A sculptural portrait of Czar Ivan the Terrible

Moscow. The Laboratory of Anthropological Reconstruction under the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences was founded in 1950 by the outstanding Soviet anthropologist and archaeologist Mikhail Gerasimov. That is the only national laboratory reconstituting portraits by a person's skull. The unique method developed there allows us to see faces of people who lived hundreds and thousands years ago. The picture shows a sculptural portrait of Russian Czar Ivan IV created in Gerasimov laboratory. Photo by Alexei Antonov/ITAR-TASS

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