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The year is 2017 and Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan is busy cleaning the congestion of its ancestral home. She dropped suddenly on something she had never been expected she would find. A big box filled with images that tell the story of the turbulent life of his mother. What she does not know is that the images also give up a revealing light on the lives of people of the Soviet Union. Wait for you to discover the secrets hidden deeply.

Childhood

Asya was born in a linguist named Melvar Melkumyan and Masha Ivashintsova. She was supposed to have a normal childhood like other children but fate had something else for her. His parents liked Aysa but unfortunately failed to love each other. This led to a setback in Aysa's life that left a very deep hollow.

Early separation

Aysa was just a little girl when her parents decided to separate. The family has been broken. While Masha, Aysa's mother decided to stay in Leningrad - a Russian city (now Petersburg), Aysa with her father moved to Moscow, 450 km long km from her mother.

The capital

At the time when Aysa moved to Moscow, it was the capital of the Soviet Union and was located in the Soviet Soviet Federal Republic. It was a great territory and life, there were many different cities.

Collapse of the Soviet Union

It was in 2000 when Aysa's mother died and at that time, the Soviet Union had collapsed and a new Russia was starting to take its place. Life was now about to change aysa because the 21st century had seen her twilight and had something new to offer.

A difficult life

Masha died of cancer at the age of 58. According to what AHA said toMy modern environmentIt was an end to a quite difficult and bumpy life. Aysa could not bear what her mother went through and the only thing Aysa wanted was to forget the past and the torments that her mother had faced.

Move

"All that reminded me that she has caused a great pain and my only desire back was to erase everything that belonged to her about my sight." She hid all her business in an attic from her family only to find her after nearly two decades.

In time

Asya could never have known what she was on which she was about to find when she decided to get out of useless things that have been hidden in the store for so many years now. A box that stored all his mother's business.

The secret box

Aysa has found a collection of films preserved very safely inside the labeled envelopes. These must have been kept by his mother and with these rollers, Aysa also found other property from his mother. These were the things that Aysa herself had put here but find them after so many years was still a revelation.

Reluctant to deepen

Aysa still had not exceeded his mother's death and did not want to go back to memories. "I did not want to look at them since I was afraid that it brings back all the memories," she said. She was reluctant to find what images did the negatives shoot.

A hidden treasure

Despite the reluctance of Aysa to reveal the photos, her husband Egor believed that the photos hold something important and valuable and he easily borrowed a scanner to reveal the glory of detained images.

Still fragile

Egor could have been interested in finding but Aysa was still fragile when she came to her mother's memory. It took enough time for her to appreciate the meaning of photos. "My pain did not allow me to see," she finished saying, "I immediately imagined the fragility of my mother, her emotional bitterness."

A treasure that comes to life

Finally, Egor started bringing the negatives to life and Aysa managed to make fun of seeing his mother's legacy, as painful as it could be. Soon, it was obvious that what they had stumbled were not ordinary photographs. The collection consisted of 30,000 incredible underdeveloped negatives.

A life through images

The images were accompanied by newspapers that touched the life of Masha in the Soviet Union. Aysa had an experience of experiencing her mother's life through her pictures and words. Although it is obvious that the world had changed, the past seemed to be another world.

Outdoors

After what Aysa had experienced, she decided to share it with the world. The album was soon released on the internet and his surprise, she gathered a reception she had never thought. When developed in photos, the negatives have shown revealing the typical lifestyle of the Soviet Union.

The Russian Revolution

It was this revolution that changed the face of Russia for good and it was the moment we saw the Bolshevik government increase power. Five years after this upheaval, the Soviet Union was formed. Masha was born in 1942, who was 25 years after the Russian revolution.

The Cold War

The Soviet Union gradually extended its reach in most of Europe at the end of the Second World War. But the future was expecting uncertainties. At the moment when Masha was born, the Cold War Period had resumed, while the territory was about to become the epicenter of a major political and social change.

An early start

Masha had started clicking on these photos at the age of 18. This is how the 30,000 photos have been stored in a negative. She was a very lively photographer and she clicked on everything she had bother and that's why these photos revealed such a nature of normal life. Children, the elderly, men going to work, she clicked on everything that spoke of life.

Royalty Snatched

The family of Masha was once a reputed answer and had a fortune, but when the revolution occurred, all the aristocracies and the opulent accommodations they owned were confiscated and they had gone with a very humble neighborhood. The camera, although remained the most expensive ownership of Masha.

High aspirations

Although the family has been defeated by all wealth and luxury, they still had high aspirations. For the wish of his grandmother, Masha was made to join the ballerina tutorials. The family was convinced that this would reveal a bad choice for his career so shortly after his grandmother died, Masha was transferred to a technical school.

A theater criticism

Mahsa found his first job as an artist and theater critic. She was in the arts and found her rewarding work. Everything was fine when Masha had to face something that made her life so unhappy that her daughter was until today afraid to look in her past.

The reverse

It was only after a few years that the Masha family realized that she was suffering from a mental disorder. Now started the tedious trip from Aysa's mother. Life after the revelation wen your becomes difficult. Although Masha struggled to live a normal life, the Soviet Union grew up a jump and limits.

Underground photography

Until 1960, Masha captured several images representing the light and the lives of the people of the Soviet Union, but she found himself by capturing the movement of poetry that flourished in the city for more than two decades. This underground life in Leningrad gave him the most fascinating content of his photos and were the images that the wonder source when they were released.

Crook

Khrushtchev Thaw was a period when creative communities of writers, painters and philosophers were forced to stay underground. Many important creative personalities have contributed to this movement. Viktor Krivulin is a kind of poet and novelist famous in this movement. It was a widely read writer and an important figure in the underground stage.

The unstable relationship

Masha and Viktor entered a romantic relationship that lasted a little long but was full of ups and downs. Over the years, their relationship ended and relaxed many times, but there had to be a reason why they blocked together. Then, was another phase that added situations in the life of Masha.

The wedding

Even after Viktor finally married another woman, his relationship with Masha continued, with the same turbulence. It was a few years later, when another creation captured the heart of Masha. In 1972, Masha started a relationship with Boris Smelov. It was another big name in the underground creative corridor.

The duo

Boris was a photographer like Masha. He was a famous photographer, but his constant fight with the Union authorities became a serious problem for his profession. In time, he could only present his work in illegal and illegal exhibitions. But Boris continued to remain popular among underground artists.

Another grief

Then came another sorrow that broke him forever and she started to feel that love was not made for her. The same year when Masha divorced Aysa's father, she broke with Boris. It was his love for these three men and the feeling of not being able to live with any of them who gave him a difficult period. It kept his sad until the end of his life.

Inhibition

Each of the men who were in a relationship with Macha was a big name. Famous for the role they had played in the creative world. This makes the Masha constantly saw under their shadow. It made him a little reluctant to present his photos in the open air. This is why the negatives have never been revealed to another living soul.

The introverted genius

Aysa believes that her mother was a genius but she never realized herself. It never leaves the world to see what it came from within. Mahsa herself accepts that when in a note in his diary, she says:

"I loved without memory, I never had any memory for myself, but always for others." This reflects the disinterested mother of Aysa's mother transported.

Disintegration of health

In 1981, the health of Masha had seen a new down. Soon, she was unemployed and since unemployment was a criminal offense, Masha was given to choose between a medical facility or the prison cell. Masha chose to spend his life in the center of mental rehabilitation than behind the bars. Life could not have been more cruel to Aysa's mother.

Ten years of torture

The following 10 years have been very disturbing for Masha. It has become seriously difficult for her to face the hospital's system and discipline. The strict hospital regime started breaking slowly and the fight was now survival. His mental health and broken trust slowly rendered his handle on life slowly. It was time when she would abandon.

Yet another change

Although Masha struggled to deal with situations, the world around her witnessed another change. Russia saw that Mikhail Gorbachev rides in power and with him to become the head of the Soviet Union, the state of Russia has embarked on a trip of political and economic reforms. The underground world of a literary group of people who had hidden from the center of power gradually started to facilitate.

Change clicked on

The state is changing rapidly under the rule of Gorbachev and Masha by clicking on all it has seen from the sentence. The photographs of Masha talk about the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Leningrad who changes to St. Petersburg and Boris Yeltsin take over the President of the President of the Newly Formed Russian Federation.

Passion postpone

The Soviet Union had become a past thing but Masha did not give up his camera. She continued to click on these photographs that today speaks to us about the changing life of the people that the state changed. The Masha photos click are the mirror of the lifestyle and the Russian culture. Every little detail that Masha has focused its lenses today are facts of the study.

Random jobs

The photograph could have been the passion of Masha and she could have pursued her until the end of her life but passion sometimes does not pay for rent. She will soon find strange baths that would pay for a square meal. Throughout his life, she was based on various jobs because she could not stick to an accounting for her physical health and mental problems.

THE REAL TALENT

For a while, Masha has worked as a design engineer, a librarian, an elevator mechanic and even a security guard. His real talent was hidden from the world until his daughter found the coils composed of brilliant photographs clicked by Masha. Aysa is now working to make sure that his mother's work is shown in the world and receives the recognition given to him.

The equipment

Masha belonged to a favorite family for the beginning of his life and who made it afford the best of equipment for his passion. She used a Rolleiflex camera or Leica IIIC camera for basic photography, but some of her photos were also clicked with Ikoflex or Zorki. They were very popular equipment manufactured in the Soviet Union itself. The film that was used to capture these images was Svema. It has been manufactured in Ukraine.

Acknowledgement

Bring to life, such a vast volume of work was itself a difficult task. When Aysa met the image for the first time, she was not a mood to share with the world. But possibly, she realized that the sharing of her mother's work with the world will give her fame and recognition she did not receive in her life.

A hand

They were thousands of photographs that had to be published for the world. The work was not easy and AySa would need help as many people as possible. Her husband and she asked each maintenance hand they could and finally managed to gather a group of friends who were happy to force.

The work begins

Aysa with her husband hired some assistants and went to work laborious archiving, sweeping and exposure thousands of these photographs. The work was tedious but the dedication of Aysa was to bring to the work of her mother on light showed her the way and things are going well.

Unknown treasure

The team works tirelessly in the images, but the amazing part is that even with so many months of hard and painful work, the work is still not accomplished. Thousands of photos still have to be published and who knows what treasures and secrets the remaining photos can reveal.

In the life of Masha

For Aysa, these photos are more than an explanation in the past, but a perspective of his mother's life. Aysa said that for his photograph of his mother was part of life. She clicked on photos as if she breathed. It was an important process. She also believes that her mother was sticking to photography until the last life of her life because she gave hope against everything that was wrong in her life.

The diary

More than the photos, Aysa believes that his mother's newspaper said a lot of his life. She left all on the pages of her diary. His struggles, his fight, his love, his photos and his life. His vulnerability was all visible through his words. After all, she had made her mother go to her mother, she always feels she could have done more to make life easier.

Ignored while living

The photos were exuberant and dynamic. Everything proved that she was good at her job, but she lived that she did not have the importance and that's why Aysa believes that it is really important to put it for life and work. Being his daughter, he was his duty to give life to his inheritance.

Acquire reputation

Fortunately, their hard work has paid and the website and social media experienced significant growth in followers and admirers. Masha's work is now available online for the world to see. In addition to the online fame, the photos have also found their way to the Exhibitions of the Polish city of Bydgoszcz and New York.

Mixed blessings

The website has drawn a lot of attention. The reactions were flooded but with so many people following the blog, the reactions had to be mixed. Many people were talking about his job now. Some of them even judged. With all that came from his way, Aysa has only one thing to say: "But at the same time, I'm sure she would be grateful for this assessment and support from all regions of the world."

Vivian Maier

The story of Masha looks like the famous Vivian Maier. His work was also unrecognized as she was alive, but after his death, more than 150,000 photos clicking through her through her life were revealed and instantly became a shot. She was an American woman whose photos were made up of the city's life through New York and Los Angeles.

His fascinating lens

The streets of Chicago in the 1950s and 60s are all covered with his work and give an overview of the vibrant life of the city of that time. The work of Mahsa seeks to do the same for the Soviet Union and, fortunately, he receives the applaud that missed when Mahsa was alive. His fascinating lens that saw the world differently now for us to enjoy.