Klyuev And Yesenin, Petrograd, Russian Empire, 1915.

Klyuev and Yesenin, Petrograd, Russian Empire, 1915.

The two poets had a complicated relationship, although Yesenin considered Klyuev his teacher and senior comrade, but after he achieved fame and success, their paths diverged.

War correspondent Winston Churchill serving in South Africa. Bloemfontein, 1900.

Funeral of John F. Kennedy. 1963.

Pushkin's ancestor, of whom the poet was very proud. That same legendary "Blackamoor of Peter the Great" - Abram Petrovich Gannibal. The kidnapped son of an Ethiopian prince, valet and secretary of Peter I, military engineer, mathematician and fortification specialist, participant in the Battle of Poltava, general-in-chief and, finally, the great-grandfather of the poet Alexander Pushkin on his mother's side. The great-grandson admired the diligence and incorruptibility of Gannibal, who managed to become the "confidant, not the slave" of the tsar. He lived about 90 years, outlived seven emperors and empresses, changed his religion twice, and his name three times. The most educated man of his time, Gannibal was a builder of fortresses, supervised the construction of the Ladoga Canal, was the director of the Kronstadt fortress, the commandant of Revel, the Vyborg governor, and the head of the Russian artillery.

Caricature of Solzhenitsyn from the USSR era

Beer advertisement, 1965