A look into the past: color photographs of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century

One and a half thousand photographs of Indian tribes taken at the beginning of the 20th century

Edward Sheriff Curtis is an American photographer who, in the early 20th century, studied the life of North American Indians with enthusiasm. In total, he took several thousand photographs, which captured the life of the indigenous population of the American continent, in addition, he created a detailed description of food, housing, clothing, rituals and customs of the Indians, wrote many biographical sketches about the traditions and history of Indian tribes

5 Russian beautiful silent film actresses who were admired by the world at the beginning of the 20th century

Only 100 years ago, cinema was still ahead. Young art was just beginning its grandiose march. The popularity that the very first movie stars had cannot even be compared with the popularity of modern actors. There were not so many of them, they were the first sex symbols of a new era, sometimes they were simply idolized. The first film stars of our country, even a century later, cause real admiration

Colorful photographs of Prokudin-Gorsky, taken at the beginning of the 20th century

Prokudin-Gorsky left Russia in 1918, first to Norway and England, and then finally to France. By that time, the tsar and his family were shot, and the empire, which Prokudin-Gorsky so carefully captured, was destroyed. His unique depictions of Russia on the eve of the revolution - made on glass negatives - were purchased from his heirs by the Library of Congress in 1948. For this exhibition, glass plates were scanned, and as a result of the application of a new digital process

Underworld: 23 photographs of people who were brought before the law at the beginning of the 20th century

“Do not renounce your wallet and prison” - this expression comes to mind when you see these archival photographs of convicts. Behind each photograph is someone's broken fate, someone's life that didn't work out, someone's tragedy. And today, looking at the photographs of these people, one can only guess what they were guided by when they went to the crimes

Retro ethnographic photographs about the life and life of foreigners at the beginning of the 20th century (part 2)

Foreigners in the Russian Empire were a special category of subjects and differed from the rest of the population of the empire both in methods of government and in rights. In everyday life, this term was applied to all Russian subjects of non-Slavic origin, and at the legislative level, only to ethnic groups strictly defined in the law (by the way, Tatars, Mordovians, Estonians were not counted among foreigners). In this review, old photos about the life and life of foreigners in Russia