The realities of life in rare pictures.
Former revolution Museum shows a glimpse of your photo collections, to show portraits of children, whose share fell two wars, hunger and poverty.
Collection of photos of GTSMSIR is formed in 20-ies of the last century and has no less than 180 thousand photographs and 160 thousand negatives. Despite the fact that the Museum, formerly known as the Museum of the revolution, a special role is assigned the thematic documents here for almost a century has accumulated a unique set of photos of everyday life and everyday life of all strata of the Soviet population.
Homeless children of the 1920s — the children of the First world war, revolution, terror and famine. The strongest children of their time.
The young Soviet state declared the fight against homelessness a political objective, and in 1935 was officially declared complete elimination of abandonment and neglect. Maybe so, but maybe for ideological reasons, but the Museum’s photo archive on this subject is very small and ends in the 1930’s.
