Russian Collection (page 8)

Diaghilev Photo Sacha
SERGEY PAVLOVICH DIAGHILEV Russian Art critic and impresario. A key figure in producing the Ballet Russes

Rachmaninov (Manuel)
SERGEI RACHMANINOV Russian musician

Tolstoy Sits on Bench
LEO TOLSTOY the Russian novelist about a year before his death

Soviet Cosmonaut
Russian cosmonaut VALENTINA TERESCHKOWA (born 1937) is the first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6

Alexander Tvardovsky
ALEXANDER TVARDOVSKY Russian poet, whose subjects were peasant life, collective farms, and the spiritual growth of the soldier during the Great Patriotic War

Leonid Leonov
LEONID LEONOV Russian novelist and play- wright, author of the patriotic play Invasion written during the early stage of the Patriotic War

Anton Rubinstein
ANTON RUBINSTEIN Russian musician

Russian Sailor on Steps
A sailor walks down the famous Odessa Steps, Russia

Bell at Battle of Alma
Captain Bell of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers captures a Russian gun at the Battle of Alma. He was awarded the Victoria Cross

Ivan / Terrible / Pledges
IVAN IV (IVAN THE TERRIBLE) Russian Royalty Pledges himself to gods service

Igor Stravinsky / Postcard
Russian musician, IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

BORODIN
ALEKSANDR PORFIRYEVICH BORODIN Russian composer, and chemist

MENDELEYEV
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev Russian Chemist

Entrance to the dockyard, Portsmouth
Entrance to the dockyard at Portsmouth, where Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956) disappeared on 19 April 1956

American soldiers shake hands w. Russians River Elbe, 1945 W
American soldiers of the First Army shake hands with Russian counterparts as the two sides meet at Torgau on the River Elbe, 1945 World War II

Panjdeh incident - Russian encounter with Afghan forces at Pul-i-Khishty (Brick Bridge). The incident of 1885 was a diplomatic crisis between the British Empire

Alexey Ivanovich Tevkelev, Kutlu-Mohammed Tevkelev (1674-1766), Tatar Murza (aristocrat), Russian diplomat and soldier, founder of the city of Chelyabinsk, major general

Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, Kazakh-Soviet officer and author
Baurzhan Momyshuly (Momish-Uly) (1910-1982) - a Kazakh-Soviet military officer and author. As an author he wrote several books - military prose, stories and novels for adults and children

Russo-Japanese War - Propaganda - The Caged Russian Bear
A spectacular Russo-Japanese War propaganda postcard - The Caged Russian Bear peered at by Japanese children, women and soldiers in uniform. Date: circa 1905

Russo-Japanese War - Propaganda - Sinking toy Russian Ships
A superb Russo-Japanese War propaganda postcard - Japanese children (in uniform) and a Geisha sink toy Russian Ships with blowpipes and darts at a fair

Russian Imperial Standard, National Flag and Naval Flag
WW1 era - The Russian Flags - The Imperial Standard, National Flag and Naval Flag. Date: circa 1910s

The Triple Entente
Coloured lantern slide that shows the British Union Flag, French Tricolour and a flag displaying the Russian coat of arms

Russian army uniforms, WW1
Russian army uniforms during the First World War. From left to right: general, guards infantry officer, guards infantryman, sergeant, guards infantryman. Date: 1914-1918

(from left) Eduard Willy Kurt Herbert von Dirksen (1882-1955) - German diplomat and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, standing behind Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin (1872-1936)

Russia - Sevastopol Sebastopol inner harbour, Crimea Ukraine
19th century vintage photograph Russia - Sevastopol Sebastopol inner harbour, Crimea Ukraine

Conference Yalta, Crimea, 1945 Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin
Big Three Conference Yalta, Crimea, 1945 World War II - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, USA President Roosevelt and Russian leader Joseph Stalin

Celebrities in the guise of Gods and Muses - Anrep Mosaic
Celebrities in the guise of Gods and Muses - represented in mosaics in the National Gallery, London Entrance Hall - the work of Boris Anrep (1883 - 1969), a Russian mosaicist active in Britain. 1933

La Rubia de Jerez, Mate y Maria de Albaicin and Mate El Sin Pies performing the Cuadro Flamenco, a suite of Andalusian dances which form a key part of Diaghilevs Ballets Russes performance at Princes

The Russian Mountains, Les Montagnes Russes, Paris, 1812
Fashionable couple at the Russian Mountains rollercoaster, Les Montagnes Russes a Belleville, built in 1812. (The first switchback, Year VII, 1799). Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Worlds First Woman Ambassador, Alexandra Kolontay
Alexandra Kolontay (or Kollontai), (1872 - 1952), Marxist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1915 on as a Bolshevik (later Communist)

Russian banya or sauna, 18th century
Russian banya, sauna or public baths, 18th century. Men and women scourging themselves with birch leaves, men throwing buckets of water on hot stones

Teresa Feoderovna Ries sculpting a bust of Mark Twain
Teresa Feoderovna Ries (18741950), Russian-born Austrian sculptor and painter, sculpting a bust of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens, 1835-1910), American author. circa 1898

Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period - Gobi Desert
Dinosaurs of the Gobi Desert (Russia) of the Cretaceous Period, which spanned 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period 145 million years ago

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899 - 1918), third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna

Khadzhimukan Munaitpasov, Kazakh wrestler
Khadzhimukan Munaitpasov (Kazhymukan/Hadjimukan Munaytpasov, Qajymuqan Munaitpasuly, 1871-1948), Kazakh wrestler, repeated World Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling (from 1910 onwards)

Russian - Murrays Cabaret Club costume design
Russian - Original costume design for one of the performers at Murrays Cabaret Club, 16-18 Beak Street, Soho, London

Rio Nido Hotel, Sonoma County, California, USA
Rio Nido Hotel, Russian River, Sonoma County, California, USA, a famous music venue. Date: 1942

Steam train on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia. Date: circa 1900

Programme for Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin showcase
The cover of the programme for a Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin Gala Performance of Ballet at the Granada, Woolwich, London

The Ovaltineys - promotional act for Ovaltine - Russian show
The Ovaltineys or League of Ovaltineys was a childrens club developed in the 1930s to promote the sale of Ovaltine brand drink in the United Kingdom - A Russian show Date: circa 1930s

Advertising Russian Pneumatic Tyres in Belgium
Advertising - Provodnik Russian Pneumatic Tyres in Belgium - " This is what I need to prevent skidding!". Date: circa 1910

Russian soldier in gas mask, eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldier in a rubber gas mask on the eastern front, Russia, during the First World War. The man breathes through a hole in the top of the tin which is filled with charcoal and chemicals

Empress Marie of Russia
The Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia (1847-1928). Date: c. 1914

Russian cossack uniforms, WW1
Russian cossack uniforms during the First World War. From left to right: Don cossack, Ural cossack, field artillery officer, Kuban cossack, field artilleryman. Date: 1914-1918

Soviet poster, Lenin points the way forward
Soviet poster showing Lenin behind a red banner, pointing the way forward for the October Revolution. Date: circa 1917

Russian Tzars - Saint Nicholas - 1894-1917

Russian Tzars - Alexander The Peace Maker (Iii) - 1881-1894

Russian Tzars - Alexander Ii - 1855-1881

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