Photos of famous Russians made in unfamiliar surroundings

Leo Tolstoy and Ilya Repin in Yasnaya Polyana, 1907.




Faina Ranevskaya on a walk with her friend Nina Suchocka.



Hockey player Alexander Ovechkin driving Harley-Davidson.



"B-2" at the beginning of his career.



Sergei Yesenin on vacation in Italy.



Viktor Tsoi and Bill for a walk, in September 1985.



Andrei Konchalovsky in Rome.



Julia Vysotsky and Andrey Konchalovsky.



Already Soviet cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin with his wife Valentina at home. Moscow, May 1, 1963.



Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady in Paris, 1977.



Andrei Tarkovsky during the filming of "The Mirror", 1975.



CPSU General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev on vacation, 1971.



Leo Tolstoy with your favorite horse delirium. Yasnaya Polyana, 1908.



Dmitri Shostakovich, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Alexander Rodchenko, February 1929.



Ilya Repin introduced Maxim Gorky with the critic Vladimir Stasov.



Yuri Nikulin at school.



Writer Sergei Mikhalkov and his son Nikita, 1952.



Similar to Dr. Dolittle Michael Prishvin.



Maya Plisetskaya and Yves Saint Laurent.



Rodion Shchedrin and Maya Plisetskaya.



Vladimir Lenin before the October uprising.



Young Leonid Yarmolnik and Alexander Abdulov.



Savely Kramarov with his dog.



Viktor Tsoi. Vilnius, 1988.



Yuri Gagarin during a picnic in the woods.



Vladimir Vysotsky and his classmates, 1955.



Alla Pugacheva on tour, 1970.



Skillful hunter butterflies Vladimir Nabokov. Switzerland, 1960-1970-s.





Two Natasha - two wives Burljaeva Nicholas (Varley and Bondarchuk).