The Russian website EnglishRussia.com always has fantastic photographs. Sometimes they’re intentionally funny (sometimes unintentionally funny, especially when the poster’s English isn’t so good), sometimes they are simply fascinating glimpses into the daily life of a country that most Westerners have absolutely zero exposure to. The other day this post had a whole series of photographs taken at the Moscow Zoo in the 1920s and 1930s.

I have it on good authority that the camel in this picture was later framed by the KGB as a counter-revolutionary and Stalin himself signed the orders to ship him to Siberia.