In this collection you can find very different kinds of women: Actresses and Schoolgirls, revolutionary, and aristocrat, ballet dancer and housewife. But they all share beauty, forever captured through the art of photography and has been lovingly restored and expanded by talented master color painting.
Artist Olga Shirnina revives in old photographs of the lost palette of life. Lovingly painted her old pictures like get a second life, aristocratic face thoroughbred beauties of the Russian Empire gain flesh and blood, become more modern and closer.
Ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska.
A fashionable lady of Kashin (Tver region, Russia), 1900s.
Ballerina Agrippina Vaganova.
A student of the Alexander Institute for noble maidens, St. Petersburg.
Alexandra Kollontai (revolutionary).
Anastasia Anastasia Vyaltseva, mezzo-soprano.
Ballerina Anna Pavlova with her pet.
Anna Pavlova in the image of "the Dying Swan".
Baroness of Graevenitz in Russian costume, 1900.
Beautiful lady from Russia.
Countess Sofia Vyazemskaya, late 1900-ies.
Elizabeth Kologrivov, the Russian writer and translator.
Student of the Institute for noble maidens, St. Petersburg.
Marietta Of Decent, 1900-1917.
The Georgian Princess Maria prokofievna Eristov-Shervashidze.
Mathilde Kschessinska.
Girl from the North Caucasus.
Girl from Saratov.
A student of the Alexander Institute for noble maidens, St. Petersburg.
Siberian.
Princess Zinaida Yusupova.
Ballerina Tamara Karsavina.
Young Russian bride, 1903
Again, Anna Pavlova, 1905 to 1910
Actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya.
Anna Pavlova at home, 1910s
Anna Pavlova in the ballet "Pharaoh's Daughter", 1910.
Ibid.
The bride of captain Dashkov.
Larisa Reisner (revolutionary, journalist and poet).
Portrait of a young Russian woman, 1910.
Faith Cold, silent film star, 1910s
Anna Pavlova in Russian costume, 1911.
Vera Kholodnaya, 1916.
Tamara Karsavina in costume of bride from the ballet "the Blue God".