Photo-postcard by E. Chaldea "Red Navy men are firing at the fascists"

An original and very rare photo postcard in excellent condition. The only disadvantage is that the upper corner is lost. Photo by E. Chaldea. The circulation is 10000 pcs. It's not filled in, it didn't go through the mail. Guarantee of authenticity.

Yevgeny Ananyevich Khaldei (March 23, 1916, Yuzovka, Yekaterinoslav province — October 6, 1997, Moscow) was a Soviet photographer and military photojournalist.

Yevgeny Khaldei was born on March 23, 1916 in the town of Yuzovka, Bakhmutsky 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 the 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 filmed Dneprostroy, reports about Alexei Stakhanov. He represented the editorial board of TASS in the Navy during the Great Patriotic War. He spent all 1418 days of the war with the 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, 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. He participated 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, the publishing house Editions Du Chene — Hachette Livre (France) published the book by Marc Grosset "The Chaldee. Photojournalist of the Soviet Union" (Khaldei. Un Photoreporter en Union Soviétique).

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