Life in a Russian village (1910-1933)

Village houses on the shore of one of the Valaam Islands, transporting hay by boat, peasants in boats near the shore.

Loading chopped firewood into carts at a woodshed.

A mechanism driven by a horse in a circular motion.

Peasant women in a field during harvest time.

Peasant women bind sheaves and reap grain with sickles.

Plowing a field with a plow.

Faces of peasants threshing grain with flails.

Peasant women approach and pile flax.

Loading sheaves onto a cart.

Carts with sheaves leave the barn.

A cart loaded with hay leaves the field.

Loading sacks of grain onto a cart.

Threshing sheaves on a steam thresher.

Removing chaff from the thresher on a sleigh.

A female paramedic provides first aid to a peasant.

View of a wooden church, a boy bell-ringer rings the bells.

Interior views of an Orthodox church, candles, icons.

A depiction of the crucifixion in a church.

A woman lights a candle.

A priest at the altar.

A view of a section of the iconostasis.

A priest celebrates Mass.

Dancing to the accompaniment of an accordion in one of the Don villages in the early 1930s.

Young men and women dancing, an accordionist playing.

The faces of young women watching the dancers.

Dancing couples, an accordion in the hands of the accordionist, the faces of spectators, the feet of the dancers (alternating).