Горки Ленинские / Lenin Hills 1950

Горки Ленинские 1950-е Фотографии Cемен Фридлянд Lenin Hills in 1950 Photographs by Semyon Friedland These are not such a collection of historical photographs as the house and grounds had been turned into a museum soon after the death of Lenin in 1924. However, I like them very much as they have a soft glow about them and show how light and airy the rooms are….. The estate of Gorki belonged to various Muscovite noblemen from the 18th century. Zinaida Morozova, the widow of Savva Morozov, purchased it in 1909, the year before she married General Anatoly Reinbot (later Anatoly Rezvoy) the Moscow head of police. She engaged the most fashionable Russian architect, Fyodor Schechtel, to remodel the mansion in the then current Neoclassical style, complete with a six-column Ionic portico. After the Soviet government moved to Moscow in 1918 it nationalized the luxurious estate and converted it into Vladimir Lenin’s dacha. In September 1918 the Soviet leader recuperated there follow