"Hello, virgin land": 25 color photographs about the life of virgin lands from the archive of the magazine "Ogonyok"

As the heiress of the French aristocrats, she defended besieged Leningrad and painted sketches on the virgin lands: Irina Vitman

The fate of the Soviet artist Irina Vitman is full of contrasts. Childhood spent in bohemian Paris - and the defense of besieged Leningrad. Dreams of conquering the Arctic, traveling the world - and twenty years of a happy life in a deep province. And also - constant artistic experiments behind the screen of socialist realism. Irina Vitman did not rebel, did not go underground and did not create a new Soviet avant-garde, just as she was not a "socialist realist" artist. She just lived by painting

The collector has collected a unique archive of photographs about life in the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th - early 20th centuries

In 1964, the Frenchman Pierre de Jigorde first came to Istanbul, and was fascinated by this city. He was engaged in trade, and also bought old photographs from local residents and collectors. As a result, he became the owner of a unique archive, the photographs of which date from 1853 to 1930. In total, there are 6,000 photographs in his collection, the names of the authors of which are forever lost. Recently, a significant part of this archive was made publicly available on the Internet

A story in color: a dozen black and white photographs in color

We have already fallen in love with photo projects combining photographs of the past and the present. But story fans from the ColorizedHistory community love a colored story. Rather, the work of professional artists who approach their work in a complex way: they rely on historical information, aesthetic preferences and their own taste, when they return the color to old black and white photographs. They return it, because life "then" was also full of bright, saturated color as it is now

20 photographs of iconic figures of Soviet rock from the personal archive of Joanna Stingray

On the personal website of the American singer Joanna Stingray, hundreds of archival photographs have appeared, which depict the stars of Russian rock. Joanna has been to the USSR and Russia more than once and has become one of the world's most famous popularizers of Soviet and post-Soviet rock. The photographs show Boris Grebenshchikov, Viktor Tsoi, Alexander Bashlachev, Sergei Kuryokhin, Konstantin Kinchev, Mike Naumenko and many other famous musicians

Back to the USSR: 15 photographs from the 1950s from the Ogonyok magazine

The 1950s in the USSR are a time of restoration of the country, a time of hopes and a time of renewal. In the photographs of that time, happy people who survived the horrors of war and are ready for peaceful creation. The photographs collected in this review were at one time published in the Ogonyok magazine, and we must admit that they have some kind of special energy