[C19fan]

Gorgeous color photos of Pre-Revolution Russia. The Library of Congress has the collection online if you want to browse:

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/

[JoeProBono]

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Thanks for posting.

BFL.

[Batman11]

Pfl

[left that other site]

Those are Wonderful!

Thank You.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Magnificent photos. They certainly lend a different aspect to life in those times, compared to the black and white photos that we normally see.

[piroque]

Thanks for the photo’s ,

[Nevadan]

wow! Thanks for posting!

[Conservative4Ever]

Beautiful photos. The most interesting one to me was the wealthy woman standing on her beautiful carpet.

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

I would like to thank my great-grandfather, Isaac, and my great-grandmother, Anya for leaving Kiev, Ukraine (just got out in the nick of time) during the end of the revolution in 1923. Their daughter, my grandmother, taught us to thank G-d everyday for being US citizens. She taught us to serve. Almost all the the family are involved in the local government or schools in the towns we live in.

My grandmother had an old suitcase of family photos from that time. No one looked happy in in the photos.
My grandmother came to the US at age 5 and was sent to kindergarten (yes, she spoke Russian) to be immersed in English....that’s a discussion for another thread.