Russia Collection (page 5)

Russia, Volgograd - Railway station
Russia, Volgograd (Zaryzin, Stalingrad). The Railway station. Date: 2010

General Rawlinson and General Ironside, Archangel
General Sir Henry Rawlinson (1864-1925) (left) and Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside (1880-1959) (right), British army officers, seen here with others on the quay at Archangel (Arkhangelsk)

Bolshoi Theatre Moscow
The Grand Imperial Theatre The Bolshoi Date: 1908?

Russian Bear Seeks Peace
CARTOON The Russian Bear in search of peace (during the provisional government after the April revolution) Date: April 1917

Moscow - Church of St Saviour. On December 5, 1931, the iconic Othodox Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was dynamited and reduced to rubble (during the rule of Josef Stalin)

Renovated church at Suzdal, Russia
View of the old belfry and towers of a small renovated church in Suzdal, Russia

Vladimir Dmitrievich Zamyatin - poet
Vladimir Dmitrievich Zamyatin, Russian Soviet poet (1915-1952). The winner of the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1952 - posthumously)

Mikhail Ivanovich Tereschenko, Russian politician and financier, seen here in August 1917. In this year he was appointed Finance Minister of the Russian Provisional Government, then Foreign Minister

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

Red Army recruitment poster, showing a Soviet sailor and soldiers fighting: Forward to the Don!

Brest-Litovsk buildings burn
Buildings on fire in the city of Brest-Litovsk. The city was captured by German forces in December 1915, and in March 1918 was the scene of the signing of a treaty which ended the war between Russia

Cartoon impression of the Russo-Japanese War 1 of 5
Card 1 of 5 - Preliminaries. A cartoon interpretation of the Russo-Japanese war, acted out by the principal ruling individuals from the International Community

Grand Princess Maria Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh
Grand Princess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, later Duchess of Edinburgh (1853-1920), only daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia

Russias future Czar and Czarina
Photograph of Grand Duke Nicholas, Czarevitch of Russia (later Czar or Tsar Nicholas II) and Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt taken in 1894

British Soldiers on a ship bound for Russia; First World War
Photograph showing a group of British soldiers leaning over the rail on the deck of a transport ship bound for Russia, 1916

War with Russia - 5
The long-drawn out battle of the Vistula ends in a crushing defeat of the Red Army by the Poles, seen here posing later in the year with guns taken from the bolsheviks

Nicholas II with his staff
Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, shown with his staff on the Eastern front. Nicholas dismissed Grand Duke Nicholas in 1915

1921 / Kamenev Speaks
Russian Communist leader Lev Kamenev speaks in Moscow

May Day Parade in Moscow
A group of children taking part in the May Day Parade in Moscow 1929

Irkutsk Demonstration
The February Revolution spreads from Petrograd across the country - this street demonstration is at Irkutsk in Siberia

Izvestia Distributed
Copies of the Moscow newspaper Izvestia (it means messages or reports) are distributed to soldiers of the Red Army. Fortunately, many of them can read

Womens Battalion Death
Recruits in the Womens Shock Battalion of Death pose for a propaganda picture while learning to use their guns

Service for Servicemen
Despite the revolution, Russians are not yet atheists : in Moscows Red Square a church service is held for those still fighting on the German front

Lenin and Workers
Lenin addresses workers at the Putilov factory, Petrograd, who provide solid support for his coup

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

German Tanks in Russia
A German tank, accompanied by infantry, advances across the Russian steppes

Mayakovsky (3 / 4)
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY - Russian poet and supporter of the Communist party in Russia (this photograph is dated 1927)

Lenin at Conference
VLADIMIR LENIN Russian statesman, pouring over paperwork at the All Russian Congress at the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

Kerensky & Cabinet
Alexander Kerensky and his military cabinet. From left to right: General Baranovsky; Colonel Yakubovich; Savinkov; Kerensky; and Prince Tumanov

Communist Group 1984
A smartly-dressed group of boys and girls, the Red Pioneers, a communist youth organisation, Irktusk, USSR

Russia - Yakutsk
Town in eastern Russia, on the Lena river. Today it has a population of 200000 and a university. The Stolbi rocks are as impressive as ever

Native of Kamchatka
A native of Kamchatka, in north-eastern Russia : he holds a fish, of which his dogs are very well aware

Trans=Siberian Railway
Mounted soldiers at a crossing watch a train of the Trans- Siberian Railway steams through the snow

Russian Soldier & Girl
A reunion in Moscow - a soldier kisses a happy girl

Russian Soldiers Return
Red Army troops return home to Moscow where they receive a warm welcome

Moscow Parade
To boost morale, a military parade is staged in Red Square, Moscow, even though at the time the Germans are on the outskirts of the city

Moscow Celebrates
Victory celebrations in Moscow

Victory Parade Moscow
A victory parade in Red Square, near the Kremlin, Moscow

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

Thanksgiving Service
Thanksgiving service given by Orthodox Archbishop Nikolai after the Battle of Moscow has ended with a German withdrawal

Soldier at Lenins Tomb
A Russian sentry on guard duty near Lenins tomb in the snow- covered Red Square, Moscow

Hyde Park Review 1814
BRITISH and others: Allied sovereigns attending a review in Hyde Park: Duke of Wellington, King of Prussia, Prince Regent (George IV) and Emperor of Russia

Food Queue / Tverskaya St
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - Queueing for food, Tverskaya Street, Moscow

Medals / Gold Donated 1917
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - Petrograd : Soldiers donate medals and gold to the cause of the Revolution

Easter egg customs in a Russian village
In a Russian village, friends and neighbours exchange eggs and kisses at Easter

Communism in Russia 1934
Standing by to hoist the flag when Europe turns communist may mean a long wait, but at least its a steady job!

Dance / Caucasus & Georgia
The national dance of Caucasus & Georgia known in Caucasus as the Lesginnka and in Georgia as the Lekoury

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