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



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