Petersburg Collection

REMBRANDT, Harmenszoon van Rijn, called (1606-1669). Return of the Prodigal Son. 1668. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum

The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia
The Hermitage, aka The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia circa 2008

ANGELICO, Fra (1387-1455). The Virgin and Child with SS Dominic and Thomas Aquinas. 1424-1430. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Fresco. RUSSIA. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum. Proc: ITALY

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

Peter the Great, Equestrian Statue, St Petersburg
View of the equestrian statue to Peter the Great (1672 - 1725) in St Petersburg, Russia. Known as the Bronze Horseman, it was installed in 1782

Raphael (1483-1520). Madonna Conestabile. 1504. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Tempera. RUSSIA. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum

The Bronze Horseman, statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia. Illustration from Andrew Swintons Travels into Norway, Denmark and Russia, 1792

MAP / RUSSIA / SIBERIA C1760
Siberia and adjacent regions : St Petersburg and Moscow are on the far left, Irkutsk centre low right Date: circa 1760

Girl at a window. Rococo. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum

CATHERINE II the Great (1729-1796). Empress
" CATHERINE II " the Great" (1729-1796). Empress of Russia (1762-1796) and wife of Peter III. Portrait of Catherine II with formal dress. 1770

Pawlowsk, (i. e. Pavlovsk), the Castle, St. Petersburg, Russ
Pawlowsk, (i.e. Pavlovsk), the Castle, St. Petersburg, Russia. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Alexander Palace, home of Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar, and his family. It is situated in the Alexander Park of Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg

Cruiser Aurora
The cruiser Aurora, lying at St Petersburg, whose guns gave the signal for the Bolshevik attack on the Winter Palace

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

Harbour of St Petersburg

Lomonosov Bridge, Saint Petersburg, Russia Date: late 19th century

The Moike Canal, St. Petersburg, Russia, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

Michael Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

Grand Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

The Marie Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II - new plough tested at Peterhof
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II examines a new model of Plough being demonstrated in the grounds of the Peterhof Palace, a series of palaces and gardens located in Petergof, Saint Petersburg

Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarina at a Ball, St. Petersburg
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918) wearing traditional Russian Costume at a Ball held at the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia in 1903

English Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
English Palace, on the West Bank of the English pond, Peterhof, Petrodvortsovy district, St. Petersburg, Russia (now demolished). Date: circa 1909

Russian sleighs outside St. Petersburg, Russia
Traditional Russian sleighs awaiting fares outside a Railway Station, St. Petersburg, Russia. Date: circa 1900s

Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory U. S. S. R. - The observatory was opened in 1839, brainchild of astronomer
Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory U.S.S.R. - The observatory was opened in 1839, brainchild of astronomer, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. Date: 1950s

The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, St. Petersburg
Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory U.S.S.R. - The observatory was opened in 1839, brainchild of astronomer, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. Date: 1950s

HIMS Aurora
Imperial Russian Navy - HIMS Aurora, Pallada-class protected cruiser. A detail showing the forward funnel, foremast and bridge citadel. (This ship has been preserved at St. Petersburg)

RMS Titanic - Nearer My God to Thee postcard with music
RMS Titanic - rare coloured postcard, Nearer My God to Thee, by B.T. Meachan, Petersburg, Virginia. Postally unused

Farewell mass for Women's Battalion, Russia, WW1
Crowds of people at the farewell mass at Kazan Cathedral in Petrograd (St Petersburg), for the Women's Battalion of Death, the day before they left for the front to fight in the First World War

Mass burials in Field of Mars, Petrograd, Russia
Mass burials in the Field of Mars, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, of those who died during the Revolution. Date: late 1917

Cholera in St. Petersburg, Russian, a procession of priests going to the Spassky Church to pray for the cessation of the plague. Date: September 1892

RASPUTIN DEATHPLACE
The Yusopov palace, Saint Petersburg, where RASPUTIN was done to death (with some difficulty) by a group of unpatriotic Russian nobles. Date: 1916

St Isaacs Cathedral, Russian Orthodox church, St Petersburg
Vintage 19th century photograph: St Isaacs Cathedral, Russian Orthodox church, St Petersburg, Russia

Embankment, with ships, quay, St Petersburg, Russia
Vintage 19th century photograph: embankment, with ships, quay, St Petersburg, Russia

The English Embankment Bolshaya Neva River St Petersburg
Vintage 19th century photograph: The English Embankment or English Quay is a street along the left bank of the Bolshaya Neva River in Central Saint Petersburg

Russia, St. Petersburg, The Annunciation Bridge
Vintage 19th century photograph: Russia, St. Petersburg, The Annunciation Bridge - previously Blagoveshchensky most; from 1855 to 1918 Nikolaevsky Bridge

Smolny Convent, St Petersburg, Russia
Vintage 19th century photograph: Smolny Convent or Smolny Convent of the Resurrection, St Petersburg, Russia

Nevsky Prospect St. Petersburg in Russia
Vintage 19th century photograph: Nevsky Prospect is the main street in the federal city of St. Petersburg in Russia

Man and woman of St. Petersburg, Russia. The man has a tray of bottles on his head and the woman carries a basket of eggs

Man and woman of Strasbourg, Alsace, France, 1818. The woman shows her wares on a table in a garden. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being

Historical views of Sweden. Gustav Eriksson addressing the men of Dalarna 13, women farmers ploughing fields with oxen 14, and a public whipping of a cruel boy 15

M George Baklanoff (1881-1938). A baritone, native of St Petersburg. Date: circa 1912

The palace of Tsarskoye Selo (Tsars Village) near St. Petersburg, showing the gates and park. Illustration from Andrew Swintons Travels into Norway, Denmark and Russia, 1792

Skating on the ice in front of the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. At right, two men buy hot drinks from a vendor with a barrel and cups

View of the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World

Nikolaevski Prospekt, Kronstadt, St Petersburg, Russia
Aerial view of Nikolaevski Prospekt, Kronstadt, Kotlin Island, St Petersburg, Russia. Date: circa 1905

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