History of Russia: The photo exhibition of the Civil War presented in Samara

The photo exhibition dedicated to the events of the Civil War in the Samara region was opened on February 21, 2014 in the M. V. Frunze Samara House-Museum to the 80th anniversary of its creation.

"The exhibition includes works from the museum, made by ​​a little-known Samara photographer Nicholas Khorikov during the Civil War. At his photo is imprinted the protruding in the front of the soldiers in 1919 Mikhail Frunze who came to Samara with the train "The October Revolution" Mikhail Kalinin", - said the press service of the museum.

The exposition also features photos of triumphal arches and obelisks with bas-reliefs of revolutionary figures on Samara streets to celebrate the first anniversary of the October Revolution, a part of the Red Army and the Cheka in 1918.

The exhibition will run till the end of March.

Nicholas Khorikov (1895 - 1942) - a graduate of the Samara City College, teaching photographic art from the famous Moscow photographer Basil Chekhov. After returning to Samara, he worked as a photographer in the Red Army and captured not only the period of hostilities, but also famine in Samara province in 1922.