Yevgeny Khaldei

Three Flags of Khaldei

Yesterday I posted about Khaldei and three tableclothes-cum-flags he took from Moscow to Berlin. Here's how they went up in Berlin:…

13 years ago

Yevgeny Khaldei and Hermann Goering

Best known for his Reichstag flag rising picture, Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997) was the premier Red Army photographer from 1939 to 1948.…

15 years ago

Shellshocked Reindeer, Murmansk

World War Il planes bomb a hillside while a shellshocked reindeer looks on. Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997). At the first glance, it is…

15 years ago

The Red Flag over the Reichstag, 1945

When he saw Joe Rosenthal’s photos of flag raising on Iwo Jima, Stalin wanted a similar image to commemorate the…

15 years ago