Russia Collection (page 23)

German cartoon, three allies in the stocks, WW1
First World War cartoon, showing the German view of the allies France, Britain and Russia, seen here in the stocks, with lists of the territory claimed by the Central Powers. Date: December 1917

Anti-German cartoon, Made in Germany, WW1
Made in Germany, an anti-German First World War cartoon, showing a long-legged Kaiser Wilhelm II running from France to Germany with a flask of wine

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

Russian cavalry uniforms, WW1
Russian cavalry uniforms during the First World War. From left to right: border guard officer, trooper, cavalry officer, hussar in Grodno lifeguard regiment in summer field uniform

Family tree of Peter the Great and Catherine I, with circular portraits of their early 20th century descendants, including Nicholas II, who is described as having abdicated

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto, oil on canvas (1891) by Ilya Repin

Chechen Resitance fighter Abrek Zelimkhan killed
On 10th October 1905 Russian police shot into a crowd during a strike at an industrial plant in Grozny, Chechnya, killing 17 people

Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna - wife of Tsar Alexander III
Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark, wife of Tsar Alexander III and sister of Queen Alexandra of Great Britain

Buryat Archer competing at a Traditional Games in 1928. The Buryats or Buriyads - the largest indigenous (aboriginal) group in Siberia, mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic

Russian Serf / Peasant - A Muzhik
Muzhik or mujik - a Russian peasant, usually from pre-1917 Imperial Russia. The term confers a certain degree of poverty, as most muzhiks were serfs before the 1861 agricultural reforms

Fortune Telling on Christmastide
Two Russian girls Fortune Telling on Christmastide. Date: 1888

Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia(1657-1704). Regent of Russian Tsardom (1682-1689). Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles

German holding up the other Central Powers
Russian caricature from WWI era showing Germany struggling to support the failing efforts of their allies, the other Central Powers, The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (?). Date: circa 1917

Russian machine gunners on eastern front, WW1
Russian machine gunners in action with a Maxim gun on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1917

Flags of the Allied countries during WWI circa 1916

Coco Chanel and Grand Duchess Marie of Russia
An impression of royal Russian exile, Grand Duchess Marie being given a tour of Mademoiselle Chanels salon in Paris in the early 1920s

Major A E Steel, British army officer, WW1
Major (Acting Lieutenant Colonel) Edward Anthony Steel, DSO (1880-1919), British army officer with the RHA (Royal Horse Artillery) and RFA (Royal Field Artillery)

General Gunther von Kirchbach reviewing troops, Kiev
Lieutenant General Gunther Emanuel Graf von Kirchbach (1850-1925) reviewing Ukrainian troops at Kiev towards the end of the First World War

Primula Juliae (Juliana Primrose), a flowering plant of the Primulaceae family, named after the person who discovered it in April 1900 in the Caucasus Mountains of south west Russia

Totem poles, Khanty Mansiysk museum, Russia
A display of carved totem poles of the Mansi tribe at the open air Okrug Ethnographic Museum (Torum Maa) in Khanty Mansiysk, Western Siberia, Russia

Lenin monument in Zaporozhye, Ukraine
View of the statue of the Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) on a monument in Zaporozhye (or Zaporizhia), in south central Ukraine

Balkan Wars 1912
Serbia - The Russian Consol Emiliyanov with his bodyguard at Detchani, 10 miles south of Pech (Pec) during the Balkan War between Russian and the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1912

Princess Olga Paley and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich
Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (1865 - 1929), the second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860 - 1918) (pictured - left)

Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia and Queen Alexand
Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, wife of King Edward VII (1844-1925), with her sister, the Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847-1928)

Ration Card
Ration card for one months provision of bread or flour

Ufos / Dodin / Krasnoyarsk
At Krasnoyarsk Krai, East Russia, writer/lecturer Veniamin Dodin two nights running sees a dirigible-like object over a secret research area, which separates

Poster;russia & Ukraine
the Rallying-Cry of the Ukrainian and Russian : the White Poles Will Never Lord it over the Workers !

Rail on Ice 1904
Railway tracks are laid over ice-covered Lake Baikal, and short trains cross carrying troops to the battlefront of the war with Japan

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