Color photos from 1910 Russia

Found this posted on another forum. I thought it was pretty astonishing, because when you look at the pictures you'd never guess they were taken in 1910.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

 

That guy's camera rocked.

The number 6 picture shows what seems to be either telephone, light or hydro poles....in 1910 Russia, wow. Even in Toronto and New York electricity was very new technology at that time.

I want to move to where the people in picture 27 live, no pakis. Speaking of pakis, I really got rid of gandhi didn't I? LOL.

P.S. My favorite movie scene is now blocked in Germany. This is banned in Germany, lol.

 

Thanks for posting that. 100 years/sto let/centi anni. Well, the bourgeoisie atmosphere in Russia in 1914 was pretty much the same as Paris, maybe more advanced. Personally, I would have preferred to live in Russia at the time.

 

Nice pics. I would have loved to have someone wipe my ass for me, cut my meat, pull my barge, yeah, life was great in Russia. If you were bougyoiloi or whatever the fuk.

 

Were you googling for porn set in the 1910 timeframe Red Ant?

J/K

Nice pics. In some pics you can see the result of the peculiar way the guy got his colors into image.

-Z

 

Really spectacular photos !!!!

What a dramatic insight into old Russia, to see with such clarity 100+ years back.

Too bad the western powers didn't do such documentation.



Thanks for the link !!!!!

 

Yes, some awesome pictures there! But, a short time later, that empire massacres 7,0000,000+ people plus some in the pictures I bet. Not a cheery subject but, part of the harsh reality of some of those nice people.

 

I think that's not the theme why Ant posted it, but if you want, we can start a new topic about genocide of indians, that's interesting part of the harsh reality too

... fuck these themes, just thumb up for the nice pictures from the era of normal life, that's all and better than talking about politics and death.

 

Dude;

My two cents worth of observations:

"That" empire did not massacre 7,000.000+ people. There was a revolution and a democratic republic of Russia was formed, a few months later there was another "revolt" by communists that did some serious killing.

Remember Lenin was exiled in Switzerland and after he received $40.000.00 US from Henry Ford, who urged him to go to Russia and organize the working classes did he go back to Russia and overthrow that very young republic.

There were several "revolutions" happening just around then.

The Ottoman Empire was on the way out and Armenia was being mass murdered.

The industrial revolution part two was being played-out. The royalty of Europe, mass land owners who controlled millions of farmers were being edged-out of power by the new barons, the factory owners, who were fighting those royals for control of the masses from the farms to the factories.
In this mad grab for power states with royals and new aristocracy of the bankers and factory owners made interconnecting deals with states.

One stupid thing was going to bring all of it collapsing down with the New World Order and the new owl worshipers to collect big time.

Hence "The Great War" and hence Dupont, Standard Oil, Rothschilds, Krupp and all the other factories making arms made millions- those were the days of gold and silver and no Federal Reserve notes.


1910 was the last "quiet time" for a long time.


Stalin is credited with liquidating about 30.000.000

and Chairman Mao 60.000.000+

all the others were boyscouts by comparison....

 

Juicy

7 godzillions murdered by the Empire is overestimated. No more then 7 brazillions.

Technically Bolsheviks didn't do anything wrong. Counsils (Soviets) were maybe even more legitimate then "intermediate government".

Ford?! Nice, it's something new. At least you don't say anything about Kaiser's money and a sealed railway car.

BTW, Lenin came back in April 1917 from... drumroll... Finland!

LOL. Especially in Russian Empire. Lena shootings 1912. Bloody Sunday in 1905, then 2 years of mass executions and Stolypin's neck-ties.

Solzhenitsyn said Stalin murdered 90 million. Plus 27 million killed in a War, then - I only wonder why there's anyone still living here.

 

Guys, stop with that pro-against russia flames in each topic. I dont care how it was to live in russia 100,50,10 years ago. I'm just stunned with that photos. I thought a world 100 years ago was black and white

 

Let's rename this the "Piss in Someone Else's Cornflakes" thread.

 

Winners and sometimes survivors get to write the history books..

You didn't know that about good old Henry Ford???? Ha ha ha...

then you must know that part about A. Hitler's book "Mien Kampf" in the prelog, he wrote "I want to thank my good friend , Henry Ford for his early support ..." Ha ha ha... no wonder some politicians pushed to ban the book in the USA !!! Try to find an original issue in German.

What about the Potemkin incident of 1905 ?

Clearly under the Czar things may have been quiet, but not that happy for the majority.

It never is under any dictatorship, left or right. proletariat or bourgeois....


Anyway enough politics and YES some VERY GOOD photos of life 100 years ago.

Sorry for my political rantings....

 

Hahahaha...... yes, sorry about that !

 

I know Ford was pro-nazi, but I never knew he supported Bolsheviks.

Anyway, comparing Communists to nazis is a big mistake.

I mentioned Bloody Sunday here. It was a beginning of a revolution that lasted for almost 3 years, 05-07, and Potemkin was just a small episode. There were at least teo more uprisings in the navy, heavy cruiser Ochakov in the Black sea 1906 and cruiser Pamyat' Azova in the Baltics 1907.

Here you are very much mistaken.

Thank you and nevermind

I have been to many places you can see on that pictures, only 70+ years later. It's my country... Dagestan, Georgia or Bukhara Emirate - it's still my country.

Monarchy was rotten to the bone by 1914, so very few people missed it, but the Empire was good for all it's nations, doesn't matter if it was Russian Empire or Soviet Union. There was nothing like our Empire in the whole human history.

 

Think about it, though. It was in those bourgeosie or what we'd call middle and upper class salons that people with "radical" ideas had a voice that they wouldn't have had otherwise. See, you'd be invited to one of those places and you'd be considered dangerous by the society ladies. Get to lay a few fancy wives. You'd get some money from some bored, degenerate and overly idealistic sons of aristocratic estate owners, factory owning folks and other grand bourgeoisie.

Just like Sunnyvale coffee shops

 

Yeah, and then Indian warlords were at war for years with the people in Sri Lanka and then civil wars for 25 years where 80 - 100k people died during that conflict but, that was a conflict. What Stalin and the Ukraine undertook was an official policy of genocidal extermination, not war. This is something way way bigger, like nearly 10,000,000 dead, bigger. Let's remember the people from those images.

 

King of Donair, more like it

Conky's travels

 

And you let history run its course all the way up until you had to put your own Indians in reservations.

Really, let him without fault cast the first stone. And to anticipate the obvious: yes, Belgium did some stupid shit in Afrika too.

Can we now get over the fucking politics?

-Z

 

Yeah, as soon as you have your facts straight. They aren't Indians, Indians come from India. They are Native Americans, or more appropriated to their tribes as Arikara, Mandan, Sioux, Arapaho, Chippewa, Dakota, Hidatsa, etc.
The Native Americans can go and come as they please, and are supported wholey by the government if needed. They have their own politics, governing, banking and monetary system. They are also part of the Three Affiliated Tribes. Lakota is part of a more unifed part, including North Dakota/South Dakota/Nebraska which have a gold backed monetary system. This isn't politics, it's humanity and it's existence. Get off your freaking high chair.