The book of the project # Romanovs100, dedicated to the centenary of the execution of the royal family, combined photographs of the beginning of the XX century with augmented reality technologies. Using the Romanovs100 mobile application, the reader can access more than 60 AR-elements of the book, including interactive photo galleries, colorized photographs and VR-animation.
Book # Romanovs100 won the Shorty Social Good Awards category for Best Image Use. The RT AR photo album also won the Epica Awards silver in the Virtual / Augmented Reality category.
In addition, the # Romanovs100 project received gold and silver awards from the MIXX Russia Awards 2019. The # Romanovs100 project, launched in collaboration with the State Archive of Russia, was implemented on four social media platforms - YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. As part of the project, several thousand photographs from the Romanovs archive were published. Today it is the most complete photo collection of the royal family.
Previously, the authors of # Romanovs100 created a historic Twitter reconstruction of the 1917 revolution in Russia - project # 1917LIVE. Dozens of accounts in real time published messages on behalf of historical characters - from Nicholas II and Lenin to workers and soldiers. University professors from the USA and Great Britain, as well as world-famous Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, took part in the project # 1917LIVE.
The RT # Romanovs100 and # 1917LIVE projects have won over 50 awards, including The Drum Awards, Clio Entertainment, Promax Awards, Shorty Awards, Webby Awards, Red Dot, ADC, Epica Awards and New York Festivals. In addition, RT projects four times reached the final of one of the most prestigious and reputable competitions in the field of advertising and marketing - Cannes Lions.