Culture, art and leisure in the USSR (1920-1936)

Theatre director A. Ya.

Tairov smokes a cigarette (close-up).

View of Tverskaya Street in the early 1920s.

Posters of performances of Moscow theatres and poetry evenings on the walls of buildings and poster columns. V. V. Mayakovsky reads poetry (in profile).

Banners with slogans above a column of demonstrators.

Views of a demonstration in Petrograd in 1917 (fragment of a feature film).

Spectators on one of the squares of Petrograd applaud the artists during the performance of another mystery play.

An orator speaks at a rally.

Mayakovsky reads his poetry.

Fragments of Lunacharsky's mystery play "Two Worlds", staged and performed near the Stock Exchange building in Petrograd on July 19, 1920. An artist portraying Kerensky.

Fragments of the mystery play.

Fragments of one of the posters for "ROSTA Windows" drawn by Mayakovsky, Mayakovsky's face.

People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR A. V. Lunacharsky speaks from the rostrum in the Column Hall of the House of Unions, view of the hall (from above).

Lunacharsky signs documents while sitting at a table.

Lunacharsky at the train station.

Panorama of the square with a stage during a mystery play.

The face of the actor M. I. Zharov, a make-up artist glues a beard and moustache onto Zharov, applies make-up, make-up accessories on a table.

Photographs of Zharov in various roles.

View of Moscow buildings in the evening in the early 1930s.

Lecture at the planetarium.

Street lamps and illuminated advertising are lit.

Illuminated names of the Satire Theater, the Operetta Theater. V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko puts on a wig.

Nemirovich-Danchenko at the entrance to the auditorium.

A poster with the repertoire of performances at the 2nd Moscow Art Theatre in 1935-1936. Spectators entering the Bolshoi Theatre, actors putting on make-up before the performance.

People by the columns at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theatre.

Trucks passing by.

A passenger train passes.

View of the railway track, landscapes along the road.

Passenger trains overtake each other on parallel lines.

View of the covered platform of the station.

The Ferris wheel rotates in the Park of Culture and Leisure in 1927. Cabins with people on the Ferris wheel.

Riding a carousel.

Accordion players in the center of the carousel.

People on the carousel.

The Ferris Wheel attraction, people flying off the rotating circle.

People walking across a bridge.

A tram passes by.

View of the tram bridge.

Passengers getting off the tram.

Views of the Park of Culture and Leisure.

Entertainment in the park.

Synchronized swimming training in the stands of the water stadium, the instructor gives commands through a megaphone.

Rowers with oars on their shoulders in a column, one by one, walk along a wooden pier.

Swimming lesson for beginners on the edge of the pool.

Panorama of the water stadium during the rowing competition.