Young Roma (Gypsy) boy selling Pepsi, soft drink, on a busy Moscow, RU, street, near the Rizhsky Market, in the evening. 1992.

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Young Roma (Gypsy) boy selling Pepsi, soft drink, on Prospect Mira, large Moscow Street, during the evening. A 1990’s government estimate put the number of Roma in Russia at around 100,000, mostly descended from European immigrants to Russia in the eighteenth century. The Roma were persecuted during the Tsarist era, during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution they worked with both the Red and White armies. After the rise of Joseph Stalin, the Roma were labeled as an “Unstable Culture” and were forced to take normal jobs or sent to Siberia where many were shot.

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Size: 5100px × 3454px
Location: Prospect Mira, Rizhsky Market, Moscow, Russia
Photo credit: © Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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