Soviet Art, USSR culture

Hallmarking silver in the USSR how to read the signs on the marking

Assay Office building in Moscow. Hallmarking silver in the USSR.

Hallmarking of silver in the USSR has changed more than once in its history. Immediately after the revolution of 1917, most of the jewelry factories and workshops were closed in Russia. Fearing robberies, the owners of large and small enterprises fled abroad. Assay offices, which were previously engaged in hallmarking silver, ceased their work with the coming to power of the Bolsheviks.

Hallmarking of silver at the dawn of the USSR was of little concern to the Soviet government. The main goal of the authorities was the requisition of jewelry and their further sale abroad, since the state needed funds to finance the world revolution. The first steps to put things in order in the jewelry business were made in 1918, when a commission formed under the Council of People’s Commissars assumed control functions.

Nadezhda Rumyantseva Soviet actress

Nadezhda Vasilievna Rumyantseva is a Soviet actress who is widely known for her work in cinema. Despite her talent and charisma, she appeared on the stage only in her early years, after graduating from the institute.

Lyudmila Khityaeva People’s Artist of the RSFSR

The most amazing and brightest actress of Soviet cinema! Lyudmila Khityaeva

Nature generously endowed her with beauty and talent. She shone on screens since the late 50s, giving the audience vivid, memorable images of her heroines. Lyudmila Khityaeva was loved and loved by millions – for her simplicity, sincerity and cheerful disposition.

Valentina Talyzina Soviet actress

Valentina Talyzina has been working at the Theater im. Moscow City Council. She played in performances based on the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Ostrovsky, Tennessee Williams and Bertolt Brecht and in films by well-known Russian directors. Talyzina also voiced the heroine of Barbara Brylskaya in the film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!” and mother of Uncle Fyodor in the cartoon “Three from Prostokvashino”.

Actor Nikolai Karachentsov

Nikolai Karachentsov worked for almost 40 years at Lenkom (now the Moscow State Theater Lenkom Mark Zakharov). World fame brought him the role of Count Rezanov in the rock opera Juno and Avos. Films with the participation of Karachentsov were popular among domestic viewers: “The Elder Son”, “The Adventures of Electronics”, “The Man from the Capuchin Boulevard”. And the actor also learned to play the guitar with Vladimir Vysotsky and played tennis with Boris Yeltsin.

Anastasia Vertinskaya Soviet actress

Anastasia Vertinskaya became a famous actress when she was only 15 years old. She became famous for her roles in the films Scarlet Sails and Amphibian Man. Already at the age of 18, Vertinskaya was invited to the troupe of the Moscow Drama Theater. A.S. Pushkin. She starred in the films of Mikhail Kozakov, Georgy Danelia, Sergei Bondarchuk, played in the Moscow Art Theater and Sovremennik. Vertinskaya became known not only in the USSR, but also abroad, where she was considered the “Soviet Vivien Leigh”.

Yuri Petrovich Kugach

Yuri Petrovich Kugach was born in 1917 in Suzdal.

In 1936 he graduated from the Moscow Fine Art School in memory of 1905. He studied under N. P. Krymov and K. F. Morozov. In 1942 he graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute, in the same place in 1945 postgraduate studies with S. V. Gerasimov, N. K. Maksimov, I. E. Grabar.