Faces of emigration: 15 expressive retro portraits of emigrants who arrived in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century

What they wrote in marriage announcements at the beginning of the 20th century: "Respond, love, we will open the dining room" and other tempting offers

Nowadays, the myth is widespread that young people only meet through dating sites and apps, while previous generations simply waited for love to overtake them, like lightning, anywhere. In fact, men and women of the past used aids in the same way when they got tired of waiting for love to catch up

How the Russians made a splash in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century: Pottery from Abramtsevo by master Vaulin

In 1900, at the World Exhibition in Paris, the majolica by the Russian master Pyotr Vaulin made a big splash. His ceramics were called “music in plastic and color” and were awarded the highest award. These masterpieces were born at a ceramic enterprise in Abramtsevo - under the tutelage of the patron Savva Mamontov and in a creative tandem with Mikhail Vrubel. Nowadays, works from Vaulin's workshops can be seen not only in museums. Ceramic masterpieces have been preserved on the walls of buildings in different parts of Russia

How the “paper Internet” appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, and Why the project collapsed

There are many ways to fight for peace - one of them was proposed back in the 19th century by the Belgians Paul Atlet and Henri Lafontaine. Information and its availability for everyone - that is what, in their opinion, should have led humanity away from military conflicts to the idea of unification for the sake of knowledge, for the sake of a common movement towards progress and enlightenment. Otlet and La Fontaine came up with an amazing project that really united many and many, but, alas, destroyed by the war

Cemetery Picnic: Why Food and Relaxation at Burial Grounds in the 19th Century Became Fashion in the United States

For many people, the cemetery is associated exclusively with a place of sorrow and sorrow. But in the United States, only a century and a half ago, it was in the cemeteries that real picnics were held. And here young people met, relatives communicated with each other, and they just went to dinners arranged at family plots with the graves of the dead. This tradition was especially popular in the late 19th - early 20th centuries

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