Comments on: Lost Marvels of Revolution-Era Russian Theater

By: Tertiary

Tertiary — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:55:57 +0000

Turn of the century ballet had the most amazing costumes.

By: The Germanova Saga « Ghosts in the garden & fairy tales from the shadows

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:02:14 +0000

[...] correspondent Angeliska Polachek and part of a “lost marvels of the Russian Revolution” article. Since then I had carefully compiled a great deal of research and supplemental data and then [...]

By: choklit

choklit — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:22:59 +0000

*sigh* I could stare at images like this all day. Already plotting… just how can I construct a headdress like that?

By: Miguel Gonzalez

Miguel Gonzalez — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:01:16 +0000

Eeriely beautiful.

By: Tequila

Tequila — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:56:59 +0000

Oh wow, these are some beautiful costumes. Would have loved to see them on stage in all their eye pleasing glory. The first and last images are transfixing but I’m partial to the middle four…would love to live in a world were that was part of the everyday world.

Great find!

By: ghoul next door

ghoul next door — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:29:50 +0000

Holy Jeez! This was the last thing I expected to see when I ran through all my bookmarked “weird” blogs this morning! I feel I would be remiss in mentioning that I came across the lovely image of Maria Germanova (name unknown to me at the time) when I was tooling around netflix and came across an individual with tastes very similar to mine; she was using a cropped version of the above as an icon, and I have been obsessed with finding the original ever since. As an aside this individual has an an exhaustive repertoire of film reviews, many of which I am sure would be of interest to Coilhouse readers, because they are just “those kinds of movies”. Of course I mean that in the best and most flattering way.

Oh! I found this 1909 playbill design by artist Frederick Cayley Robinson for The Bluebird a few days ago – lovely, eh? http://ghoulnextdoor.tumblr.com/post/202705074

By: annie

annie — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:03:04 +0000

i saw that image on the most perfect angeliska’s site last night + nearly fell out of my chair. i would give my right eye and at least a couple of teeth to travel back in time and sit in the audience of blue bird.

(funnily, i was just working on a photo this week that i was considering titling “blue bird of happiness”. tiny worlds.)

By: Fausty

Fausty — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:12:32 +0000

A somewhat similar genre find that has been fascinating me lately: Soviet era moral/political books, recently rediscovered and scanned:

http://www.cultureghost.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4939

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