The book by E. Khaldei "From Murmansk to Berlin" with the author's autograph

The original book is in excellent condition. Preface by K. Simonov, designed by and the layout of M.M. Chernyakhovsky. Murmansk: Murmansk Book Publishing House, 1979. [96] p., ill. Format 28.5×21.4 cm. In a publisher's illustrated cover. Scuffs, creases of corners, tears and loss of fragments of the spine. Illustrated flyleafs. The author's autograph is on the title page. Guarantee of authenticity.

Evgeny Ananyevich Chaldey (March 23, 1916, Yuzovka, Yekaterinoslav province — October 6, 1997, Moscow) was a Soviet photographer and military photojournalist. Evgeny Khaldei was born on March 23, 1916 in the town of Yuzovka, Bakhmut district, Yekaterinoslav province. During the Jewish pogrom on March 13, 1918, Chaldea's mother and grandfather were killed, and he himself was shot in the chest at the age of one year. He studied at Hedera, and started working at a factory at the age of 13. I took my first picture at the age of 13 with a homemade camera. He started working as a photojournalist at the age of 16. Since 1939, he has been a correspondent for the TASS Photo Chronicle. He shot Dneprostroy, reports about Alexei Stakhanov. He represented the editorial staff of TASS in the Navy during the Great Patriotic War. He spent all 1,418 days of the war with a Leica III camera from Murmansk to Berlin. He filmed the Paris meeting of foreign ministers, the defeat of the Japanese in the Far East, the conference of the heads of the Allied powers in Potsdam, the hoisting of the flag over the Reichstag, and the signing of the German surrender act. At the Nuremberg trials, one of the physical evidence was photographs of Chaldea.

He participated in the storming of Novorossiysk, Kerch, the liberation of Sevastopol, the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary. Participant in the filming of the Potsdam Conference, the Paris Conference and the Nuremberg Trials. In 1948, he was dismissed from TASS on charges of insufficient educational level and insufficient political literacy. After Stalin's death, he regained access to newspaper pages. After the war, he created a gallery of images of veterans in peaceful labor. It was only in 1957 that he was able to become a photojournalist for the newspaper Pravda. In 1995, at the International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan (France), Chaldea was awarded the most honorable award in the art world — the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature.

In 1997, the book "Witness to History. Photographs by Evgeny Khaldei" by the American publishing house "Aperture". Also in May 1997, the premiere of the 60-minute film "Evgeny Khaldei — photographer of the Stalin era" took place. In 2004, Editions Du Chene — Hachette Livre (France) published the book Chaldea by Marc Grosse. Photojournalist of the Soviet Union" (Khaldei. Un Photoreporter en Union Soviétique).

In 2014, the same "Watering Can" was sold at a Bonhams auction for 200 thousand dollars.