Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #1040
At the Lenin Museum Moscow, USSR 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1040 This unique and striking image is available on a variety of mugs at our Etsy...
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Michael Laxer
- Aug 15
- 3 min
Soviet Moscow's Bird Market for pets: A visit in August, 1968
From USSR Magazine, August 1968: Every Sunday. despite spring floods or autumn rain winter frost or summer heat. Muscovites of all ages...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 4
- 5 min
Daily LIFT #1000
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, Moscow USSR, 1967, monumental sculpture by Vera Mukhina -- Daily LIFT #1000 Also known as Worker and Collective...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 27
- 2 min
The Revolution in Moscow, 1917
Storming of the Kremlin in 1917, painting K. Yuon From the USSR in 1957 -- 40 years after the world changing events of 1917 -- some...
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 7 min
Moscow -- Hero City of the USSR
"Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal" -- Image from the Battle of Moscow From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 6, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #770
USSR: Bulwark of Peace, Moscow 1988 -- Daily LIFT #770 Magnificent sculpture structure that went through many variations during the the...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 3, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #768
Mass rally at the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow USSR, 1985 -- Daily LIFT #768 The 12th World Festival of Youth and...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 21, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #759
Soviet author Maxim Gorky bids farewell to to French novelist Romain Rolland and his wife after their trip to the USSR, Moscow, July 21...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 3, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #746
Demobilized Red Army soldiers arrive home at the Byelorussia Railroad Station, Moscow after the victory over the Nazis in the Great...
Michael Laxer
- May 26, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #718
Delegates to the Tenth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B) in the Sverdlovsk Hall of the Kremlin, Moscow, May 26, 1921. Lenin is in...
Michael Laxer
- May 25, 2022
- 8 min
Dinner at a Soviet factory cafeteria, 1963
The cafeteria at the "Mosstroytrans" Trucking Depot No. 1, Moscow c. 1979 A fascinating bit of Soviet social history, this article from...
Michael Laxer
- May 25, 2022
- 2 min
Lenin on Red Square, May 25, 1919
Images of Lenin #58 Lenin on Red Square at a parade of workers' regiments formed under the Universal Military Training Scheme (Vsevobuch)...
Michael Laxer
- May 5, 2022
- 1 min
Lenin in Sverdlov Square, May 5 1920
Images of Lenin #43 V. I. Lenin addressing men of the Red Army leaving for the Polish Front, Sverdlov Square, Moscow May 5, 1920 --...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 30, 2022
- 1 min
Lenin, Moscow May 1, 1920
Images of Lenin #38 V. I. Lenin at the laying of the foundation stone of a monument to Liberated Labour, Prechistenskaya embankment,...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 18, 2022
- 1 min
Lenin, July 1920, Moscow
Images of Lenin #28 Lenin, July 1920, Moscow -- Images of Lenin #28 This is the twenty-eighth in our new daily feature that will be...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 18, 2022
- 1 min
Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International
Images of Lenin #2 V.I. Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International, Moscow, March 1919 "The Paris Commune --...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
Five varieties of Soviet borsch -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Moscow Borsch, Ukrainian Borsch, Borsch with Dried White Mushrooms and Prunes, Summer Borsch and Cold Beetroot Soup. Stock photo These...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 20, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #629
Crowds assemble at the Kremlin Palace of the Congresses for a showing of The Defiant Ones during the Third Moscow International Film...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 8, 2022
- 3 min
A talk with Lenin: An American in Moscow, 1921
An account of the visit of progressive American economist and former presidential candidate Parley Christensen to meet Lenin in Moscow,...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 29, 2021
- 5 min
Lenin: Three historic photos and their stories
During the centennial year of Lenin's birth, 1970, Mikhail Yeryomin, a retired Soviet Major-General who was then working for the...
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