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Elena Shvarts

“It’s fun to transport your life from seventies Russia to Ancient Rome, as it were – everything becomes funnier and prettier.”

- Elena Shvarts
Soviets in Scotland, Brits in USSR 1950s

Soviets in Scotland, Brits in USSR 1950s

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Uncategorized

Sometimes an extended dig in an archive turns up the unexpected. This happened when I was in Moscow last winter. I had been spinning through wheels of microfilm without much luck for a few days when suddenly all these photographs appeared on the screen. The photos were cuttings of newspaper items, all seemingly reporting the […]