The Color Of Russian History: Beautiful Vintage Colorized Pictures Of The Imperial Russia By Olga Shirnina
William Carrick “The milk seller (Okhtenka)” St. Petersburg, 1860s
With an artist’s eye and a surgeon’s precision, Olga Shirnina – who works under the name Color By Klimbim (previously) – uses Photoshop to breathe new life into black-and-white photos from Russian history.
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Institute for noble maidens, Irkutsk
Schoolboys, 1900s, Russia
Anton Chekhov, 1901
Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia
Three sisters, Russia, 1900s
The Romanov children
Russian nurse, WWI
Sisters of mercy
Mathilde Kschessinska in “Camargo”
Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, 1913
James Fillis, Officer Cavalry School
Herbovets community
1906. Tsar Nicholas II at the opening ceremony of the First Duma, St. Petersburg
Galina Ulanova
Pavlov’s dog
Grand Duchess Olga
Association of Itinerant, 1899
Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1910
Anton Chekhov
Gorky, Andreeva, Nordman-Severova, Repin. Kuokkala, 1905
Grand Duchess Olga
Romanov sisters, 1916
Maria Feodorovna with children
Empress Alexandra’s maid of honor Anna Taneyeva (left) and her sister Alexandra Taneyeva (in costumes for the Russian ball), 1903
Alexandra Feodorovna and Tatiana Nikolaevna
Gatchina, 1912
Zenaida Yusupova
Prince Felix Yusupov and Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark in costume
Confirmation in the Church of St. Louis of the French in Moscow
Young Stalin
Country side Bykovo, 1910s
Peasant woman stands on wooden jetty next to river carrying two buckets of water on yoke, a young girl also stands on the jetty, Russia 1900s
Grand Duchess Olga, 1912
Portrait of Anna Stepanovna Lavrovskaya (daughter of Stepan Dmitrievich Lavrovsky), beginning of the 20th century.
Baths near the village of Olszyna
Emperor Nicholas II on a walk in the park of the Alexander Palace. Tsarskoye Selo, June 1917. Amateur filming of Grand Duchess Maria.
Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, 1917
Luzhniki, Old Moscow
Nuns on garden works in front of the Church of the Life-bearing Source in the village of Ponetaevka
Alexandra Feodorovna, 1914
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
The arrival of Emperor Nicholas II at the location of the 1st Army of General A.I. Litvinov, January 30, 1916, Dvinsk district.
Grand Duchesses of Russia Olga and Tatiana
Grand Duchess Maria
Vasily Zvyozdochkin – creator of the Russian Matryoshka dol
Mathilde Kschessinska
Grand Duchess Olga
S. A. S. la Princesse Galitzine, née Comtesse Moussine-Pouchkine (Femme de boyard du XVII siècle)
Grand Duchesses
Athlete Ivan Poddubny
Nikolai Rodionov, Senior Lieutenant of the Russian Imperial Guards Equipage
Grand Duchess Maria
Church of the Intercession at Fili in Moscow
La Comtesse Karlow, nee Vonlarsky (Femme de boyard du XVII siecle)
Tamara Karsavina as Columbine in “Carnaval”
Tamara Karsavina in Schéhérazade
Moscow, Ostozhenka street, 1890s
GD Anastasia
Alexandra Feodorovna
Nurse WWI
Nicholas II in old russian falconer costume
Monk, 1897
Epiphany Church on Gutuevsky Island (Saint Petersburg)
Elisabet Amélie Hélène Linder nee de Fontenilliat in Russian court dress
Russian peasant girls, 1914
