academy of Arts. Tea set. Dulyovo porcelain factory.01.01.1952#3325208
Exhibition of applied art and art industry works in the USSR Academy of Arts. Kokhloma painting.01.01.1952#3325207
Exhibition of applied art and art industry works in the USSR Academy of Arts. Bird-dipper, Kokhloma painting.01.01.1952#3325206
The National Balneotherapy Institute of the USSR Healthcare Ministry (now National Medical Research Center of Rehabilitation and Balneotherapy). Powerful thermal and balneological equipment help thousands of patients use artificial radon gas, seawater and ozone baths as well as mud and water treatment and physical therapy, without leaving Moscow.01.06.1951#8546728
Interior of the sitting room in the Stanislavsky Home Museum (now a branch of the Moscow Museum of Art Academic Theater).01.06.1948#3319522
Soviet ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya in the dressing room before the entrance. The Bolshoi Theatre.01.03.1948#939217
A state commission carrying out an investigation at the Royal Castle in Konigsberg where the vanished Amber Room (the 18th century) was last exhibited in 1942-1944. 1946.01.09.1946#799266
The Nuremberg Trials were international trials of former leaders of Nazi Germany. They took place from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946 at the International Military Tribunal in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg after the end of World War II. Leaders of Nazi Germany during a lunch break in Nuremberg (left to right, in a circle): Alfred Rosenberg, Hermann Goering, Karl Dönitz, Walther Funk, Baldur von Schirach.10.12.1945#8742148
Commander-in-chief of the Yugoslav People's Army, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, centre, and members of staff on the island of Vis. Summer 1944. Copy of the photo of TANJUG information agency. World War II.01.06.1944#669784
"Artists at rest", oil on canvas, the 1840s. Reproduction by V.Cheredintsev, 1962, now displayed at the State History Museum.01.01.1941#412364
"Life For The Tsar" ("Ivan Susanin") by M. Glinka staged at the Bolshoi. Russian singer Elizaveta Antonova (1904-1994).10.11.1940#924115
A doctor’s appointment at the health facility in the village of Koltsovka of the Stalin Collective Farm in the Vurnarsky District of Chuvashia, 1940.10.10.1940#5749528
Soviet ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya attends a training session. Left: Choregographer Asaf Messerer.01.06.1938#940114
Blast furnace operators of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works undergo a crash course for Stakhanovite workers at a technical school.01.10.1937#6094912
Stakhanovtsy of the turbine room of Leningrad engineering plant operating a vertical lathe.18.06.1936#19508
Red Army guards examine the Siemens-Martin room during a tour around Petrovsky Metallurgical Plant.16.11.1933#21826
A Soviet-era campaign to eliminate all-out illiteracy in the countryside throughout the 1930s. Rural adults undergo a literacy course. The peasants realized that a new life was underway, and it was no longer possible to do without literacy.19.07.1931#8928384
The place of honor in a house which used to belong to a kulak. Collectivization in Ukraine. 01.12.1929#25707
The 1920s. The reading room at the Library of the New Philology Institute, now the Rudomino All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature. Photo courtesy of the album Moscow and Muscovites, property of the State History Museum.01.06.1922#6681607
Students of Peasant University after a lecture. Petrograd, 1919. From the funds of the Central State Documentary Film, Photo and Audio Archive of the USSR. Reproduction of a photo.01.10.1919#637792
Ipatiev villa: one of the rooms in which the royal family lived during the arrest. . 01.07.1918#79495
The study of Nicholas II in the Moscow Kremlin on the days of the October 1917 revolution.09.11.1917#86205
Sculptor Pavel Trubetskoi sculpts writer Leo Tolstoy's bust at Tolstoy's estate in Yasnaya Polyana. 1899.28.08.1899#6430933
Leo Tolstoy, his family members and guests are seen at Yasnaya Polyana. Photo courtesy of the Leo Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow.29.09.1892#8775520
Russian author Leo N. Tolstoy (second left) in the bosom of his family.Yasnaya Polyana.1887.Reproduction of photo by M.A.Stakhovich.State Museum of Leo Tolstoy in Moscow.28.02.1887#636158