Russian Photo Colorist Brings New Life to Historic Photographs
A former German language professor, Olga Shirnina is best known worldwide by her online alias, klimbim, with which she signs her unique artwork.
Shirnina colors historical photographs using Photoshop, offering a new take on history and the figures that shaped her world. Behind this seemingly straightforward coloring exercise are hours of meticulous research — after all, the eye colors of the Russian imperial family aren’t the first thing mentioned in the history books.
Here is a look at some of the defining moments of Russian history in the colors of the present:
Shirnina colors historical photographs using Photoshop, offering a new take on history and the figures that shaped her world. Behind this seemingly straightforward coloring exercise are hours of meticulous research — after all, the eye colors of the Russian imperial family aren’t the first thing mentioned in the history books.
Here is a look at some of the defining moments of Russian history in the colors of the present:
Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the cultural leader of the Russian revolution, photographed with his agitprop posters.
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Vladimir Lenin (center) and Communist Party Executive Committee Chairman Yakov Sverdlov (left) on Revolution Square in Moscow, November 1918.
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The East Siberian Institute for Noble Maidens in Irkutsk was one of the few institutions in imperial Russia that provided education for girls.
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The Soviet assault on Berlin, April 30, 1945.
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Soviet soldiers in the peaceful summer of 1945.
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A peasant girl in Nikolskoe village in the Leningrad region captured by photographer Alexander Belikov in 1925.
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Soviet leader Josef Stalin (center) at the 15th Bolshevik Party congress in December 1927.
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The July 6, 1936, edition of the Communist Party's official newspaper Pravda lays on the table. On this day, Soviet Russia witnessed the first large-scale football game on Red Square.
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The future Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with his wife Alexandra Feodorovna in 1894.
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