On the set of the film “Alexander Nevsky” by Sergei Eisenstein, 19382mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Young Brigitte Bardot visits Pablo Picasso at his studio near Cannes, 19562yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The painter Xavier Martinez works on a portrait of his friend Jack London, 1905. This painting disappeared in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Marcel Pliat, 1916, the only black man to serve in the Russian Imperial Air Force during World War I1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Phone in the trench, 1915, WW1, 4th battery of the 10th Artillery Brigade of the Western Front, Imperial Russian Army1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols and Louise Thaden at the National Air Races, Los-Angeles, 19339mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Baron Rothschild and his brother Leopold de Rothschild (in top hat), 19064mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Joseph Goebbels (center) at the porcelain exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow 1934. Next to him are museum director Felix Koper (left) and director of the Krakow propaganda bureau Tadeusz Spalkowski (right).1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Pauline Cushman (1833-1893), American Actress and Spy for Union Army during American Civil War, Mathew Brady Studio, 18647mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
James Willis, Senior Riding instructor at the St. Petersburg Officer Cavalry School from 1898 to 19091yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Virginia, Army of the Potomac Headquarters Captain Harry Page, Quartermaster. The Halt. May 18644mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
March 27, 1933: George Bernard Shaw, Marion Davies, Louis B Mayer and Clark Gable1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
20th February 1946: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (1900 - 2002), accompanied by the two Princesses, in the royal box for the re-opening of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. They are watching a performance of Sleeping Beauty by the Sadler's Wells Ballet company.1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Rudolph Virchow, German anatomist and anthropologist, Director of the Pathological Institute of Berlin, shown lecturing - for the 200th birthday of Rudolf Virchow (13 October 1821 - 5 September 1902)1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Soviet soldiers inspect the downed Japanese plane. Mongolia, Khalkhin Gol, 19391yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Yma Sumac, Peruvian Singer, Date taken: August 8, 1950, Photographer: Peter Stackpole2wk ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Daguerreotype of Passed Midshipman Kidder Randolph Breese, U.S.N., c. 1852 wearing his naval officers uniform with arms crossed, Breese was on the Perry expedition, during the Civil War served at New Orleans, Vicksburg, Ft. Fischer, and later at the Naval Academy1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Transformation of Fritzes. WW2 poster by Kukryniksy (artist's trio: KUpriyanov, KRYlov, NIKolay Sokolov). 19424d ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
A.P. Chekhov reading his play The Seagull to the artists of the Moscow Art Theater, 18994mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Cast members of The Great Ziegfeld on a beach from left to right: Wanda Perry, Bonnie Bannon, Monica Bannister, Claire Manners, Frances McInerny, Mary Lange and Claire Owens8mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A Soviet village is set on fire during the German advance, photographed on October 28, 19412wk ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
A soviet armored division receiving operational orders prior to the final battle in Berlin, Germany, 19453mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
The extermination of Jews, which had already taken place in Poland and other Nazi-occupied territories, was expanded in the Ukraine immediately after the Nazi attack on the territory of the USSR. In early July 1941, a Jewish pogrom took place in Lvov, during which 2,000 to 6,000 Jews died.2wk ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Grigori Rasputin, Bishop Hermogen and Hieromonk Iliodor in Tsaritsyn, 1909 [1509x1708](colorized)7yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Months before the WW2 began: Feb 1939, Heinrich Himmler and Kordian Zamorski in Warsaw. In Warsaw Himmler met with the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Assistant Under Secretary of State (Arciszewski)7mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Red Army wireman Lipovka M.I. at work in the territory recaptured from the Germans. Photo: Strunnikov1mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Heavy tanks of Soviet troops advance west along the forest roads of Latvia, forcing water barriers, 19448mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Soviet Army girl on traffic duty in the Unter den Linden in Berlin chats with a British soldier during the Allied occupation of the city. July 19451mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Worker and supervisor, car factory, Moscow, USSR, 1954 [1880x2820](colorized)7yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The command of the 3rd shock army, whose troops hoisted the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag. From left to right: Litvinov A.I., Kuznetsov V.I., between them Major General Bukshtynovich.5mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler and his entourage visit a POW camp while on a tour of the Eastern Front. The officer second to the right of Himmler is his Chief of Staff, Karl Wolff. Photographer: Walter Frentz, August 1941, Minsk, USSR3d ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquis of Ripon & (Constance) Gladys, Marchioness of Ripon when Earl and Countess de Grey3yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/Colorization
A soviet armored division receiving operational orders prior to the final battle in berlin, germany, march 19454yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/Colorization
Lenin at the Parade of Vsevobuch Troops on the Red Square on 25 May 19193yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/Colorization
Contingent of the Legion of French Volunteers against USSR leaving for the Eastern Front. Paris, October 19431mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Mata Hari. In February 1917, French authorities arrested her for espionage. In a military trial conducted in July, she was accused of revealing details of the Allies’ new weapon, the tank, resulting in the deaths of thousands of soldiers. She was sentenced to death and executed on October 15.8mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/TheGreatWarChannel
Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub (1920–1991), Soviet World War II fighter ace. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on three occasions8mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Veshnyakov, a Red Army sapper, neutralizes the discovered fascist mine, 1943. Photo by V. Grebnev1mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer of the SS and Chief of the German Police, during his visit to Warsaw. He is accompanied by General Jozef Zamorski, the Chief of the Polish State Police (centre), and Hans von Moltke, the German Ambassador to Poland3yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/Colorization
Maria Aleksandrovna Saltykova, born 1922, senior sergeant, volunteer fighter 2nd Ukrainian Front, 04.19454yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/Colorization
Roza Shanina, Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 59 confirmed kills (colorized)7yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Soviet sniper Semen Nomokonov with his famous smoking pipe, 1942 [1800x1241] (Colorized)8yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Colonel Leonid Brezhnev. During World War II Brezhnev served as a political commissar in the Red Army, advancing in rank until he became a major general and head of the political commissars on the Ukrainian front.1mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics
Axis Hungarian soldiers force Russian civilians in the small village of Polnikovo to dig their own graves before being summarily executed as other villagers are forced to watch the proceedings8mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/wwiipics