Henri Cartier-Bresson, Soviet Union in 1954

January 17, 1955 Magazine «Life» published a photo essay by Henri Cartier-Bresson "The people of Russia." Famous Frenchman was one of the first Western journalists who received official permission to photograph ordinary Soviet citizens.

Moscow. 1954. Komsomolskaya Square

 Moscow. 1954.

Leningrad. 1954.

Russia. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Stade Dynamo.

Moscow. Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. 1954.

Moscow. Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Workers of a state-farm visiting the Metro.

Leningrad. 1954. "Univermag", State department store.

Moscow. Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. 1954.

 Moscow. Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Fashion show.

Moscow. 1954. Workers of a state-farm visiting the Metro.

Moscow. Red Square. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Red Square. People in line to visit Lenin's Mausoleum.

Moscow. 1954. Canteen for workers building the Hotel Metropol. 

Moscow. 1954. Elementary school.

Moscow. 1954.

Moscow. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Bakery.

Russia. 1954.

Russia. 1954.

Russia. 1954.

Russia. 1954.

Russia. 1954.

 Moscow. Russian Orthodox church. 1954.

Russia. 1954.

Russia. 1954.

Russia. 1954.

Moscow. 1954.

 Leningrad. 1954. Russian Museum.

Moscow. 1954. Moscow Circus.

Moscow. Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. A man from the Caucasus region.

Russia. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Inside the house of Leo Tolstoy.

Moscow. 1954. Workers building the Hotel Metropol. 

Moscow. 1954. Inside a mosque.

Russia. 1954. The Trans-Siberian Railway.

 Moscow. 1954.

Moscow. 1954.

Leningrad Oblast. Petrodvorets (Peterhof). 1954.

Moscow. Red Square. The Kremlin. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Lenin State Library.

Moscow. 1954. Elementary school.

Leningrad. 1954. Sunday mass at a Russian Orthodox church. Sokolniki.

Moscow. 1954. Workers of a state-farm visiting the Metro.

 Russia. Moscow. 1954. Museum of the Revolution.

 Moscow. 1954. Stade Dynamo.

Leningrad. 1954.

Moscow. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Ballet school.

On the left: Soviet writer and journalist, Ilya Ehrenburg in his dacha in the Moscow suburbs. 1954.

Leningrad Oblast. Petrodvorets (Peterhof). 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Ukrainian festival.

Leningrad. 1954.

Moscow. 1954. Ballet school.

Leningrad. 1954. The Hermitage museum.

Moscow. 1954. 

Moscow. 1954.

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