Egyptian prayer, 1920s

Nikolai Ivanovich Svishtov aka Nikolai Svishtov-Paola :: Egyptian prayer (A. Shapovalova), early 1920s. Original photographic print. Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926, nº 299. RGALI. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement

Aleksander Rumnev, 1920s

Nikolai Ivanovich Svishtov (pseudonym Paola) :: Aleksander Rumnev, Soviet dancer and actor of the Kamerny Theater. Negative medium format, gelatin silver print w/ chemical toning. The picture was probably taken as part of the program “The Art of Movement” (GAKhN, 1924-1927) or earlier (late 1910s). | sources: RGALI collection and Isadora Duncan; the Russian years

Aleksander Rumnev, ca. 1920

Nikolai Ivanovich Svishtov (pseudonym Paola) :: Aleksander Rumnev, Soviet dancer and actor of the Kamerny Theater. Negative medium format, gelatin silver print w/ chemical toning. The pictures were probably taken as part of the program “The Art of Movement” (GAKhN, 1924-1927) or earlier (late 1910s). | sources: RGALI collection and Isadora Duncan; the Russian years

Dancer, Moscow, 1920

Nikolai Ivanovich Svishtov (pseudonym Paola) :: Dancer, Moscow, 1920. (maybe Aleksander Rumnev, Soviet dancer and actor of the Kamerny Thatre) |src Masterpieces of Soviet Photography (2018)