Petersburg Collection (page 10)

Hotel at St Petersburg
The waiting room at the hotel des Malles-Postes, Saint Petersburg

Strike Leaders Arrested
Arrest of strike leaders at Saint Petersburg

Social / Russia / Ball 1858
Ball given by Grande Duchesse Marie Nicolaevna St Petersburg February 1858

Crossing Troitsky Bridge
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - Petrograd : May Day supporters cross Troitsky (Trinity) Bridge to reach the Winter Palace

Russia / 1907 / St Searches
In St Petersburg, passers-by are searched for bombs and other weapons

Russian Steam Tram
A steam tram in the streets of St Petersburg

St Petersburg Founded
The city of St Petersburg is founded by Peter the Great

Liberal Demo Crushed 04
Liberal demonstrators are savagely suppressed at St Petersburg, Russia by government troops

St Petersburg Castle
St Petersburg: Oranienbaum Castle, built by Peter the Great in 1714

St Petersburg C1850
St Petersburg: aerial view

St Petersburg 1794
St Petersburg: general view, with the Isaac Bridge crossing the river

St Petersburg 1706
St Petersburg: general view

St Petersburg / Fortress
St Petersburg: fortress of St Peter & St Paul

St Petersburg / Monument
St Petersburg: monument to Peter the Great

St Petersburg / Council
St Petersburg: Hall of the Imperial Council

St Petersburg / Anitchkov
St Petersburg: Anitchkov Palace

Berlioz Postcard 1867
HECTOR BERLIOZ the French composer during his visit to St Petersburg in 1867

St Petersburg Ice Slide
A giant ice slide is enjoyed by the cityfolk of St Petersburg, Russia

Social / Tsar at Ball 1893
Tsar Alexander III and the Tsarina watch the Quadrille d Honneur - HIS honour - at a ball at the French Embassy, St Petersburg

Popovs Radio Invented
Alexander Popov demonstrates his radio receiving set to the Russian Physico-Chemistry Society in St Petersburg : he is claimed in USSR as the true inventor of radio

St Petersburg Postcard
A busy street scene with horses and carts and pedestrians in Nevski Prospect, St Petersburg

Ussr Tank Factory
Winching a tank with an overhead crane at a factory, probably the Kirovsky Tractor Factory in St. Petersburg, producing tanks from 1932, through WW2 and afterwards

Royals on Bentwood
Lunching after a review at Krassnoje Selo, St Petersburg, the king of Sweden and the duke and duchess of Edinburgh sit on bentwood chairs by Thonet of Vienna

Giuditta Pasta / Singer
GIUDITTA PASTA Italian opera singer. She sang in Venice, London, Paris and St Petersburg

Haymarket, St Petersburg
The Hay market, St Petersburg - where many things are on sale, except hay : the lady lower right may have passed out with the excitement, but is more probably drunk

St Petersburg -The Point
The Point, on the islands in the Neva delta, is a favourite place for the citizens to take the air and meet their friends

St Petersburg - Winter P
The Winter Palace was begun by Peter the Great and completed by the Empress Elisabeth just in time for this picture to be made

St Petersburg Opera
The view from the Imperial Box at the St Petersburg Opera House during a gala performance

Statue of Alexander III
Tsar Nicholas II and the Imperial family at the inauguration of the statue of his father Alexander III, by Prince Paolo Trubetskoy, in St Petersburg

Steam Horse, 1828
STEAM HORSE on whose back you may ride to Saint Petersburg in one hour

Winter Palace Event
How the Tsar deals with complaints - demonstrating workers gunned down by the Army outside the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg

Tsar Promises Reform
In his October Manifesto Tsar Nicholas promises wider powers for the Duma, broader franchise, civil liberties - in the streets of Saint Petersburg, crowds discuss

1905 RISING
Government troops fire on workers demonstration outside the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, led by Father Gapon

Mammoths Found Frozen
Two mammoths are found frozen in the Jamalm Peninsula, 2400 kilometres north of Saint Petersburg

Daniel Bernouilli
DANIEL BERNOUILLI Swiss Professor of mathematics at St Petersburg and of anatomy, botany and physics and then of philosophy at the University of Basel

Events / Sweden / Gustav III
Gustav III meets Catherine, Empress of Russia, at St Petersburg

Celebrating Serfdom End
ABOLITION OF SERFDOM : rejoicings at Saint Petersburg

Pavlovs laboratory in Leningrad, Russia
Pavlovs laboratory in Leningrad (St Petersburg), known as the tower of silence

Pavlovs dogs trapped in a flood
When Pavlovs dogs are trapped in a flood of the River Neva at Leningrad (St Petersburg), their conditioned reflexes are altered, leading him to a crucial psychological breakthrough

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