Petersburg Collection (page 4)

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

Black Soldiers Recruited
Enrolment of black recruits for General Grants army before Petersburg. Date: 1864

Catherine / St Petersburg
Catherine the Great arrives triumphantly at the Kazan Cathedral, St Petersburg, following her successful coup. Date: 1762

Social / Court Ball 1889
A Court Ball at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg Date: 1889

St Petersburg / Hermitage
The Hermitage theatre Date: 1830s

Russian Warehouses
Warehouses and the Exchange, at St Petersburg, Russia Date: circa 1750

Music cover, St Petersburg Quadrille on Russian Airs, by Charles D Albert. circa 1860

Captain Thompsons camera truck, Petrograd, Russia
Captain Thompsons camera truck, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, during the Revolution. This was the safest way to take photographs of street riots and fighting, guarded by a crew of soldiers

Parade with banners during Revolution, Petrograd, Russia
Large parade with banners during the Revolutionary period, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Date: circa 1917

American ambassador during Revolution, Russia
The American ambassador to Russia, David Rowland Francis (left, 1850-1927), in an open carriage, waiting for a funeral procession to pass in a Petrograd (St Petersburg)

Hotel Astoria showing its loyalty, Petrograd, Russia
The Hotel Astoria showing its loyalty to the Revolution with banners, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. The ground floor windows are still boarded up, following the earlier attack on the building

Large gathering during Revolution, Petrograd, Russia
Large public gathering in the street to listen to speeches during the Revolutionary period, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Date: circa 1917

Demonstration during Revolution, Petrograd, Russia
Demonstration in the street during the Revolution, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Date: circa 1917

Soldiers on parade during Revolution, Petrograd, Russia
Soldiers on parade during the Revolution, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Date: circa 1917

Armed soldiers riding in a truck, Petrograd, Russia
Armed soldiers riding in a truck, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, during the Revolution. Date: 1917

Demonstration of revolutionaries, Petrograd, Russia
Demonstration of revolutionaries in Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Date: late 1917

Sister of Mercy in a car, Petrograd, Russia, with soldiers standing alongside, during the Revolution. It is claimed that she is a court lady

City militia with armoured car, Petrograd, Russia
City militia (volunteer police force) with armoured car, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Date: 1917

Police barracks sacked by revolutionaries, Russia
Police barracks and sacked by revolutionaries, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, after a life and death struggle. The police were killed and the prisoners were freed

Police barracks captured by revolutionaries, Russia
Police barracks and prison captured by revolutionaries, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, after a life and death struggle. The police were killed and the prisoners were freed. Date: 1917

Revolutionists cheered by crowds, Petrograd, Russia
Revolutionists marching from the Liteiny (Liteyny) Prospekt, down Nevski (Nevsky) Prospekt, passing the Anichkov Palace, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, to attack a police barracks

Duma messengers protected by guards, Petrograd, Russia
Duma messengers protected by armed guards, Petrograd (St Petersburg), during the Russian Revolution. The cars were used to travel at great speed around the city. Date: 1917

Revolutionists marching, Petrograd, Russia
Revolutionists marching from the Liteiny (Liteyny) Prospekt, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, to attack a police barracks. Date: 1917

Cossacks and crowds during Revolution, Petrograd, Russia
Cossacks on horseback in the Nevski Prospekt, Petrograd (St Petersburg), during the Revolutionary period in Russia, keeping an eye on armed Kronstadt sailors

Revolutionists marching to Duma, Petrograd, Russia
Revolutionists marching to the Duma to swear allegiance, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, March 1917. Date: 1917

Police Barracks damaged, Petrograd, Russia
Police Barracks damaged after being stormed and sacked, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, during the Revolution. Date: 1917

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

Shell Fence, St Petersburg, Florida, USA. It was built by Owen Albright (originally from Lancashire, UK) outside his home as a roadside attraction and curiosity

Sun Motors car wash, St Petersburg, Florida, USA, offering a complete auto wash in three minutes for one dollar 25 cents. Date: circa 1940s

Benoist flying boat and pilot Tony Jannus Sp Petersburg-Tampa early 1914 scheduled service

LENIN, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (1870-1924). Russian theoretician and communist leader politician. Lenin at Razliv. 1934. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. SAINT PETERSBURG. Saint Petersburg. State Russian Museum

Plaque with Scythian Warriors. Gold repousse, 14x19 cm. It is possible that the plaque formed part of the decoration of a horses harness. 4th century BC. Proceeds from Geremes Barrow, Ukraine

Staff Head. Bronze, 17 cm. 4th century BC. Proceeds from Alexandropol Barrow, Ukraine. Scythian Art. Jewelry. RUSSIA. SAINT PETERSBURG. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum. Proc: UKRAINE

Stick handle with figure of a stag 7th BC. Bronze. Proceeds from Kuban, Russia. Scythian Art. Jewelry. RUSSIA. SAINT PETERSBURG. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum. Proc: TURKEY. BLACK SEA COAST

KIPRENSKI, Orest. Portrait of Ekaterina
KIPRENSKI, Orest Adamovich (1782-1932). Portrait of Ekaterina Avdulina. 1822. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. SAINT PETERSBURG. Saint Petersburg. State Russian Museum

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

British Embassy, St Petersburg, Russia
The British Embassy building, St Petersburg, Russia

Electric tram on the River Neva, St Petersburg, Russia
Electric tram on the frozen River Neva, St Petersburg, Russia. Date: early 20th century

Grand Hotel d Europe, St Petersburg, Russia
View inside the dining room of the Grand Hotel d Europe, St Petersburg, Russia

Tiffany Stained Glass
Stained glass window of St Matthew representing Florida by Tiffany at Old Blandford Church, Petersburg, Virginia

Fancy Dress Ball - Winter Palace
An early 20th century fancy dress ball held at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Date: 1910s

Hypnosis - St Petersburg
Hypnosis given as treatment in St Petersburg, Russia in 1905. Date: 1905

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

A Gynaecological Operation in St Petersburg
Early 20th century Gynaecological surgery taking place in front of a vast audience of Surgeons, would-be surgeons and nurses in the Obstetric Institute in St Petersburg, Russia. Date: 1905

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

May Day - Clown Entertains Russian Crowd
As part of the 1921 May-Day celebrations in St. Petersburg a deranged looking, pig-riding clown entertains the pleasantly bemused crowds. Date: 1st May 1921

Repairs to Petrograd Tramways, 1923
Repairs underway on tramlines in central Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1923. Date: 1923

Bar at the Medved Restaurant, St Petersburg
The Belgian entrepreneur E. Hiegels Medved (the Russian word for a bear) Restaurant opened on 1st of October 1878. Its dinning service

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