17 historical photos that will stop your heart and bring tears to your eyes (18 photos)
History loves to play hide-and-seek. It leaves dry dates in textbooks, but buries the most interesting in dusty archives. 
What did the King of Pop look like before the world went crazy for him? Where was the American dream born if its main symbol was assembled by the French? And what do protection from the blinding Arctic snow and Hollywood chic have in common? These aren't just old photos. These are moments when the past suddenly becomes closer, more human, and more amazing than you could imagine.
1. The only known authentic photograph of the Titanic's swimming pool from 1912 
2. Michael Jackson in 1978, before plastic surgery 
3. The Statue of Liberty, towering over Paris shortly before it was dismantled and sent to New York, 1886 
4. Sophia Loren in front of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow, 1968 
5. Filming of the children's film magazine "Yeralash" near Schools No. 294 and No. 301 in Sviblovo, Moscow, 1977 year 
6. The gold leaf from the crown used at Napoleon's coronation, the only one surviving in the world, 1804 
7. The Lykov family, who fled to Taiga 
8. Claude Monet in his studio at Giverny, circa 1890 
9. Jicarilla Indian Chief in Ceremonial Dress, North America, 1904 year 
10. Soviet world swimming champion Shavarsh Karapetyan, who saved the lives of 20 people in 1976 after seeing a trolleybus fall into a reservoir, photo from the 1980s 
11. Photograph of a female train conductor in London in 1916 year 
12. A 1925 photo that may depict the last wild Barbary lion before its extinction. 
13. The Mona Lisa is removed from its hiding place during World War II, 1945. year 
14. This is one of the last known photographs of ethnographer and anthropologist Michael Rockefeller (1961), in which he is depicted with members of a New Guinea tribe known for cannibalism. 
Michael disappeared without a trace during his expedition to New Guinea in 1961, and his body was never found.
15. Snow goggles; The first sunglasses were used 2,000 years ago by Inuit hunters. 
16. Leg fat removal machine, 1936 
17. Yuri Gagarin with his wife Valentina, Sochi, 1961 year 
