Moscow in the summer of 1941 Bashny.Net

Margaret Bourke-White, the only foreign photojournalist, who turned these days in Moscow. A series of photos the summer of 1941 - a colossal historical document, they are better than any film convey a lively atmosphere of the time.

Summer 1941. City living their normal lives. Everyone understands that the air smells like a thunderstorm, but it's somewhere far away, on the border ...

Gorky Street.


Gorky Street towards the Kremlin.


Manezh Square.


All in the Mausoleum


Entrance to the Kremlin.


Soviet Information Bureau message ...
Look at the people, look closely at the faces! They do not have any fear or even anxiety. The war that waited. It is prepared. But here Moscow ...


After the rally. They just do not talk about the war. As it is not like movies ...


Life goes on as usual ...

Seller water.


"Dynamo" stadium, watching soccer match between CSK and "Dynamo»




VDTH. The monument to Stalin.






Sale of books.


Library them. Lenin.


Anti-religious museum.


Intellectuals until the lifestyle changes only slightly different surroundings.

Actress Lyubov Orlova in between sёmkami film.








Amer. writer Erskine Caldwell, drinking brandy with Alexei Tolstoy.


Hotels Moscow.


Cocktail lounge on Gorky Street. Cult institution


What type! She looks like a former member of the State Duma) And in fact, I wonder who is this gentleman? Or friend that is unlikely-if ...
Egg yolk, gin, apricot liqueur, Benedictine liqueur sharp.


Atelier and magazine VOGUE.


Buying a dress.


Kindergarten.


Kindergarten. Game of war.


Production meeting.


Break from work.


Moscow University.


University. Lecture.


University. In the classroom.


Family for their studies at the hostel.


Technical Institute. In the hostel students.


Testing in the laboratory of aerodynamics at the University of Moscow.


Receiving complaints.


In the subway.


Subway. Mayakovskaya station.


Life has changed. Metro has become not just a metro ...
Bomb shelter in the subway.


Bomb shelter in the subway. Children.


The descent to the shelter.




Bomb shelter in the basement.


Duty.


Began ...
After the first air attack.