The Soviet leaders on their way down the Volga river, from left to right Andrei GRECHKO, Nikolai PODGORNY, Leonid BREZHNEV and Frol KOZLOV, relaxed and playing a game of dominoes; other passengers watched nearby as the Kremlin top brass were bound for a secrert missile base: 1960
Life behind the walls of the Kremlin has always been more or less secretive. Soviet leaders have their hidden private lives and presented to the world only those faceless and stolid visages of state occasions. Yet the KREMLIN BOYS, the elite of the Communist regime, are capable of being warm and human, as witnessed by former Moscoz news photographer Semyon RASKIN who emigrated to Canada and brought this album of photos with him. As official photographer, Raskin covered the Kremlin from 1956 to 1975 and was thus allowed to photograph the top Soviet officials both at play and at work including the last days of Nikita KHRUSHCHEV.