Galitsin Works A-Z (1999-2026)

[Sandy Meyers]

Par Ator et Toutatis!!!

Taquineries
[Teasing]

[Sandy Meyers]

Par Ator et Toutatis!!!

Tendre amante
[Tender lover]

[Sandy Meyers]

Par Ator et Toutatis!!!

Solution d'équilibre physique et mental
[Solution for physical and mental balance]

[Arrowroot]

2006-09-14 Galitsin News - Alla

Introducing Alla, the very last model that Galitsin commenced publishing on Galitsin News.

[Arrowroot]

2006-09-15 Galitsin News - Queen - Alla

[Arrowroot]

2006-09-17 Galitsin News - Carpet Plane - Alla

Lastly for Alla.

[Arrowroot]

And that, I believe, brings an end to posting Galitsin's published work by myself. I know Sandy is looking to post some more social media stuff and do a lot of tidying up of the thread, while I'll be re-upping my earlier posts to IMX.

Thank you everybody for being part of this journey.

[dark_angel]

A huge thanks Arrowroot & Sandy for an incredible work and share wiliness.
As an amateur photographer myself always was marveled by the vast variety of backgrounds , furniture and props showed at the master works.
Always wonder how big was his house/studio to hold all that.
May be Sandy could tell us some details about that.

Thanks again for this vast work.

Angelo Nero

[Sandy Meyers]

A huge thanks Arrowroot & Sandy for an incredible work and share wiliness.
As an amateur photographer myself always was marveled by the vast variety of backgrounds , furniture and props showed at the master works.
Always wonder how big was his house/studio to hold all that.
May be Sandy could tell us some details about that.

Thanks again for this vast work.

Angelo Nero

Merci Angelo!!

You might be surprised to learn that the Master originally kept all the models' clothes and accessories in four suitcases:

Quite a few girls complained about how wrinkled the clothes were —the Master didn't even bother ironing them— but he would say that no man would notice that:

GG used multiple settings for his work between 1996 and 2021, both indoors and outdoors, in Russia and other countries, so let's review them:

a) At Volgograd:

1. His apartment at Lenin Avenue:

2. The "old" studio on the "Path of Heroes" [Аллея Героев #3] at Downtown Volgograd (occupied until 1991 by the famous russian poetess Margarita Konstantinovna Agashina and from 1992 to 2003 by the Major of the City of Volgograd Yury Chéjov [Юрий Чехов], just do "the math" )

This is the place where the Master used all those different wall colors

ATOR made a detailed map of its distribution:

"coté cour"= "the courtyard side"

"coté rue" = "the street side"

"le studio de Galitsin à Volgograd" = "Galitsin's studio in Volgograd"

"Photos of Julia painting were taken in the studio shortly after its purchase. We see here the wallpaper of the poetess.These two photos were taken in the room 1"

About 18 years ago ATOR also made a detailed study of the dates and the models who used each background:

https://viper.cx/threads/1111573-Gal...post14004593

3. The "new" studio Galitsin was finishing outfitting when he was arrested at Battalion street, in the summit of a tower close to the new bridge of Volgograd:

b) His last studio at Novaya Rogachevka (Voronezh region) about 30 milles from Volgograd:

[Sandy Meyers]

In addition to his own studios, the Master photographed some of his models in the studios of friends such as Yuri Deviatkin and Alexander Shakhabalov, and they did the same at Galitsin's studios:

Александр Шахабалов в студии за работой. Съёмки снимаем.
Alexander Shakhabalov at work in the studio. We are filming.

The rarest photo. How it got on the Internet is a mystery. Sasha Shakhabalov in his cramped Moscow studio shoots with Pentax and a soft lens, slapping vodka. That is how I remember him.
Редчайшая фотка. Как она попала в интернет загадка. Саша Шахабалов в своей тесной московской студии снимает Пентаксом и софт объективом, хлопнув водочки. Таким я его помню.

https://viper.cx/threads/1111573-Gal...post36706884

Those were golden times for our Master:

Here we have Irina at Shakhabalov's place shot by Shakhabalov

and by GG:

And here Estella aka Alexandra is at Yuri Deviatkin's studio. Look at this picture, for example, by GG:

and this other by Deviatkin:

both shot the same day at the same session at Deviatkin's studio:

Katrina Govorkoff, Deviatkin's girlfriend, also modeled for her boyfriend using the Master's studio:

And the same happened with other photographers such as Alexander (Sasha) Fradis and Sergey Babenko.

Irina by Babenko

[Sandy Meyers]

In addition to formal, fully equipped studios, the Master staged many of his sets in abandoned

or rarely visited locations like a small spot near the village of Kachalinskaya (Качалинская, 49°06'22.02" 44°01'53.29").

But above all the great river station, the small river station and the old village little house at Crete:

I. From Atornillor (ATOR):

"This is the huge River Station in which GG took pictures of Natia, Liza and Alice.

This relic of past was since the object of a probably criminal fire: there remains nothing more apart from the barge in concrete on which it was based."

1. Picture with the location of the old River Station (BCD):



2. Present aerial view of the remains of the old River Station:



3. The old River Station of Silver Lake (personnal work):"



ATORnillor has done a lot of efforts in Volgograd to preserve some of the locations used by the Master to produce his work. Nine years ago he wrote: "I am known, with another name, by dozens of thousand people in the world and more particularly in Volgograd... I was the first inspirator for the cultural protection of the old Great River Station of the Silver Lake which regrettably burned since. For proof [you can see] a part of the internal rules of this monumental and very beautiful station in the attached photo."

Natia at the Old Great River Station - 2th floor - East side

II. The small river station:

III.The old village little house at Crete:

[dark_angel]

Wow, just Wow.

You are an open book.

Many thanks.

[Sandy Meyers]

In addition to those studies, the Master conducted sessions in the rooms, corridors, interiors, and exteriors of various hotels:

I. The Legendary Hotel Sovietsky [отеля Советский](then known as the Historical Hotel Sovietsky) in Moscow:

https://www.sovietsky.ru/en/

Several films and sets were shot there:

2. The Cosmos Hotel at Moscow:

https://www.hotelcosmos.ru/eng/rooms/gran...unge-access/

3. The Hotel Villa Nina at Lazarevskoe

We can be sure about these data because a GREAT detective work done by ATOR on 2009 (http://www.forumophilia.com/topic47411-570.html, last post):

1. Briefly, first he noted that this curious structure



Corresponds to this one at Lazarevskoe:



(View shot from hotel '' Villa Nina ' with the curious house in it)

And that this small house of nested roofs



Corresponds to this one:



(The small house of nested roofs shot from hotel “Villa Nina” at Lazarevskoe)

From these information ATOR was capable of locate the place from where GN pictures were shot: the Hotel where Olesia, Katerina, Valentina & GG rest -but surely not to much! - marked with the number 4 (UNK1):



So GG's & girls Hotel at Lazarevskoe was this one:

a) At the right:



b) Front:



c) Back (arrow):



d)Hotel's restaurant:




With all this information, it was easy for ATOR to determine the exact location of the different shot places:

43°52'10 N 39°22'52.50 E



IV. And several others dark_angel !!!

[Sandy Meyers]

The Krai of Krasnodar [Краснодарский край] -located on the eastern shore of the Black Sea- has 179 beaches; Master Galitsin chose a couple of them -located at the Lazarevskoye District [Лазаревский район]- to conduct many of their modeling sessions: one at Volkonka (Lat 43,869349° Long 39,381094°) and the other at Soloniki (Lat 43,889936° Long 39,355755°):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZfhfLb_PRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVJ0TC1aVNo

From ATORnillor: "The wall of the beach is the retaining wall of the railway which goes from Sotchi to Tsuape. It measures 80 kilometers:

By places, this wall is cut to allow streams and rivers to pass. Naturally in these places there are bridges as the passage of the railway. Examples are numerous in the production of GG, as well in photos as in videos. This wall also supports a big pipe which brings from Soloniki to Lazarevskoe the mineral water of a source to strong debit.

In Lazarevskoe there is a plant of bottling. In some sets we see this conduit very well and in video with Karerina "New Victim" we understand that the rope is wrapped around the conduit. We see its shadow very well down."

[KingWillem]

A wonderful body of work—complete and beautifully put together. Full credit to Sandy. But I’m fairly certain that Sandy has even more inside information from those turbulent years. Perhaps she’d be willing to share that with us, too... (please).