Incredibly Colorized Pictures Show The Life Of Russian People In The Past

Here is an incredible collection of colorized vintage photos that shoe the life of old Russian people in the past.

h/t: vintag.es

A man with a group of Russian children

A Russian man stand by a Ford-A made in the USSR, 1930

A young Russian bride, 1903

Group of the Sisters of Charity in the dining room during lunch, the Herbovets community, ca. 1900s

Gymnasium girls, Imperial Russia

Jose Raul Capablanca vs Alexander Alekhine, 1913

Reaper, 1914-16

‘Red corner’ at a recruiting station, Galich, Kostroma Region, 1931

Russian ballet dancer Galina Ulanova in Swan Lake, ca. 1930s

Russian family, Ekaterinburg region, Siberia in the late 19th century

Russian wrestler Karl Pospischil, 1912

Soviet athletes in Moscow, 1937

The first passengers of the Moscow metro, 1935

Worker and supervisor, car factory, Moscow, USSR, 1954

Yuri Gagarin with his Matra Bonnet Djet VS coupe, 1965

Russian sniper Roza Shanina

Russian soldiers in Berlin 1945

Alexander Kerensky

Olga and Tatiana Romanov

Grigori Rasputin

Pilots and air-gunners of the 566th Assault Aviation Regiment, 1944

Tashkent 30s

Nicholas II of Russia in the uniform of the Life-Guards 4th The Imperial Family’s Rifle Regiment, 1912

Combat medic, marine infantry, 1943

Soviet sailors raise the USSR’s naval ensign over Port-Artur in 1945

Family Nicholas II of Russia, 1914

Ekaterina Maksimova was a world-famous Soviet and Russian ballet dancer

Russian actor Nikolai Rybnikov in “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” (1956)

Anton Chekhov

Berlin 1945

Nikolay Felixovich Yusupov (1883–1908), Prince Nicholas, eldest son of Princess Zenaida and Prince Felix Youssoupoff. Killed in a duel in 1908

Berlin 1945

Arseny Tarkovsky

Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Soviet sniper during World War II. Credited with 309 kills, she is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Vysotsky

Osip Mandelshtam

La Comtesse Elisabeth Moussine-Pouchkine, née Comtesse Capnist (Femme de boyard du XVII siècle)

Natalia Meklin (Kravtsova), Sofia Burzaeva, Polina Gelman, 1943

Anti tank artillery soldiers

Saint John of Kronstadt

The last projectile

Unknown russian pilot during the WWI

Combat medic Valentina Sokolova, July 1943

German embassy in St. Petersburg, 1913

Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, 1906

Lenin

Mikhail Bulgakov

Soviet soldiers are monitoring the movement of German troops near Sevastopol, Crimea, 1941

Russian soldiers pose before the attack, 1916

Tank driver Mikhail Smirnov, 1944

Tank driver Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirnov, after the fight. During the attack on the German positions, an anti-tank shell hit in the forehead of T-34 and killed all the crew members except Mikhail Smirnov. Smirnov burst with his T-34 into the German positions, crushed three anti-tank guns and destroyed another 30 enemy soldiers and officers from the machine gun. Picture taken January 17, 1944, in the Leningrad region. Mikhail Smirnov was killed in action six months later in Latvia, on July 29, 1944.

Squadron commander of the 6th separate Guards Attack Aviation Regiment Captain Ivan Musienko at the Il-2 during the WWII

Russian Lydia Litvyak during the WWII

Air squadron commander of the 124th Fighter regiment Alexander Pronin, 1942

Sergei Esenin

Pilgrim

The picture is taken by Maxim P Dmitriev – one of the founders of the photojournalism genre – who was a member of the Russian Photographic Society.

Grigori Rasputin