Photo Gallery: The Children of the Russian Rich

[MrScorpio]

Vadim on His Roof Terrace, Moscow 2009: "When we came up to the rooftop, it was a beautiful sunny and crisp midday. Vadim asked me how many photos I was planning to shoot, and I answered ‘maximum ten.’ As the flash lit up, he slowly counted to ten in his head. After the ten frames of my first roll were finished, he went back inside, put on his pajamas and asked for a cup of tea so he could sit in front of his television in peace. Naturally, I had wanted to shoot ten rolls of film not just ten frames."



Jacob Shooting at Ballerinas, Moscow 2009: "Originally, I had planned to shoot Jacob’s sister, but at 13 she was already too mature for this project. When I came to Jacob’s room, he was sitting on the bed. There was a collection of weapons, mostly Kalashnikovs, real ones, next to him. He picked up an old machine pistol that had been used during the Second World War and pretended to shoot at the ballerinas twirling on the TV screen. His grandmother had come into the room earlier and put on a cultural channel perhaps to balance the guns."



Vova Standing in His Grandfather’s Theatre, Moscow 2010: "The first time I asked Vova what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said he wanted to be an archaeologist. A week later he had changed his mind and said that he wanted to be Spider-Man. Finally, we photographed him on stage at the Theatre Operetta that belongs to his grandfather."


http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-68958.html

[Drale]

1. I like the smokestacks in the background

in the first picture, really captures what the rich are all about.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Jacob's room looks more like that of a 90 year old heiress.

[jaysunb]

3. I wonder does he have any of those little

giraffes ? :rofl:

[Serve The Servants]

9. Heh heh

"Opulence. I has it"

[ProdigalJunkMail]

4. not a smile on one of them...

I recall Russian children smiling broadly...this looks very odd.

sP

[ClarkUSA]

5. They are aping their KGB plutocratic Putin-ass kissing elders.

[progressoid]

6. I think that's a product of the photgrapher.

[davepc]

7. It's the classic aristorcrat scowl

Just look at any painting of any European king.

[leveymg]

8. They have no more chance of survival than the Romanovs.

And the children of Czar Nicholas II were far more attractive.