Shelter for heroes

In July 1941 the military came to Moscow photographer for the American magazine «Life» Margaret Bourke-White.
She worked in the unique conditions: with the advent of war mode to shooting in Moscow much tougher for unauthorized recording, as well as for not handed over the camera, relied Tribunal.
But in the Kremlin in those days, preparing for important talks with the United States in Moscow was supposed to arrive a personal friend and confidant of President Roosevelt, and Margaret got permission to shoot images of a belligerent Soviet Union.
The Soviet leadership decided that such images in the prestigious Journal of profitable transatlantic present Soviet Union to the American public.
Margaret Bourke-White held in Moscow two months.
And despite the fact that it is always accompanied and sometimes were preparing to shoot, it was made truly unique shots.





Luftwaffe raids on the capital began on July 22, Margaret was able to photograph one of the first, the picture on 26 July. Being anti-aircraft fire, Spotlight searches for enemy planes. Presumably Margaret took this picture from my hotel "National".



That same night. This picture was allegedly taken from the roof of the British Embassy at the Sofia embankment.



Saleswoman soda and Muscovites.



Matches are held still, the championship is not closed.



Gorkogo Street.



The metro station "Sverdlov Square" Muscovites go out after an air raid.



Workers at the rear, a very famous picture in the West.



View on Manezhnaya Square and the Kremlin from the "National".



Training medical orderlies.



Margaret and allowed into the inner sanctum, forbidden to ordinary shooting place - the Moscow metro. Pictured Muscovites hide from the next air raid on the station "Mayakovskaya".



Entrance to the escalator metro station "Mayakovskaya". Some look back at the unusual sight - a photographer in the subway.



Students at the hostel.



In the lobby of the hotel "Moscow".



Moscow State University.



Students conduct experiments at the aerodynamic laboratory of Moscow State University.



In a lecture on Greek history, the Moscow State University.



Pavilion with heavy machinery in the agricultural exhibition.



Mongolian farmers at the agricultural exhibition.



In the subway during an air raid.



Bookstore outdoors.



Access to the Spaso House, the private residence of the US ambassador in Moscow.



Workers at Spaso House removed the broken stained glass windows during raids.



Kremlin in the moonlight.



The youth, after listening to reports of war in the Park of Culture.



Playing "voynushki" in kindergarten.



Margaret and arranged for a meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Western Front, was on the edge of the main attack, and waged heavy fighting near Smolensk Sokolovsky, the future Marshal of the Soviet Union.



He's at a banquet in honor of the American delegation.



Old Bolshevik Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky (Dridze), director of the Information Bureau, and Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov. It will be arrested in 1949 and executed in 1952 th.



German soldier Fritz Ehrhardt in a Soviet hospital after being wounded in battle.



Rolf Helmudt, another German soldier.

Photo: Margaret Bourke-White / Life
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