In July 1941, Margaret Bourke-White, a photojournalist for the American magazine "Life", arrived in military Moscow. She worked in unique conditions: with the advent of the war, the filming regime in Moscow became much tougher, for unauthorized filming, as well as for an unsanctioned camera, a tribunal was relied on. But in those days the Kremlin was preparing for important negotiations with the United States, a personal friend and confidant of President Roosevelt was to come to Moscow, and Margaret received permission to shoot images of the warring Soviet Union … The Soviet leadership considered that such pictures in an authoritative overseas magazine will profitably present the USSR to the American public.
Margaret Burke-White spent two months in Moscow. And despite the fact that she was always accompanied, and sometimes prepared in advance for the shooting, she made truly unique shots.
The Luftwaffe raids on the Soviet capital began on July 22, Margaret was able to photograph one of the first, in the picture on July 26. Anti-aircraft fire is being conducted, the searchlight is looking for enemy aircraft. Presumably Margaret took this picture from her issue at the National.
The same night. This picture was allegedly taken from the roof of the British Embassy on Sofiyskaya Embankment.
Soda saleswoman and Muscovites.
The matches are still being played, the championship is not closed.
Gorky street.
Metro station "Ploschad Sverdlova", Muscovites go out into the street after an air raid.
Rear workers, a very famous photograph in the West.
View of Manezhnaya Square and the Kremlin from the window of the National.
Training for sandworms.
Margaret was also allowed into the holy of holies, a place forbidden for ordinary filming - the Moscow metro. The picture shows Muscovites taking cover from another air raid at the Mayakovskaya station.
Entrance to the escalator, Mayakovskaya metro station. Some look back at the unusual sight - a photographer on the subway.
Students in the hostel.
In the lobby of the hotel "Moscow".
Moscow State University.
Students conduct experiments in the aerodynamic laboratory of Moscow State University.
At a lecture on Greek history, Moscow State University.
Heavy equipment pavilion at the agricultural exhibition.
Mongolian farmers at an agricultural exhibition.
On the subway during an air raid.
Outdoor bookstore.
Entrance to Spaso House, the private Moscow residence of the US Ambassador.
Workers at Spaso House remove stained glass windows that were shattered during the raids.
Kremlin in the moonlight.
Young people after listening to military reports in the Park of Culture.
Game of "war" in kindergarten.
Organized for Margaret and a meeting with the chief of staff of the Western Front, who was at the forefront of the main attack, and who fought heavy battles near Smolensk V. D. Sokolovsky, the future Marshal of the Soviet Union.
He's at a banquet in honor of the American delegation.
Old Bolshevik Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky (Dridzo), director of the Soviet Information Bureau and Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov. Arrested in 1949 and shot in 1952.
German soldier Fritz Ehrhardt in a Soviet hospital after being wounded in battle.
Rolf Helmudt, another German soldier.
