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Kuznetsky Most street, here
We have already published some photo galleries of Moscow from the 1980s and 1960s. Now a great leap follows back in time, to the beginning of the 1930s.
The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Kamenny Most, here
The Library of the University of California in 1971 received the photo legacy of photographer and travelogue lecturer Branson DeCou from his heirs. Between 1921 and 1941 DeCou traveled all over the world, and took about 8 thousand glass slides, not only on the historical monuments but also on the everyday life of the visited cities. He then regularly held presentations with projected slides in various cities of the USA. The library has recently started the digitization of the hand-colored slides.
The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Most, here
Russian blogger Nikolas11 over the past few days looked over the already digitized material and picked out the photos representing Moscow. In addition, he also placed them, with a laborious work, on the map of the collective site “The photos of Old Moscow”. The links “here” in the following captions lead you to the respective point of the map.
The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Most, here
These pictures are unique not only because of their fascinating atmosphere or the attentive representation of street life and faces. But also because perhaps this was the last moment when the old Moscow could be seen still intact and without the erosion of the following decades. Stalin had just recently blocked the new economic policy announced ten years earlier, and the period of collectivization and repressions as well as of the Socialist transformation of Moscow began. On almost each of the following pictures we see – for the last time – monuments that did not survive the end of the 30s.
The Mosvkoretskaya street and the Vasilevsky spusk from the Moskvoretsky bridge, here
Kremlin, Granovitaya Palace, here
Kremlin, the Blagoveschensky (Annunciation) cathedra, here
The Great Ivan bell tower, here
The Red Square, here
The GUM supermarket, here
Resurrection or Iversky gate (destroyed in 1931), here
Sverdlov (Theatre) square, here
Teatralny proezd towards the Lubyanka, here
The CUM supermarket, here
The Second Moscow Art Theatre (then Central Children’s Theatre), here
TORGSIN, the “foreign currency” shop for foreigners (1931-36), here
Ohotny Ryad street, here
The Soviet square, here
Agitation poster for the five years plan on the Soviet square, here
Soviet square, Lenin Institute, here
Strastnaya square (where the giant lion was sleeping), here
Tversky square, with the still standing New Triumphal Gate, here
The Christ Savior cathedral, blown up in 1931, here
The Christ Savior cathedral, here
The Novodevichi monastery, here
The Pyatnitsa street with the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa church (destroyed in 1935), here
The Resurrection of Christ church in SokolnikiA szokolnyiki Krisztus Feltámadása-templom, here
Tower of the Church of St. Pantelemon of Athos, here
Anti-NEP propaganda
“Fire Protection Propaganda Station”
Sukharev Tower, blown up in 1934, here
The Vladimir Gate on Lubyanka square, destroyed in 1934, here
House of Culture of the “Kauchuk” factory, here
The “Zuev” House of Culture, here
The “Rusakov” Workers’ Club, here
Moiseevskaya square, here
Tram station on the Moiseevskaya square, here
New car in old Moscow, here
Foreigners taking photos at MosTorg, here
Foreigner taking photos, here
Kvas and mors (berry beer) seller, here
“A better customer service for the workers!”, here
Manifestation along Krasnoprudnaya street, here
Perhaps the interior of the TORGSIN (foreign currency shop), here
Queue in front of the shop of Armenian drinks along the Pyatnitsa street, here
Birzhevaya square, here
Sokolniki, Green theatre, here
Sylvester Stallone’s father selling foreign currency at the wall of Kitaigorod :) here
“Soyuzpechat”, newspaper seller at the wall of Kitaigorod, here
Taxi station at the Leningrad railway station, here
Carter along the Strominka, here
Worker’s Canteen Nº. 1, here
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Kuznetsky Most street, hereWe have already published some photo galleries of Moscow from the 1980s and 1960s. Now a great leap follows back in time, to the beginning of the 1930s.
The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Kamenny Most, hereThe Library of the University of California in 1971 received the photo legacy of photographer and travelogue lecturer Branson DeCou from his heirs. Between 1921 and 1941 DeCou traveled all over the world, and took about 8 thousand glass slides, not only on the historical monuments but also on the everyday life of the visited cities. He then regularly held presentations with projected slides in various cities of the USA. The library has recently started the digitization of the hand-colored slides.
The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Most, hereRussian blogger Nikolas11 over the past few days looked over the already digitized material and picked out the photos representing Moscow. In addition, he also placed them, with a laborious work, on the map of the collective site “The photos of Old Moscow”. The links “here” in the following captions lead you to the respective point of the map.
The Kremlin from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Most, hereThese pictures are unique not only because of their fascinating atmosphere or the attentive representation of street life and faces. But also because perhaps this was the last moment when the old Moscow could be seen still intact and without the erosion of the following decades. Stalin had just recently blocked the new economic policy announced ten years earlier, and the period of collectivization and repressions as well as of the Socialist transformation of Moscow began. On almost each of the following pictures we see – for the last time – monuments that did not survive the end of the 30s.
The Mosvkoretskaya street and the Vasilevsky spusk from the Moskvoretsky bridge, here
Kremlin, Granovitaya Palace, here
Kremlin, the Blagoveschensky (Annunciation) cathedra, here
The Great Ivan bell tower, here
The Red Square, here
The GUM supermarket, here
Resurrection or Iversky gate (destroyed in 1931), here
Sverdlov (Theatre) square, here
Teatralny proezd towards the Lubyanka, here
The CUM supermarket, here
The Second Moscow Art Theatre (then Central Children’s Theatre), here
TORGSIN, the “foreign currency” shop for foreigners (1931-36), here
Ohotny Ryad street, here
The Soviet square, here
Agitation poster for the five years plan on the Soviet square, here
Soviet square, Lenin Institute, here
Strastnaya square (where the giant lion was sleeping), here
Tversky square, with the still standing New Triumphal Gate, here
The Christ Savior cathedral, blown up in 1931, here
The Christ Savior cathedral, here
The Novodevichi monastery, here
The Pyatnitsa street with the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa church (destroyed in 1935), here
The Resurrection of Christ church in SokolnikiA szokolnyiki Krisztus Feltámadása-templom, here
Tower of the Church of St. Pantelemon of Athos, here
Anti-NEP propaganda
“Fire Protection Propaganda Station”
Sukharev Tower, blown up in 1934, here
The Vladimir Gate on Lubyanka square, destroyed in 1934, here
House of Culture of the “Kauchuk” factory, here
The “Zuev” House of Culture, here
The “Rusakov” Workers’ Club, here
Moiseevskaya square, here
Tram station on the Moiseevskaya square, here
New car in old Moscow, here
Foreigners taking photos at MosTorg, here
Foreigner taking photos, here
Kvas and mors (berry beer) seller, here
“A better customer service for the workers!”, here
Manifestation along Krasnoprudnaya street, here
Perhaps the interior of the TORGSIN (foreign currency shop), here
Queue in front of the shop of Armenian drinks along the Pyatnitsa street, here
Birzhevaya square, here
Sokolniki, Green theatre, here
Sylvester Stallone’s father selling foreign currency at the wall of Kitaigorod :) here
“Soyuzpechat”, newspaper seller at the wall of Kitaigorod, here
Taxi station at the Leningrad railway station, here
Carter along the Strominka, here
Worker’s Canteen Nº. 1, heremagyarul
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