Friday, November 12, 2010

Moscow, 1937

Frunze Military Academy building, designed by Lev Rudnev and Vladimir Muntz (see War & Navy Commissariat).
Decorative tank was demolished in 1941. Lives of many Academy graduates were destroyed much earlier, during the Great Purges.
Photograph by Ivan Shagin

2 comments:

-Warren Zoell said...

I gotta say that is cool.

Lord K said...

Cool shot, taken in not-so-cool era.