gorbutovich: New Orthodox Metropolitan of Moscow & brilliant preacher Alexander VVedensky, father of five, w. archdeacon (L) his son by his 1st wife, crossing the triple & double candlesticks for victory, during church service
gorbutovich: Alexander Karov, gen. mgr. of the All-Union Council of Evangelists & Baptists, working at desk under a picture of Russian Communist ldr. Lenin in office
gorbutovich: +View downtown looking up Gorky Street past spires of the Historical Museum (R) towards distant Red Square
gorbutovich: Georgian peasant wearing typical white felt hat on farm. Location- Gori, Russia
gorbutovich: +Darling Russian kindergarten children wearing paper butterflies for a game in which they pretend to fly at the People"s Commissariat of Education
gorbutovich: Technical Institute students passing time by playing music in room which they share w. two other girls at school's dormitory
gorbutovich: +View looking from Red Square down Gorky Street
gorbutovich: Peasant woman prayerfully kissing the feet of baby Jesus in the arms of the Virgin Mary in canopied "Resurrection of the Perished" ikon in Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church
gorbutovich: Congregation of Russian Baptists singing hymn during service at Evangelists & Baptists reformists church
gorbutovich: Technical Institute students passing time by playing chess in room at school's dormitory
gorbutovich: Peasant home which was the birthplace of Russian Communist dictator Joseph Stalin, standing encased as a monument in magnificent marble like some sacred relic shrine, in the Socialist Soviet Republic of Georgia.. Location- Gori, Russia
gorbutovich: Russian cattle herders tending calves roaming pasture nr. Natchik
gorbutovich: Escalators in Metro subway taking commuters up 300 ft. at a speed as much as three times faster than those in US subways
gorbutovich: Russian pedestrians strolling along street of the city. Location- Kislovodsk, Russia
gorbutovich: New Orthodox Metropolitan of Moscow & brilliant preacher Alexander Vvedensky wearing his clerical robes & necklaces as he poses in front of his art collection at home
gorbutovich: Huge concrete statue of a Red Army soldier dominating the grounds of the city's Agricultural Exhibition
gorbutovich: Moscow, Russia_August 1941_Margaret Bourke-White Muscovites listening to war speakers in Park of Culture as they relax outdoors
gorbutovich: Young couple relaxing & enjoying one another after listening to war speakers at rally in the outdoor Park of Culture
gorbutovich: Russian married students at the Technical Institute studyingr courses for Underground Transport as their two young boys play Lotto w. cards having pictures on one side & the name for it on the other, at table in their room in the school's dorm
gorbutovich: Russian movie dir. Gregory Alexandrov standing at table serving food to his wife Lynbov Orlova (3R) & visiting novelist Erskine Caldwell (4L) & several other guests, as maid stands by holding a samovar, at his country home
gorbutovich: Russian movie dir. Gregory Alexandrov chatting w. his movie star wife Lynbov Orlova on porch balcony of their country house, 35 miles outside of Moscow
gorbutovich: Heads of the old Russian Orthodox Church incl. (L-R) Cathedral Dean Nikolas Kotchitsky, Metropolitan of Kiev, Patriarch Sergi & Metropolitan of Leningrad sitting under Sergi's portrait & fine old ikons in his house
gorbutovich: Two Red Army Pvts. sitting in front row w. thousands of other Russians in Dynamo Stadium, watching a soccer game between Dynamo Team & Red Army Team (just name, not connected to the Army)
gorbutovich: +Young peasant sisters posing w. their mother on collective farm
gorbutovich: +Reception room at the Communist Party daily newpaper PRAVDA where women are writing letters of complaint which they will submit, re insufficient housing & too much red tape on their job & an unpublished
gorbutovich: "Renewed" Orthodox deacon waving censer before the Royal Gates of altar screen in ritual similar to the Old Orthodox during Eastern Orthodox Church service
gorbutovich: +Commuters moving along arched Metro subway platform complete w. mosaic inlaided designs between light fixtures & the ceiling, representing airplanes, Kremlin Towers etc. in station at Mayakovsky Square
gorbutovich: +Kremlin gate which contains the Kremlin Post Office
gorbutovich: Old Russian peasant dressed in Georgian military uniform. Location- Gori, Russia
gorbutovich: +Russian peasant woman "Auntie" Dasha holding pad & pencil which she will use to figure out govt. work quotas for herself & other women wielding hoes in a potato field on collective farm