STC331298 Famine in the Volga Valley, 1921 (sepia photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Groups of peasants starving as a result of the revolution; Volga Valley had previously been very fertile; The Russian famine of 1921, also known as Povolzhye famine, was a severe famine in Bolshevik Russia which began in early spring of 1921 and lasted through 1922. This famine killed an estimated 5 million, primarily affecting the Volga and Ural River regions.); The Stapleton Collection; Russian, out of copyright.