22 photos with a rich history that allow you to look into the past from a different angle

It may seem to many that history is dry facts and figures, but after looking carefully at these photos, it becomes clear that in the past everything was much more lively and interesting than it is written in history textbooks.

"One hundred thousand demonstrators at the monument to Lenin." Baku, Azerbaijan, 1989

Young Adam Sendler

Milla Jovovich uses the Internet in 1995. Little has changed

Kvass trade in Volgograd, 1987

Cannabis harvesting, year unknown, BSSR

Alphonse Mucha necklace in the Art Nouveau style, 1905. Made of opal, cabochon, sapphire, pearl and gold

"Guilty!". Poster, Germany, 1946

Mother brought hot lunch to mechanics while working in the field, 1970s

Martin Luther King's funeral, April 1968

Shepherds from Gascony used stilts to help them walk through swampy terrain, France, 1895

A man throws a 6-year-old girl out of a third-floor window during a fire in a Seoul concert building. The girl escaped, 50 people died in a fire, December 1972

Happy boy, 1993

Ritual crystal dagger, Spain, approximately 3,000 years BC

Antenna repair at the top of the World Trade Center in New York, 1979

A hut on chicken legs. One of the oldest buildings in Hattfjelldal Municipality, Norway

Hydra in Bucharest — this is how the monument to Lenin was redone

The first vocalist of the metal band Gorgoroth in 1994 and now

It's only been 25 years

Anthony Hopkins on the set of the movie "Bunker", USA, 1981

A snack on the set of the movie "Remember everything", 1989

Sid Vicious is photographed with his mother, 1977

Mursi tribal woman watches Vogue magazine for the first time, Ethiopia