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Casque d'Or (Jacques Becker, 1952)

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Evelyn Nesbit

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Lauren Bacall for The Big Sleep, 1946.

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Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival, 1968.

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Ahhh are you back? I knew you from instagram years back but I just found this tumblr and it being active, are you still taking submissions?

Hey! I do come back here once in a while to post submissions but people have stopped sending them for now. I do take new submissions though, I just don't write the posts myself anymore because I don't have the time, I let people do it. :)

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Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia

Son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and his wife Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna. He was born on 10th June 1894 in Strelna.

Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia

Son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and his wife Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna. He was born on 10th June 1894 in Strelna.

He was brought up along with his older brother Prince Oleg Konstantinovich, who was two years older than him. They spent a lot of time together, sharing games and children’s toys. Prince Igor also loved animals from childhood, especially horses. While Igor was more calm, thoughtful, sentimental, and vulnerable. He waa enrolled at Page Corps, for which Prince Igor was very proud that he was now a military man, and he did not hide his joy. That at one occasion, having visited the imperial family in the new uniform, he would have traditionally wanted to kiss the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, but, remembering the instructions of the nanny, she bounced to the side: “No, no. Little girls should not kiss soldiers.” Prince Igor was not at all upset, but, on the contrary, was very pleased that he was mistaken for a real soldier. Igor loved church singing and possessing a good ear for music and voice, he willingly took part in festive services. He was so fond of the church and worship that in adolescence be was appointed clerk of the field church. He was later a clerk of the church of the Pavlovsk Palace. After graduating from the Page Corps, the Prince passed the exam for an officer and was enrolled in the Life Guards Hussar Regiment. It was in his composition that he went to the First World War. Prince Igor was the youngest representative of the Romanov dynasty in the First World War, he was only twenty years old when he went to the front. But he later suffered from pleurisy, the Prince was sent on vacation for treatment to Petrograd. He also witnessed the death of his favourite brother, Oleg. Which sent their father to an early grave.

After the death of his father, Prince Igor took care of all the economic affairs of Ostashevo, which had been his father’s estate. After recovering from his illness, he later became the Tsar’s wing-adjutant. Prince Igor had a good-natured, disposing character, the Tsar was very happy when Igor was on duty with him. Even colleagues at the front called the Prince "a cheerful person."

Prince Igor Konstantinovich was one of the several Romanovs murdered in 1918.

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Geneviève Vix as Circe, photographed by Léopold Reutlinger c. 1907.

Source : @die-rosastrasse / @gretagarbos

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Carnival of souls (1962)

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Cabinet card of an unknown man, c. 1890-1892.

Loryea Bros, San Jose, CA.

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German composer Johannes Brahms, circa 1853-1855.

Robert-Schumann-Haus, Zwickau

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Andrea Laudano, arrested for larceny on July 21st 1904, North Shields Police Station.

From an album of photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives.

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men with sad brown eyes + mustaches appreciation

[1880s-1960s]

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Franco Corelli (8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003) was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated universally for his powerhouse voice, electrifying top notes, clear timbre, passionate singing and remarkable performances. Dubbed the "prince of tenors", audiences were enchanted by his handsome features and charismatic stage presence. He had a long and fruitful partnership with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1961 and 1975. He also appeared on the stages of most of the major opera houses in Europe and with opera companies throughout North America. (*This is the best biography I can find...but I’m sure there are better ones online )

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TSAR NICHOLAS I OF RUSSIA.

Nicholas Pavlovich Romanov known as Tsar Nicholas I (6 July 1796 – 2 March 1855) reigned as Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855. He was also the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. 

Nicholas was born at Gatchina Palace in Gatchina to Grand Duke Paul, and Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia. Five months after his birth, his grandmother, Catherine the Great, died and his parents became emperor and empress of Russia. He was a younger brother of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, who succeeded to the throne in 1801, and of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia. On 13 July 1817, Nicholas married Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1798–1860), who thereafter went by the name Alexandra Feodorovna when she converted to Orthodoxy. Nicholas had a happy marriage that produced a large family; all of their seven children survived childhood.

On 1825 Nicholas brother's Tsar Alexander died with no heirs and the Russian throne passed to his brother Constantine who renouced. After Constantine's renouce Nicholas became Tsar of all Russias on 1825. Nicholas' biographer Nicholas V. Riasanovsky said that he displayed determination, singleness of purpose, and an iron will, along with a powerful sense of duty and a dedication to very hard work. He saw himself as a soldier—a junior officer totally consumed by spit and polish. He was highly nervous and aggressive. Trained as an engineer, he was a stickler for minute detail. In his public persona, stated Riasanovsky, "Nicholas I came to represent autocracy personified: infinitely majestic, determined and powerful, hard as stone, and relentless as fate."

Nicholas was known as a gorgeous man, Riasanovsky says he was, "the most handsome man in Europe, but also a charmer who enjoyed feminine company and was often at his best with the men."

Nicholas died on 2 March 1855, during the Crimean War, at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. He caught a chill, refused medical treatment and died of pneumonia, although there were rumors he was committing a passive suicide by refusing treatment. He was buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

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Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000).

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Unknown man, c. 1890's.

From my personal collection.

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Buster Keaton posing as the Venus De Milo, c. 1932.

(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)