Mikhail Gravev (Russian, 1913-2003) black and white photo depicting children walking in the kindergarten from the series Soviet Daily Life. The 1930s-1960s. Signed on verso in pen. From The Borodulin’s Collection of Russian Photographs. Mikhail Grachev’s first shots were published in the magazine Our Achievements, which was edited by Maxim Gorky. As a young photographer, he took pictures of classes in a youth club and the daily life of a Pioneer camp. On the recommendation of Vladimir Lenin’s sister Maria Ulyanova, in 1936 Grachev was enlisted in the staff of Izvestia newspaper, where he became a photo correspondent, special editorial correspondent, and, at the same time, head of the laboratory. In 1939 he graduated from the evening technical school that trained photo reporters. During the Great Patriotic War, he was in charge of the Izvestia photo laboratory and worked as a press photographer for the newspaper Evening Moscow.