Darkroom Prints: St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow, 1961 Vintage essential collection of images and

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The morning light filters through the window of a minimally decorated bedroom adorned with yellow curtains and a neatly arranged bed

alongside rituals unchanged for centuries

The streets become empty

Darkroom Prints: St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow, 1961 Vintage essential collection of images andIn 1959, American photographer Burt Glinn captured several notable moments of the Cold War, including Fidel Castro's march on Havana and Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the US. Two years later, in 1961, Glinn photographed the USSR including Moscows Red Square. In this image, the silhouette of St. Basils Cathedral looms in the background while soldiers and civilians walk the streets. Captured by Glinn on its quadricentennial, the cathedral built by order