ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 11月7日 00時06分

Romanov Memorial, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 1992. Photo by @peteressick. On July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children were killed in a small house by the Bolshevik police. This was the beginning of Communist rule in the Soviet Union.In 1992, as the 75 th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution neared, the grand social experiment was unraveling. I spent three months traveling throughout the Soviet Union during this historic and turbulent time. My assignment for National Geographic Magazine was to photograph some of the original Bolsheviks, as well as some of the historical places and markers of the revolution. My original idea was to try to see the Bolsheviks from an objective eye, even though I knew that was impossible. I am an American and was brought up that communism was wrong both morally and politically. The original writings of the Bolsheviks talked about ending the tyranny of the Tsarist rule, implementing universal health care, free day care, equality for women, worker's and peasants' rights. That didn't sound all that bad. In the end, I did find a few noteworthy examples of positive change, and some of the old Bolsheviks still thought that the original ideas were good but they were never implemented properly. However, the longer I stayed in the Soviet Union the more I came to see the hollowness of the system. After photographing in many depressing factories and markets, after talking to one dispirited person after another, any sense of trying to be objective about such a demoralizing way of life withered away. The photo was taken at a small memorial near the site where the Romanov family was killed. The picture on the cross is of Alexis who was the heir to the throne. This was the only story I have done for NG on a political movement, but it has made me wary of extremism in politics, left or right.

[BIHAKUEN]UVシールド(UVShield)

>> 飲む日焼け止め！「UVシールド」を購入する