Anna Pavlova and other beauties of Tsarist Russia in colorized archival photos

This collection contains very different women: actresses and college girls, revolutionaries and aristocrats, ballerinas and housewives. But all of them are united by beauty, forever captured thanks to the art of photography and lovingly restored and multiplied by a talented master of color painting.

The artist Olga Shirnina revives the lost palette of life in old photographs. The old pictures lovingly painted by her seem to get a second life, the aristocratic faces of thoroughbred beauties of the times of the Russian Empire acquire blood and flesh, become more modern and closer. 

Ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya.

A fashionable lady from Kashin (Tver region, Russia), 1900s.

Ballerina Agrippina Vaganova.

A student of the Alexander Institute of Noble Maidens, St. Petersburg.

Alexandra Kollontai (revolutionary).

Anastasia Vyaltseva, mezzo-soprano.

Ballerina Anna Pavlova with her pets.

Anna Pavlova in the image of a "Dying Swan".

Baroness Graivenitz in Russian costume, 1900.

A beautiful lady from Russia.

Countess Sofia Vyazemskaya, late 1900s.

Elizaveta Kologrivova, Russian writer and translator.

Student of the Institute of Noble Maidens, St. Petersburg.

Marietta Dekins, 1900-1917.

Georgian Princess Maria Prokofievna Eristova-Shervashidze.

Matilda Kshesinskaya.

A girl from the North Caucasus.

A girl from Saratov.

A student of the Alexander Institute of Noble Maidens, St. Petersburg.

Siberian.

Princess Zinaida Yusupova.

Ballerina Tamara Karsavina.

The Young Russian bride, 1903

Anna Pavlova again, 1905-1910.

Actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya.

Anna Pavlova at home, 1910s.

Anna Pavlova in the ballet "Pharaoh's Daughter", 1910.

In the same place.

The bride of Captain Dashkov.

Larisa Reisner (revolutionary, journalist and poet).

Portrait of a young Russian woman, 1910.

Vera Kholodnaya, silent film star, 1910s

Anna Pavlova in a Russian costume, 1911.

Vera Kholodnaya, 1916.

Tamara Karsavina in a bride costume from the ballet "Blue God".

Anna Pavlova, 1913.

Vera Fokina in the ballet "Carnival", 1914.

Vera Kholodnaya, 1918.

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