Rare shots from 1940 up to the present that you’ve never seen before. Magnum’s best photographers managed to capture the atmosphere and vivid moments of Russian life in a way others couldn’t.
1. Visitors at the Red Square. Moscow, USSR, 1947
© Robert Capa © International Center of Photography/ Magnum Photos
2. The State Bolshoi Theater Ballet School. Practicing positions. Moscow, USSR, 1958
© Cornell Capa © International Center of Photography/ Magnum Photos
3. A wedding registration. Bratsk, Siberia, USSR, 1967
© Elliott Erwitt/ Magnum Photos
4. Soviet poet Arseny Tarkovsky, father of the famous Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky. Moscow, USSR, 1979
© Gueorgui Pinkhassov/ Magnum Photos
5. Fashion in Leningrad. USSR, 1987
© Ferdinando Scianna/ Magnum Photos
6. Peter and Paul Fortress. Homo Sovieticus. Leningrad, USSR, 1989
© Carl De Keyzer/ Magnum Photos
7. Victory Day celebrations. Moscow, USSR, 1989
© Harry Gruyaert/ Magnum Photos
8. Calisthenics classes for vacationers in a sanatorium in Sochi. USSR, 1963
© Burt Glinn/ Magnum Photos
9. Camp 27. Honeymoon room. Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, 2001
© Carl De Keyzer/ Magnum Photos
10. The town of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, Russia, March 2015
© Steve McCurry/ Magnum Photos
11. Followers of Vissarion during a Christmas pilgrimage. Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia, 2015
© Jonas Bendiksen/ Magnum Photos
The exhibition ‘As They See Us. A Portrait of Russia by the Magnum Agency’ is now on display in St. Petersburg at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall.
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