Russian Collection (page 99)

Crimean War / Balaclava
British Light Cavalry attacking the Russian guns

Red Army Soldiers resting 1920
Russian Civil War - Red Army Soldiers resting on the Polish Front

Russian Civil War 1918
Russian Civil War - Red Army entering Kazan

Russian man driving horse-drawn sleigh
A Russian man driving a horse-drawn sleigh

The Happy Prince / Robinson
Gorgeous illustration by Charles Robinson showing a snow queen in her sleigh pulled by heavily decorated reindeer. The onion domes of a Russian church or cathedral can be seen in the background

German Plane in Action
A German Messerschmitt 110 blasts a column of Russian troops as they retreat before the invincible might of the victorious German forces

Germans Search House
Three German soldiers search a Russian peasant home : its easy while summer lasts, but soon it will be winter and not so agreeable

Tsar Alexander Ii / A Gill
TSAR ALEXANDER II depicted with the Russian bears feet

Wwi / Russian Plane / 1914
A Russian officer attaches a bomb to the side of his aircraft

Wwi / Russo-German Air War
A dogfight between Russian and German aircraft. One of the earliest pictures of air warfare

Russian Wedding Feast
The village priest officiates at the wedding feast : evidently the matter is one to be taken seriously, judging by the solemn faces

Russian Bride / Groom
Bride and groom

Alexander Nevsky / Helmet
The Helmet of Alexander Nevsky, Russian hero & Prince of Novogorod

Emilie Plater
countess EMILIE PLATER heroine of Polish insurrection against Russian rule

Nikolay Roerich / Exhib Ct
NIKOLAY KONSTANTINOVICH ROERICH Russian artist, traveller and archaeologist

Rimsky-Korsakov / Frontisp
NIKOLAY ANDREYEVICH RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian composer in later life

John Bull has a Rival
John Bull makes a pass at Japan, but finds that he has a Russian rival who is interested in Port Arthur which has just been ceded to Japan by China

Tolstoy / Anon
LEO TOLSTOY Russian novelist in old age

Yi Pugachov / Peter III
YEMELYAN IVANOVICH PUGACHOV Russian Cossack soldier who proclaimed himself Tsar Peter III and led a rebellion against Catherine II

Pachmann / Vladimir / Pcard
VLADIMIR VON PACHMANN Russian pianist, best known for his performances of Chopin

Napoleon Escapes
The Narrow Escape - an apocryphal story claims that Napoleon, during his Russian campaign, escaped from some Cossacks by jumping from a window into a pigsty

Battle of Moscow, 1812
The battle of MOSCOW - the French overcome the Russian resistance and take the city, which they will subsequently leave in flames

French Retreat, Russia
The French army retreats from Moscow

Menshikov / Aleksandr / Iln
PRINCE ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH MENSHIKOV Russian soldier who commanded forces in the Crimea

Metchnikoff / Nos Maitres
ELIE METCHNIKOFF (ILYA ILICH MECHNIKOV) Russian zoologist and bacteriologist

Russian Gun Captured
Captain Bell single-handed captures a Russian gun and brings it back to camp in a horse-drawn wagon

Bomarsund Bombarded - 1
Bomarsund, a Russian fortress in the Baltic, is bombarded by Hecla and other British warships before being taken by a combined French and British force under sir Charles Napier

Lyadov / Anatoly / Ryepin
ANATOLY KONSTANTINOVICH LYADOV Russian composer, studied under Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian Steam Tram
A steam tram in the streets of St Petersburg

Alexander at Plevna
BATTLE OF PLEVNA : Alexander, king of Romania, commander of the Russian forces, watches the action in which the Turks under Osman Pasha are finally defeated and have to retreat

Ivan III the Great
IVAN III VASILYEVICH, known as The Great, Grand Prince of Moscow, son of Vasily II, throws off the Tartar yoke and enlarges the Russian state

Alexander I Nevsky
ALEXANDER I YAROSLAVICH, known as Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod from 1238. ruler of Vladimir from 1252 : a national hero who laid the foundations of Russia

1859 / Shamil Surrenders
The Caucasian leader Shamil surrenders to Prince Barriatinski, thus effectively ending Caucasian resistance to Russian subjugation

1688 / TSAR PETERs BOAT
The boat rebuilt by Peter I, which became known as the Grandfather of the Russian fleet. His discovery of this boat aroused his interest in ship design and seamanship

Tsar Meets Kaiser / 1903
Russian Tsar Nicholas II meets German Kaiser Wilhelm II. France watches mistrustfully through the window

Rus / Jap War: Russ Bodies
Japanese find the bodies of Russian sailors washed up on the Liao-Toung shore

Rus / Jap War: Convicts
Desperate in the face of escalating defeat, the Russian army accepts convicts, released from their chains in Siberian prisons

Rus / Jap War / Oyama
Mukden : Japanese commander Marshal Oyama enters the city after Kuropatkin has withdrawn the Russian forces

Rus / Jap War / Linievich
Russian general Linievich contemplates the hopeless task before him in Manchuria

Rus-Jap War / Balloon
A Russian reconnaissance balloon keeps a watchful eye on the Japanese besiegers of Port Arthur

Rus / Jap War : Kuropatkin
The Russian general KUROPATKIN watches his infantry advance

Mikhail Vorontsov
MIKHAIL SEMYONOVICH VORONTSOV Russian military and prince

Suvorov Enters Warsaw
Suvorov enters Warsaw in command of the Russian troops who have taken the city after the insurrection proclaimed by Kosciuszko was defeated at Maciejowice

Doumer Assassinated
Paul Doumer, elected President in 1931, is assassinated by Gorgoulov, a White Russian

Kuropatkin / Hall / Graphic
ALEXEI NICHOLAIEVITCH KUROPATKIN Russian general in 1904

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