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Lenin's bodyguard
Ivan Aleekseevich Vladimirov, painter of the pictures in the previous post: Hungarian soldier, 1915The realistic images of the siege of the Winter Palace reminded me that it’s time to repay an old debt...
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Les exilées
Album de famille:• Hong-Kong, Po-Chou, 1897• Marseille, Félix Nadar, 1900Quand j’étais petite fille, elle était une très vieille dame aux cheveux toujours noirs et au visage poudré de blanc. Je...
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The exiled
Family album:• Hong Kong, Po-Chou, 1897• Marseille, Félix Nadar, 1900When I was a little girl, she was a very old lady with still black hair and white-powdered face. However I listened to her, I did...
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Capodanno, capodanno
La rivista letteraria e culturale Biblioteca d’Israele, che già in questa primavera ha aperto la sezione Il mondo dello Shtetl – The world of Shtetl per gli articoli assunti dal nostro blog che...
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New Year, New Year
The Italian literary and cultural journal Biblioteca d’Israele, which already in the spring opened the section Il mondo dello Shtetl – The world of Shtetl for the posts received from our blog and...
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Kamenets-Podolsk
“As if a hurricane had swept away the tiny houses around Stephen Báthory’s huge, seven-storey tower, next to the Windy Gate. This tower was once built on the command of a Hungarian king, who was a...
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Dissolving
Cave homes in the Iranian KandovanBarcelona, Casa Battló, Gaudíauf Deutsch• magyarul
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Kőbánya
On the splendor and fall of Kőbánya we have already written, but we will also write more soon.auf Deutsch• magyarul
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2013 Is Your Year!
(poster of an accounting software company with champion boxer István Kovács / Kokó)The Crisis Is Over! 2013 Is Your Year!For you, Kokó. We are killed by the taxes!We wish a much happier New Yearto all...
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Burech Bendit
I came across this postcard, published in Czernowitz around 1900, only a few days ago, just at the right time, as we shall see. The white-bearded rabbi’s picture would not be unusual in the...
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Future reloaded
On the occasion of New Year I have updated the future, and put on the map the few more postcards found during the year, which faithfully represent how the cities of Hungary should look if the past...
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Kamenets-Podolsk
“Como si un tornado hubiera barrido las casitas alrededor de la enorme torre de Stephen Báthory, de siete pisos, al lado de la Puerta de los Vientos. Esta torre fue construida en otro tiempo, bajo...
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Мин нет
In the eighties, when I started to walk about the city, still there were plenty of them, if faded into the plaster, or shown through the painting. Blown with a cutout pattern or painted by hand, with...
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Two feasts
This post should be actually given the title “The power of images”, because this is what I want to talk about.Or, what title would you give to a post that would publish just the two photos of these two...
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Obverse and reverse
The previous part…• My first thought was: Wow, in singlet at the dinner table? Well, they have sunken this far…• Sunken? On the contrary, the faces and the whole company are much warmer, more human,...
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Christmas greetings
A Russian Christmas card from Lemberg in a Finno-Ugric language, 1916Ninety-five years ago, on 6 January 1918, the feast of the Orthodox Christmas, Sándor Kégl, the greatest Hungarian Iranist received...
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Съ Рождествомъ Христовымъ
Русская рождественская открытка в финно-угорском языке из Львова, 1916Девяносто пять лет назад, 6 января 1918 года, в праздник Рождества Христова, Шандор Кегль, самый известный венгерский...
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The witness
The Hermann Café on the ground floor of the Casino of Kőbánya around 1910Do you remember the post about the Casino of Kőbánya, the former center of the cultural life of my native industrial...
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Père – et père
Alba, Piémont, 1867Album de famille:• Alba 1867• Hong-Kong, 1897• Marseille, 1900• Buenos Aires, 1930Il fut le tout petit garçon au centre de l’image. Aujourd’hui rangé de sa vie aventureuse, il colle...
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Father – and father
Alba, Piedmont, 1867Family album:• Alba, 1867• Hong Kong, 1897• Marseille, 1900• Buenos Aires, 1930He was the little boy in the center of the image. Today, his adventurous life stowed, he sticks photos...
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