Outstanding figures in world history (1908-1954)

A photograph of film director M.I. Romm on a film set.

A telescope for observing a solar eclipse.

People observe a solar eclipse through protective glass.

A view of part of the square in front of the Opera in Paris in the early 20th century.

The beginning of a solar eclipse.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie conducting experiments in a laboratory in the early 1930s.

Skłodowska-Curie on the balcony of her home.

The presentation of an award to Albert Einstein in the United States in the first half of the 1950s.

A session of suggestion and hypnosis.

The hypnotist makes hand passes.

The dispersal of a demonstration by colonial police in an African colony.

A reel of telegraph tape.

A winter Russian landscape with a church.

A sleigh pulled by three horses.

Telephone wires, a panorama of a forest.

Photo portraits of the inventors of the telegraph and telephone, including a portrait of Thomas Edison.

Parts of Edison's telephone.

Portrait of the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell.

Model of Bell's apparatus.

Men and women in suits and uniforms from the late 19th century talk using telephones of various designs and models (staging).

The hands of a telephone operator on a switchboard.

A store clerk answers a telephone (staging).

Turning the call handle of a telephone.

A general talks on the telephone (staging).

People talk on the telephone.

Telephone operators at the switchboard.

Academician I.P. Pavlov conducts observations of experimental dogs at the Institute of Physiology in Koltushi in 1931-1934. Leo Tolstoy is met at the Moscow train station in 1908; a crowd of people meet him in the station square. L.N. Tolstoy, his wife, and their entourage leave the station building.

Tolstoy L.N. and his wife, Sofya Andreyevna, during a summer walk in Yasnaya Polyana in 1908. The photographer sets up the camera on a tripod.

Tolstoy and members of his family on the porch of their house in Yasnaya Polyana before taking photographs.

Tolstoy walks along a park path.

Members of Tolstoy's family on a walk.

A peasant woman binds a sheaf.

Threshing grain on a threshing floor with hand flails.

A view of an industrial enterprise in Russia in the early 20th century.

A steam engine passes through the factory grounds.

Mechanics manually sharpen parts with files.

A worker at a machine.

Drive belts of machine tools.

The production process in a foundry.

A ceremonial procession in the Moscow Kremlin with the participation of Nicholas II and members of his family in honor of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913. The ladies-in-waiting and generals of His Majesty's retinue pass by in court uniforms.

Nicholas II kisses the cross and receives the Metropolitan's blessing.