Russian Collection

Shostakovich Photo
Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Russian Musician

Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev
Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias (1919-1991) British ballerina with Rudolph Nureyev (1938-1993) Russian ballet dancer in 1962 with Sir Frederick Ashton (1904-1988) British choreographer

Anna Pavlova dancing Swan Lake
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) Russian ballet dancer photographed here in Swan Lake in 1920

Battle Balaclava (Gibb)
The Thin Red Line of the 93rd Highlanders repel the Russian cavalry

Leon Trotsky / Iln 1920
LEON TROTSKY or LEV DAVIDOVICH BRONSTEIN Russian Communist leader in 1920, at the height of his popularity as the Peoples Commissar for War

Felix Dzerzhinsky
FELIX DZERZHINSKY Polish/Russian agitator, banished to Siberia, exiled for part in 1905 rising, returned 1917, head of secret police (Cheka) etc

NUREYEV, Rudolf. Russian dance and choreographer. Portrait of Nureyev taking a bow at the end of his performance

GURDJIEFF (1872-1949)
Georgei Ivanovitch Gurdjieff Russian spiritual leader

Soviet propaganda poster - We want Peace
" We want Peace!" Soviet propaganda poster - featuring a happy, singing Communist family, waving flags. Date: circa 1950s

GURDJIEFF
Georgei Ivanovitch Gurdjieff Russian spiritual leader

Anton Chekhov with Moscow Art Theatre group
Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (1860-1904) at the centre of a group of people from the Moscow Art Theatre -- Constantin Stanislavski on his right, Olga Knipper (Chekhovs wife) to Stanislavskis right

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian statesman
A photograph of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin (1870 - 1924), Russian statesman and Communist leader, circa 1920

Lenin / Anon Photo / Trotsky
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN Russian statesman; addressing the Red Army with Trotski on the steps

Lithuania / Vilnius 20C
Vilnius (Polish " Wilno", Russian " Vilna" or " Vilno", German " Wilna" ), now the commercial capital of Lithuania: a church in the snow

Scriabin / Hull 1914
ALEKSANDR SCRIABIN Aka Skryabin Russian composer

Grigori Rasputin in 1912
GRIGORI RASPUTIN Russian mystic and court favourite in 1912

Soviet Armenia
Tourism poster for Soviet Armenia, with a steam train passing over a viaduct and a motor car driving through the landscape

Map / Europe / Russia Empire
Map of the Russian Empire

Mary, Russian Icon
Mary and Jesus, with attendant angels, as depicted in a Russian icon

Anton Chekhov in 1900
ANTON CHEKHOV Russian writer, author of Three sisters, Seagull, Cherry orchard, Uncle Vanya and more, photographed at Yalta in 1900

Russian Imperial Eagle
The Russian Imperial two- headed eagle surrounded by heraldic devices of the provinces of Imperial Russia

Grigori Rasputin in 1908
GRIGORI RASPUTIN Russian mystic and court favourite in 1908

Sergei Rachmaninov 1920
SERGEI RACHMANINOV Russian composer

Japanese warrior woman with naginata
Japanese warrior woman with a large Naginata. A naginata is a pole weapon that was traditionally used in Japan by members of the samurai class

Tolstoy / 1876 Photo
LEO TOLSTOY Russian novelist in 1876, at age 48

Chekhov with Tolstoy
Russian playwright and writer, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), left, with Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Fyodor Dostoievsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoievsky Russian Writer

Anna Pavlova / Programme
ANNA PAVLOVA Russian ballet dancer

Dmitry Shostakovich
DMITRY DMITRIYEVICH SHOSTAKOVICH Russian Composer Date: 1906 - 1975

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; a portrait in honour of his wedding to Alexandra Feodorovna on the 26th November 1894 Date: 1894

Soviet propaganda poster: a Red Army officer, fearing civil disorder during a strike, asks the citizens to hand in their weapons

DOSTOIEVSKY (1821-1881)
FEODOR DOSTOIEVSKI Russian writer

Sectional view of a Mills grenade, WW1
Drawing reproduced from a German weekly newspaper article which gave particulars of British and Russian hand grenades. Figs. 1, 2, 3 & 4 illustrate the Mills grenade. Date: 1918

Mitchells Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA
Mitchells Corn Palace, The Worlds Only Corn Palace at Mitchell, South Dakota, USA. The card notes that this building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10

Russian - Zascha The Colossal Woman
Zascha - The Colossal Woman from Russia Date: circa 1910s

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

Trotsky at Desk
LEON TROTSKY Russian statesman, at Brest- Litovsk 1918

Anna Pavlova (1881 - 1931), Russian ballet dancer as the Dying Swan in a performance of Swan Lake'. Date: 1912

British and Russian Royal Families at Osborne House, Isle of Wight on 4th August 1909. Pictured are Tsar (Czar) Nicholas and Tsarina (Czarina) Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, later Alexandra Feodorovna

Leo Tolstoy and Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844-1930), Russian painter of the Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) artistic school with, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), (left), at the writers house in 1907. Date: 1907

RAF Poster, Back Them Up! WW2
RAF Poster, Back Them Up!, showing Hurricanes of the RAF cooperating with the Russian Air Force during the Second World War. 1940s

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Tsar Nicholas II (Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov, 1868-1918), last Tsar of Russia (reigned 1894-1918). Date: circa 1900

Swan Lake ballet, Siegfried and Odette fall in love
Siegfried and Odette fall in love while the little swans dance. Because of an evil spell, they are swans by day, and only resume human shape at midnight

Checkpoint Charlie reconstruction, Berlin, Germany
Reconstruction of Checkpoint Charlie for visitors to the museum in Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Germany

Poster advertising a Dance Festival in the USSR
Poster advertising a Dance Festival in Moscow and Leningrad, USSR, 10 to 20 June 1936

9th Hampshire Regiment in Vladivostock
The 9th (Cyclist) Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment march through the streets of Vladivostock, about to set off for Omsk in Siberia

GURDJIEFF (1872-1949)
Georgei Ivanovitch Gurdjieff Russian spiritual leader (in 1935)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Communist leader in disguise
A photograph of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin (1870 - 1924), Communist leader in disguise, August 1917

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