The pearl of Russian literature: Documentary photographs from the life of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (20 photos)

Documentary photographs of the great photographer and father of photojournalism Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson is a legendary man and the father of photojournalism, a French photographer, without whom it is impossible to imagine the photography of the 20th century. He was the founder of the street photography genre. His black and white photographs reflect the history, atmosphere, breath and rhythm of life of an entire era, and hundreds of modern photographers study in his photographs

Historical photographs that vividly tell about the life and life of ordinary Russian people in the 19th century

Old photographs are a real time machine that can take you 100 years or even more back. It is thanks to old photographs that you understand what life was like for people in the distant past. And if you carefully consider the details, then such photographs can tell no less than history textbooks

Documentary photos of the "life" of Chinese trains by Wang Fuchun

A train is a small life, a strange intersection of dozens of disparate destinies, a vacuum in which absolutely strangers must coexist for a certain time. Here, as in the eternal "carriage dispute": "one says our life is a train, the other says it is a platform." Wang Fuchun offers a glimpse of the reserved seat reality of the people of China in the documentary photo cycle. Having worked for many years on the railway, he has collected a unique collection of pictures in which people smile, despite the everyday

The pearl of Russian poetry: rare photographs of the great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin

Sergei Yesenin went from a village boy-cherub to the most famous swearing man and rowdy. When the blue-eyed shepherd read poems about the joys of rural life, the girls screamed "Dushka Yesenin." But "cockerels and bast shoes" did not occupy him for long. On the wall of the Passionate Monastery, he wrote obscene verses and melted the samovar with torches from a disengaged icon. But for all the shocking personality of Yesenin, his poems are a special page of Russian poetry. This review contains photographs of various

Documentary photographs about life in the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s

The 1920s of the last century were very difficult for Russia. The established foundations were broken, a new state took on life, and this breaking of the old regime was, of course, not painless. It was at that time that such words as dispossession, repression, comradely court entered the history of society and the country. Old photographs allow you to imagine how people lived at that time