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Soviet fashion model Mila Romanovskaya

Soviet fashion model Mila Romanovskaya in London at the Soviet exhibition next to the mock of the spacecraft Voskhod. August 1968

Soviet fashion model Mila Romanovskaya in London at the Soviet exhibition next to the mock of the spacecraft Voskhod. August 1968

In 1967 Soviet fashion model Mila Romanovskaya won the title of “Miss Russia” at the international fashion show. Famous soviet actor Andrei Mironov was in love with her, and outstanding Russian Soviet director Nikita Mikhalkov fought for her. She was the wife of the artist Yuri Cooper and friend of Joseph Brodsky. And she is a woman of her time, who independently built her own life. Exactly at the moment when she decided that freedom and solitude – the main advantages of this life, she met her greatest love. She was married three times, her third husband – businessman Douglas Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards live in the county of Hereford in a beautiful English house of the XVIII century with a small park.
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Greatest Soviet relic Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin

Greatest Soviet relic Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin

Greatest Soviet relic Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin

Greatest Soviet relic Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin. This architectural monument to Lenin – the revolutionary, thinker, leader is well known around the world. Lenin’s Mausoleum – the creation of an outstanding architect of our time Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev. The history of the Mausoleum was told in the memories of People’s Architect of the USSR D. Chechulin: “I remember the hard days of January 1924. Unprecedented frost, bonfires in the streets, endless queue to the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions, Alarm beeps, Crystal chandeliers in the Hall of Columns, black crepe, pain of irreparable loss… In those days, only once Shchusev appeared in the training workshop addressing to the students, and his colleagues, he said that he is extremely busy: in a matter of days and hours is necessary to build a temporary mausoleum.
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Soviet Twiggy Galya Milovskaya

Soviet Twiggy Galya Milovskaya

Fashion model of 1960s, Soviet Twiggy Galya Milovskaya

Soviet Twiggy Galya Milovskaya
The foreign press and people related to fashion called her “Soviet Twiggy”. She really looked like Twiggy in appearance, boyish figure and excessive thinness. Although Soviet Twiggy Galya Milovskaya dreamed of the theater, her life turned to be different. While still a student of the Shchukin Theater School, the beautiful girl began working as a fashion model at the Moscow Fashion House. A classmate invited her to try her hand in “demonstrating clothes”, as it was called, and Galina, without thinking twice, agreed. In the USSR she was considered rather skinny, because her weight barely reached the level of 42 kg with height 170 cm. In the Soviet Union it was considered that the model should be closer to the people, therefore, not too thin.
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Soviet artist Porphyry Krylov

Self portrait. Soviet artist Porphyry Krylov

Self portrait. Soviet artist Porphyry Krylov (9 August 1902 – 15 May 1990)

Soviet artist Porphyry Krylov (9 August 1902 – 15 May 1990) was a member of the creative team Kukryniksy. People’s Artist of the USSR (1958), member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1947), Laureate of Lenin (1965), five of Stalin (1942, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951), the USSR State Prize (1975), Hero of Socialist Labor (1972). Works by Soviet artist Porphyry Krylov were exhibited at many art exhibitions in Russia and abroad. They are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Art Museum in Tula, in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and other foreign museums and private collections.
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Soviet painter Larisa Kirillova

Soviet painter Larisa Kirillova. . Self-portrait. 1974

Soviet painter Larisa Kirillova. Self-portrait. 1974

Russian Soviet painter Larisa Kirillova (nee Kotova) – Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1987), Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1988), member of the Russian Academy of Arts, a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 – the Leningrad branch of the Union artists of the RSFSR). Head teacher of the St. Petersburg State Academic Art Lyceum. Her works are in the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, in Art museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.
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Soviet sculptor Mikhail Anikushin 1917-1997

Monument to Lenin on Moscow Square closeup, Soviet sculptor Mikhail Anikushin

Lenin monument, Moscow Square, closeup. Soviet sculptor Mikhail Anikushin (1917 – 1997)

Soviet sculptor Mikhail Anikushin

In 1958, Mikhail Anikushin became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR and four years later – Academician (1962). He was People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1977). Among his awards – the Lenin Prize (1958) and the RSFSR State Prize of Repin (1986). He was a member of the Communist party since 1944, and veteran of Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).
Born 19 September 1917 in Moscow, Anikushin grew up in a working class family. Meanwhile, the artist wrote: “I – the son of the Moscow parquet floor maker, a wonderful wizard Konstantin Anikushin. He made parquet floor for those who stay in the hotel “Moscow” in the capital. My elder brother – an engineer-surveyor Vladimir Anikushin participated in the discovery and creation of Karaganda industrial area. And I had to be on a par with them. All that I did, and what happiness I had – I am obliged to Great October. And what I haven’t done yet – I must do”. Anikushin studied at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin from 1937 to 1947 with a break for the war years (1941-1945).
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Soviet sculptor Alexandra Briedis

Soviet sculptor Alexandra Briedis (July 25, 1901 - November 14, 1992). Portrait of schoolgirl Mary. 1970. Gypsum

Soviet sculptor Alexandra Briedis (July 25, 1901 – November 14, 1992). Portrait of schoolgirl Mary. 1970. Gypsum

Soviet sculptor Alexandra Briedis (Alexandra Yanovna Briede, nee Kalninya, 25 July 1901 — 14 November 1992) – People’s Artist of the Latvian SSR (1955), Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1958). Alexandra studied at the Academy of Arts in Riga (1923-31) at the workshop of K. Ronchevsky. She is the author of statues, tombstones, portraits, genre scenes, works of fine porcelain sculpture. Her works: “The young sculptor” (bronze, 1947), “The World” (marble, 1960), “Rain” (granite, 1969) – all were stored at the Art Museum of the Latvian SSR, Riga; “May there always be sunshine” (granite, 1963), “Antsite – Collective Farm Girl” (bronze, 1965), “My land” (aluminum 1967), “Lenin” (granite, 1969). She was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of Merit.
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