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Several days ago I’ve made a post about the LIFE photo archive recently made available by Google to everyone with Web access, and attached an image as illustration. That was a photo from the “Winter in Moscow” series taken by famous American photojournalist Carl Mydans. Today I’ve taken the picture of Kremlin from the same position as Carl did fifty years ago to see what has changed since his trip to Moscow. I’m sorry the angle is not exactly the same – I didn’t have the original photo available with me and I tried to reproduce position close to what I remebered. Here are results.

I’m not sure when exactly Calr Mydans made his photo. From picture it seems that the month is close to what we have now, i. e. November or December, but I easily could be incorrect. But the result is interesting anyway – two photos of winter Moscow divided by an entire epoch…