brave old world

The first victim

With such a history, it is no coincidence that Latvians know exactly which side to stand on and what to expect if their former oppressors prevail again

Four hundred tons of secret maps

The warehouse workers were too lazy to sort the sheets and told him to take it all. He shipped four hundred tons of map sheets in several train cars

The Fascism Among Us

This quote is from Mussolini’s Milan speech of 1 November 1936, one of those “great historic speeches”, which, writes Eco, “marked all my childhood, and whose most significant passages we memorized in schools.” This is just one of those passages

Stalin's Vestal Virgins

Franz Ferdinand’s three deaths

Dissolving: A long march

Letter to the frontline

Revolution from bottom view

The long voyage

The price of the victory. Photos by Valery Faminsky

“Jewish temples”. Relics of a golden age

Jazz on bones, or the real teddy boys. A Moscow subculture from the fifties

The three synagogues of the concentration camp

Polish cemetery on the Caspian shore

Francis Joseph in Czernowitz

Invisible cities. Czernowitz, where people and books lived

Purim in Czernowitz

Mimicry

Encounter

Eternal friendship

The sea in Zahesi

Internationalism

Electrification

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Dissolving: Brave new world

Dissolving: In Praise of Work

Bombs in Venice

Times and timepieces of Wolf Pruss. 1. Coming of age in Russia

Tales about the Maidan

A cemetery in Bukovina

Lenin lived

Daughter of the 21st century

But who is that Hittler?

All quiet on the Isonzo front

War from a grassroots perspective

“Here, along the trench…”

Abraham Ganz at the Hindukush

May Allah have mercy on you, Prokudin-Gorsky

Cancerous land

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Ghost sign

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Unholy bread

War

White Easter

Musa Dagh, the mountain of resistance

The European costume

“მე გადმოვცურავ ზღვას” – “I’ll cross the sea swimming”

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In search of Adolf Guttmann 3. Marriages

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Pasquino greets Hitler

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The conquest of the air

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Christmas of the enemy

Field postcards for Christmas

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Bergoglio's List

Field post

In search of Adolf Guttmann. 2. Towards fortune

A hurried resurrection

Young Russia – the land of unlimited possibilities

All that is important

In search of Adolf Guttmann. 1. A survey

Wall spotting, minute by minute

A Happy Birthday

All Souls' Day

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Memorial wall of fallen plaques

Pink postcards 2

The City of Smile

Prayer for victory

A successful blitz

A Fascist university campus in Bratislava, 1941

Fires

Incendies

Hurray school!

The last day at school

Colossus

Pink postcards 1.

Feast

Multi-culti

Landscape without people

Tarnów tales 1. The Al Capone of Tarnów

Paradise lost

Parallel realities

Church on the drill ground

Hooray for summer

Cemetery on the bank of the Vltava

Poor Man's Bibles

Four-hands

Yellow-star houses

Whitsuntide, 1915

The Three Graces

The Hutsul Republic

Referendum

So that's why “Poema” is hard to fit into a tanda...

Layers of time / Escrito en el tiempo

Deluge

The spirit of Odessa

Odessa

One more May Day

Back in the U.S.S.R.

Another May Day

Long live

Yanks meet Reds

Angel

Otta Soap

Postcard with unknown children

Vienna mine-free

Doomsday in Vienna

Dissolving: The snake

Long live the Republic!

Women's Day Revolution

Gulistan

Pocket guide

Katsap and khokhol

Yanukovich, lover of books

Bathing Venus

Twelve Communists

Iconoclasm

Even more Fascist elephants

Kiev, last night

Kőrösmező, Terminus

The Moravians who said no to Czechoslovakia

30,000 Kilometers

The little guide

Crossroads

Frasin

Lost their lives in an immigration procedure

To the Holy Land without a Baedeker, 1916-1918

Apocryphal icons

Saint Iosif

Edison's voice

The future has begun

Encounters

St. Joseph, Galicia

Dear homeland, be quiet!

Alexander Roinashvili, traveler and ethnographer

Krampus on the front

Fire!

Kristallnacht

Buhse, the shoemaker

In praise of craft

Soldatenkaffee

Legacy of a village

Ropeways

Beginning of a beautiful friendship

The museum of propaganda

An ordinary day

Heritage of Bakhchisaray

Colonial

Feast of joy

Far away from Mount Ararat

Comrade, Life Does Not Have to be So Gray

Survival kit

Dracula

Bike on the dacha

Family

King Matthias' Palace

Dissolving: Ferenc Mine

Hapax legomenon

Cemetery in the Carpathians

After the Tatar Pass, the road goes down in the Prut valley, the first settlement is Tatariv, that is, Tatars’ Town

Endgame

From the water to the Sahara

Greetings from Odessa

Dissolving: Ideal family

Gingerbread houses in the whispering pines

Iron curtain

Korányi & Fröhlich

Hands

Dissolving: Conquering everywhere

On Deribasovskaya, at the corner of Rishelievskaya…

Signs

An Indian in Subotica

Remembrance

Dissolving: The beast

Merry-making

Hungary preserved

Dissolving: Front Fighters' Association

Juden raus

Roman Vishniac's eyes

Book of kings

Could have been the Poles allies of Hitler?

Time loop

The name of the rose

Dissolving: The organ grinder

The long voyage

Don vs. Sinai

Don – A tragedy and its afterlives

With a camera in the Don Bend

Father and son

Father – and father

The witness

Съ Рождествомъ Христовымъ

Christmas greetings

Two feasts

Мин нет

Future reloaded

2013 Is Your Year!

The exiled

Lenin's bodyguard

Картинки на конец света / Pictures for the end of the world

Life is beautiful

And now you investigate!

From an authoritative source

Памятник Освободителям / Memorial to the Liberators

A city in-between

Sweet home

The American soldier

Before the Storm

Hawelka

Une mer très noire / A very black sea

Gyöngyösi Street

A page from an album

The schwarzgelb baize

All quiet in the Eastern front

Die Mitte

Behind the facades of Tiflis

The guide

Waiting for you, comrade bird

Lighthouse of the revolution

The swift water of Cheremosh

Brothers

Cernăuți, 1939 – Черновиц, 1940

The cemetery of Czernowitz

Ghosts (2) — Spirits

The Oxford Arms Inn

The ghosts of Old London

The Art Nouveau in Szabadka

Szabadka Unlimited, 4. Globetrotters

Szabadka Unlimited, 3. So ugly that already disgusting

Szabadka Unlimited, 2

Szabadka Unlimited, 1

The taste of traveling, 1905

But what did the Romans ever give us?

The glory of Ukraine

I have weighed everything

Dissolving

Sztuka

Back from Lemberg

Pictures cut

Ernest Chantre in the Caucasus

Picture-writing

Lemberg’s empty places

Wild East

“Very rare video”

The Russian army

Bruska

Army found

They have won and

Change of government

Flag science

GPS

Captain Ostapenko's statue

Dissolving: Grandpa and Wilhelm Miklas

Lemberg: the fifth grave of the hero of Gaza

Dissolving: the future behind a veil

Hungarian soldiers in Denmark

Dissolving: Muzhik

Whom does it hurt

Match

And now you tell it

Greetings from a Budapest

The Joys of Yinglish

Brave old world

Parallel worlds

Eternal fire

Another bright future

My homeland

Janowska

Another day ended in the Janowska, the last German labor camp which still works in the same buildings and with the same function on the outskirts of Lwów.

Long live, long live Comrade Rákosi

Catastrophe tourism

A history of two statues

Door

Dissolving: Budapest, February 1945

Dissolving: This was brought to us by the Party

Ghost photography

Tamten Lwów

Google Translator, beta version, 1940

“The party is on” – The lost Warsaw

The past future

Mao lives

Old Beijing

“I Even Met Happy Gypsies”

Letters go slowly on Russian land

I don’t speak for all Odessa

The last trolleybus

The great voyage

Dubbing

Requisition

Dead bodies' frozen light

The fate of a man

Hydrocycle

For a birthday

Messina, 1908

“He was born when light began to grow”

The language of stamps

Russian Street 4

Explosion at noon

After elections

Soldatenkaffee

Wind from the East

Elections report

Mezuzah

The Red Frankenstein

Odessa, 1931

A cemetery in Kostroma

A simple story

Say no to denatured alcohol

Province, early 80s

The survival of images

In eternal memory

The image of Paris

Dissolving: October trains

Nothing to lose but their chains

Side and reverse

How clear was the world! How it opened up!

The poetry of exaggeration

The villages of yesterday

Tashkent, 1956

Moscow, 1926

The Via dei Falegnami

Moscow, 1956

Past Chinas

Holidays

Romanian: Full Steam

Warsaw memories

Pictures of an era

Russia is for everyone

Dissolving

Dissolving: The Great Leap

A bleeding heart

What did the tovarish say?

The battle of Blosdorf

The Soviet Capa

The Tsar in Paris, 1896

5772

Safe-conduct

Illustrated front postcards

Triangular letters

Memories of others

Souvenir of Hiroshima

They have come!

Silent movie

Ivan Boldyrev: Don Cossacks, 1875-76

Bike craze

Friendship

Thank you and good bye

Johannes Hähle: Kharkov, Lubny, Baby Yar

Sakhalin, 1894-1905

Photo findings from Kostroma

Shooting dictators is a great fun

Drohobycz and the world

Brand

The memory of walls

God is great and I'm not

Crocodiles

Busy Town

Tylko we Lwowie?

Lwów

The Nazi elephant

In the valley of Liébana

Moscow 1900-1960

Romualdas Požerskis

The Lithuanian school

In a different way

Bees against honey

Kommunalki

Doorbells / Timbres

Courtyards of Lwów / Patios de Lwów

Balance of a hundred years

Shadows in Bucharest

Black people in the zoo

The Museum of Censorship

The banality of crime

A killer game

Excursion

The German Kharkov

With joint forces

Peace and conflict

The enemy

Frescoes rediscovered

D-day

This was brought by the railway

Russkaya doroga

World history in local view

Paleocyclists

The photographic night

Dandy horse

Come on, Kathy, the hurdy gurdy's playing

Come out to Óbuda

Old world games

Peterhof

Tsarskoe Selo

Tengri, the blue sky

Moscow, 1931

Passion play

Scout cards

Soviet photo, 1926

Three generations

Language

Who was Essad Bey?

Santiago de Baku

Return of Novruz

Ideal cities

Farewell

After siege 2

After siege

Brave old world

Good wishes

Balance

Gambling

Prison cards

It’s winter

The sea

Cartes de visite

Red sludge

Alter

Hurdy gurdy

Estampitas

An Ottoman shoebox

Chronicler of the Caucasus

The day of the dead

Autumn in Lwów

Filantropía

Philanthropy

Faces from the past

Damascus anno

Autumn in Baku

Vox populi

Our brave firefighters

Our troops standing at Gaza!

Los «Nepmen»

Nepmen

Little music box

And the children

The Calatrava

The cantors of Kipnis

A house in Krakow

Happiness

Greetings

Base and superstructure

Slides from Russia

The last coronation

Graffiti

Trains found

Little people

Kimono

Compatibility

Paper soldiers

World revolution for children

Equivalents

I, Anna Csillag

Service day and night

Three sisters

Zaraza

There is a city

Parade

Decollete blondes are more touching

House-warming

Beard science

Crisis? What Crisis?

May 9

The zorzal

Pharmacy history

Camí des Correu

Funeral March

Night of the bards

The Casino of Kőbánya

Bookmobile

Your Russian primer

Simple means

Two poems by Miroslav Holub

Twenty-four

But before that and before everything else I wanted to make my pilgrimage to the house which at that time meant for me Libeň and Prague

The first blow

Sursum corda

Great Patriotic War

History sung

Entre chien et loup

Conversation

A former user of the pocketbook marked two places with pencil crosses. The smaller cross falls between the questions “Do they [that is, the enemy] have war dogs?” and “Do they have carrier pigeons?”, perhaps slightly closer to the dogs. The larger cross stands beside the question “Where is the general staff (headquarters)?”

And on earth peace

Educational film

Clematis Sociology 2. Uno Kivistik, Estonia; Mihail Ivanovich Orlov, Ukraine

Clematis Sociology 1. Stefan Franczak S.J., Poland

Kassa, Main Street 1.

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