Leningrad Collection

Poster advertising a Dance Festival in the USSR
Poster advertising a Dance Festival in Moscow and Leningrad, USSR, 10 to 20 June 1936

Leningrad Symphony
Dimitri Shostakovich and Yevgeny Mravinsky with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. Together they would premier eight of the composers fifeteen symphonies

St Petersburg / Palace
St Petersburg: the Winter Palace

Grand Hotel d Europe - Saint Petersburg, Russia
View of the Grand Hotel d Europe on the corner of Rue Michel, St Petersburg, Russia. Date: 1903

Nevsky Prospekt 1917
Government troops open fire on demonstrators in Nevsky Prospekt, Petrograd

Leningrad Library
Reading in the library despite constant bombing - during the siege, bombs landed about every 3 minutes. The sign reads Please keep quiet

Leningrad Blood Donor
A blood donor during the siege

Leningrad Cabbages
Picking cabbages from the vegetable patches in front of St Isaacs Cathedral

Tanks in Leningrad St
Tanks advance to battle positions along a city street

St Petersburg / Church 20C
St Petersburg: Church of the Resurrection

Peter & Paul Fortress
A view of the town and habour of St Peter and St Paul, in Kamtschatka. Probably the Peter & Paul Fortress in the Neva delta which was used as a political prison

GERMAN MACHINE GUNNERS
German machine gunners in a trench outside Leningrad. Its not too bad on a fine summers day, but when winter comes the pleasures of invasion will begin to pall

St Petersburg: St Isaac Cathedral Date: circa 1910

Lenin giving speech from balcony, St Petersburg, Russia
Lenin giving a speech from the balcony of the Kshesinskaya Palace, St Petersburg, Russia, in the year of the Russian Revolution. Date: 4 July 1917

Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg, Russia - Avenue 25 October
Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1918, the new Bolshevik government changed the name of the street to " Avenue of 25 October" (as used, interestingly, on this card)

Leningrad Bombarded
German artillery bombarding Leningrad (now St Petersburg) Date: 1942

Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russia
View of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russia, from across the Alexanderplatz. Designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli in baroque style, it was the winter residence of the Russian tsars from 1732 to 1917

Gostiny Dvor (left) St Petersburgs largest department store
A view of Gostiny Dvor (left), St Petersburgs largest department store, in Nevski Prospekt, with pedestrians and traffic outside

Vyborg (Wiborg) Castle, built in 1293. Vyborg Castle was one of the three major castles of Finland. Date: 1899

St Petersburg - the Neva
Prospect of the Neva, with steamboats moored at the quayside. Date: circa 1890

St Petersburg / Sledging
St Petersburg: people sledging during Easter Week, near the statue of Peter the Great Date: 1847

St Petersburg / Nevski
St Petersburg: Nevski Prospekt Date: circa 1915

St Petersburg / Neva River
St Petersburg: the Neva Date: circa 1900

St Petersburg / Peterhof
St Petersburg: Peterhof royal palace with a view of the Tsars church Date: 1916

German Guns, Leningrad
A German rail-mounted gun targets Leningrad : shells land on the city on an average of one every 3 minutes, day after day, week after week Date: 1942

Germans Use Trolleys
The Germans use trolleys which travel along rails in their advance on Leningrad. Date: September 1941

Finns Destroy Railway
Finland :The Finns destroy the Leningrad-Murmansk railway. The soldiers wear white uniforms so as to be less conspicuous in the snowy landscape Date: January 1940

St Petersburg / Waterfront
The waterfront : quay of Vasili Ostrov (Island). Date: 1910

St Petersburg / Hermitage
The Hermitage theatre Date: 1830s

People in Peterhof Gardens, St Petersburg, Russia
People in the Peterhof Palace Gardens, St Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia, during the Soviet era, July 1959. Date: 1959

Russian Soldiers demonstrate in Petrograd
Russian soldiers march through the streets of Petrograd (St Petersburg) proclaiming, Death or Victory and carrying a banner, the message of which is War to the end Date: May 1917

Russian Royalty - their children at Krasnoye Selo
Three of Russias last monarch, Tsar Nicholas II, and his wife Alexandra Feodorovnas children playing in the garden of the Tsars residence in the town of Krasnoye Selo near Leningrad (now St)

Kuznechny Market - Leningrad
The exterior of the Kuznechny Market in Leningrad, Russia (now St. Petersburg) during its construction. Date: 1925

A Leningrad Bakery - 1925
An early 20th century Leningrad Bakery, its shelves heavily laden with an intriguing assortment of breads including the usual the downright unusual. Date: 1925

Tsar Nicholas II Walking With Large Entourage
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia walking through the countryside at Krasnoe Selo among a large entourage that includes his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, one of his daughters

Tsar Nicholas II Playing Tennis
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia enjoying a game of Tennis in Kvasnoe Selonear Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Date: circa 1900

Russian Royalty - Tsar Nicholas II with Family
The last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II with family on the doorstep of his residence in the town of Krasnoye Selo near Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Date: circa 1901

St Petersburg - Tsarskoe
The Colonnade at TSARSKOE SELO palace, outside St Petersburg, erected by the empress Catherine II ( the Great ). Date: circa 1780

St Petersburg Square
The Alexander monument dominates this vast square, where massive government offices confront the Winter Palace. Date: circa 1860

St Petersburg / Troitskoi
general view from the Troitskoi Bridge

Russia Petersburg
Around the time of the 1905 insurrection

St Petersburg
Motor cars pass horse traffic on the fashionable Nevski Prospekt

St Petersburg in Winter
The city in winter : a horse- drawn sleigh beside the frozen Neva : behind is the Nicolai Bridge

St Petersburg C1905
Birds eye view of the Nevski Prospekt, the citys main thoroughfare

After Bombardment
Nevsky prospect after the bombardment of Leningrad

Civilian Defence
A member of the civilian defence unit stands outside the Izhorsky factory, Leningrad

St Petersburg / Nevsky
The Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrad

Leningrad Dept. Store
Customers examine goods over the counter in the military goods section of a Leningrad department store

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