Chess game between the Red Army (black) and the Red Fleet (white). July 20, 1924
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Retro photographs of Russia

Retro photographs of Russia
Chess game between the Red Army (black) and the Red Fleet (white). July 20, 1924. Retro photographs of Russia

Retro photographs of Russia
Live Chess game between the Red Army (black) and the Red Fleet (white). July 20, 1924. Red Army soldiers and sailors in the role of pawns, the riders on horses in their squares, combat crew moving on the chessboard portrayed chess game by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich. It was the fifth such experience of promoting chess. In 1921 such chess games were held in Smolensk, Kerch, Omsk and Moscow. The party lasted 5 hours and ended in a draw. The place of live chess game – The Palace Square in Leningrad.

Retro photographs of Russia
Chess game between the Red Army (black) and the Red Fleet (white). July 20, 1924.

Retro photographs of Russia

Retro photographs of Russia
1915 Military Unit, Leisure
Retro photographs of Russia
All in line to the Mausoleum, 1935
Retro photographs of Russia
Day of white daisies – the day of collection of contributions to the fight against tuberculosis, 1912
confiscated church property
confiscated Mitra, 1921
confiscated church property
Red Army soldiers endure church values, 1923. Closure of the Simonov Monastery in Moscow.
Discontinued church bells, Zaporozhye, 1931
Discontinued church bells, Zaporozhye, 1931
Retro photographs of Russia
Family of merchant Polenov. 1910. Shot during the Red Terror in 1918
Fire-fighters, the Moscow fire brigade, 1913
Fire-fighters, the Moscow fire brigade, 1913
Retro photographs of Russia
Horse tram, 1900, Pskov, Velikolutskaya street. photographer M.I.Gerasimov.
parade
The parade of inflatable houses on Red Square, 1931
Nicholas 1894
Nicholas 1894
Flood in Moscow, 1927
Flood in Moscow, 1927
Nicholas Romanov in Japan, 1890
Nicholas Romanov in Japan, 1890
Kremlin eagles
removed from Kremlin eagles, 1935
Photo by Arcady Shaikht
The attendant at the fungus, 1925, Photo by Arcady Shaikht
Exhibition
The Fourth International Automobile Exhibition in St. Petersburg, 1913
Women on the Volga boatmen, 1900
Women pulling the heavy boat on the Volga, 1900
Mamlakat Nakhangova
Mamlakat Nakhangova and Stalin

Mamlakat Nakhangova – participant of the Stakhanovite movement in the USSR. The youngest and the first holder of the pioneers of the highest order of the USSR – the Order of Lenin, who received it at the age of 11, for harvesting (collecting per day 70-80 pounds against the adult rate 13-15 kg). Author – Boris Ignatovich.

Lenin Mausoleum
second wooden Lenin Mausoleum

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