History

Russian peasants getting electricity for the first time in 1920

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Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova and Swan

Anna Pavlova, (January 31, 1881 - January 23, 1931) was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognized for the creation of the role The Dying Swan and, with her own company, became the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world.

Source: ballerinagallery | wikipedia

Vintage Museum

One of the Dining Rooms

Baron Alexander von Stieglitz (1814–1884) was a Russian philanthropist and banker. He was the first governor of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, the predecessor organization to today’s Central Bank of the Russian Federation.  Photographs shown here how successful financiers of the nineteenth century used to live in Russia. (second photo shows one of the Living Rooms)

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Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet

Russian actors Nikolai Osipovich Massalitinov and Olga Knipper (wife of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov) as Claudius and Gertrude in Edward Gordon Craig and Constantin Stanislavski's production of Hamlet (1911)

Source: Edward Gordon Craig by Innes | wikimedia

Vintage Postcard

Tango. NEP private soviet postcard 1920s 

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Lydia Lopokova

 Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (born Lidia Vasilyevna Lopukhova) (21 October 1892 - 8 June 1981; Russian, was a famous Russian ballerina during the early 20th century.

Source: ballets russes