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

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

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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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya.

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

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

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

Ballerina Agrippina Vaganova.

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

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

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

Alexandra Kollontai (revolutionary).

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

Anastasia Vyaltseva, mezzo-soprano.

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

Ballerina Anna Pavlova with her pets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baroness Graivenitz in Russian costume, 1900.

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

A beautiful lady from Russia.

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

Countess Sofia Vyazemskaya, late 1900s.

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

Elizaveta Kologrivova, Russian writer and translator.

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

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

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

Marietta Dekins, 1900-1917.

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

Georgian Princess Maria Prokofievna Eristova-Shervashidze.

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

Matilda Kshesinskaya.

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

A girl from the North Caucasus.

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

A girl from Saratov.

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

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

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

Siberian.

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

Princess Zinaida Yusupova.

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

Ballerina Tamara Karsavina.

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

The Young Russian bride, 1903

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

Anna Pavlova again, 1905-1910.

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

Actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya.

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

Anna Pavlova at home, 1910s.

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

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

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

In the same place.

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

The bride of Captain Dashkov.

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

Larisa Reisner (revolutionary, journalist and poet).

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

Portrait of a young Russian woman, 1910.

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

Vera Kholodnaya, silent film star, 1910s

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

Anna Pavlova in a Russian costume, 1911.

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

Vera Kholodnaya, 1916.

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

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

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

Anna Pavlova, 1913.

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

Vera Fokina in the ballet "Carnival", 1914.

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

Vera Kholodnaya, 1918.

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