Russians Collection (page 5)

Greek Church Burned
Fighting in Lithuania between insurgents and Russians : a Greek church near Novogroudek is destroyed as a symbol of oppression

Warsaw Riots - 3
The midnight funeral of one of the victims of the Russians on 8 April, at St Roch hospital, Warsaw

Bolislas Kolyszko
Insurgent leader, captured and hanged by the Russians at Vilna on the orders of Muraviev

Insurgent Volunteers
At Krakow, a party of volunteers slip out of the town at night to elude the Russians and join the forces of insurrection

Russian Reprisals
The Russians carry out savage reprisals for the insurgents attacks : the village of Mologoszcza is left smouldering by Russians seeking revenge

Fighting at Konowice
Insurgents and Russians contest the railway bridge at Konowice, on the main line to Warsaw

Battle of Miechow
Battle between the insurgents and the Russians in the streets of Miechow

Warsaw Riots - 1
A demonstration demanding reform is held before the viceregal castle : the Russians disperse it with great brutality and many deaths

Rebels Suppressed
In conflict with the Russians, Polish patriots are once again defeated

Russian Brutality
A religious procession from the church of the Bernardins is suspected by the Russians of being a political demonstration, and dispersed with the usual brutality

Blown-up bridge in Warsaw
A bridge over the Vistula at Warsaw, blown up by the Russians in their retreat through Poland. In May 1915, the combined forces of Austria-Hungary

Polish V. Russians / 1863
Poles fight against the Russians at Zagosc

Rus / Jap War / Retreat
The Russians abandon Mukden, which is taken by the Japanese under Field-Marshal Orama

Crossing the Beresina
The French retreat : the passage of the Beresina river, following which some 36 000 bodies were found in the river by the Russians

Finns Repel Russians
The Finns repel invading Russians

Russians in Scandinavia
The Russians invade Scandinavia

Library Fired
Public library and Temple of the Winds set on fire by the Russians as they evacuated the area

Ipatjev, Kostroma
The Ipatjev monastery at Kostroma is a notable pilgrimage destination for orthodox Russians

Russian field hospital in France
The Russians specialised in Red Cross work, developing field hospital organisations since the Manchurian War. Pictured is a hospital staffed entirely by Russians in France

Racial / Russia / Bashkirs
Bashkirs in their village

Derbendt Russia
The town of Derbendt or Derbent, now in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, but once part of Persia. Figures in local dress and camels are in the foreground, with the walled city and hills beyond

Moscow Postcard
Scenes of the Russian capital ingeniously presented on the wings of a butterfly with a human body, evidence that the Russians can match kitsch with anyone

Russia / 1921 / Marriage
Even communists need ritual ceremonies ! A pair of Russians are joined in unholy matrimony in a civil marriage by a provincial commissar under a Red Flag

Karl Marx / Red Paint 1933
The Russians hope that if they give Marx a fresh coat of paint, it will cover up the cracks in his ideology

Battle of Zurich
The French revolution and the the creation of the Helvetian Republic drag Switzerland into the wars : the French defeat the Russians at Zurich twice, secondly at Devils Bridge

Russians in Manchuria
Questioned by his British and German allies what hes doing in Manchuria, the Cossack responds that he is the man in possession

Moscow White Russians
Resistance to the Bolsheviks is not yet over : White Russian troops defend the Kremlin against the extremists

Crossing the Berezina
CROSSING THE BEREZINA The retreating French army is attacked by the Russians as they cross the Berezina river, and an estimated 36, 000 bodies are recovered from the river

Russian War Loan Card 1
Patriotic Russians are invited to subscribe to a war loan to support the brave soldiers at the front, one of whom is depicted advancing between rocks with bayonet bared

Banner for Workers
Soldiers of the Pavlovsky Regiment hand a banner to workers at the Putilov factory who have played a notable part in the insurrection. Russians love these symbolic actions

Bear with Sore Head
Conflict with Turkey : the Russians are defeated at Oltenitza, leaving tsar Nikolai I a bear with a sore head : war in the Crimea is imminent

Dispute with China 3
A frontier dispute leads to fighting between China and Russia : the Chinese are on the far bank of the Amur, the Russians on this, seeking to relieve Blagovestchensk

Russians Harvesting
Russian peasant women at harvest-time

Polish Insurrection 1830
Peter Wysocki during the Warsaw insurrection against the Russians

Rus / Jap War: Jap Flags
The Emperor of Japan bestows flags on his soldiers as they set off to fight the Russians

Polish Kossinieri
Members of a patriotic secret society, the KOSSINIERI (literally, the scythers) swear to fight for the freedom of Poland against the hated Russians who rule them

Ww1 / 1915 / Hercules Hinden
Hindenburg, Our Hercules, deals firmly with the Russians and hurls them out of East Prussia

Great Northern War
BATTLE OF POLTAVA The Russians (led by Peter the Great) defeat the Swedish (led by Charles XII)

Turkish Refugees
Turkish refugees leaving their villages near Erzerum in fear of the Russians

Exhausted Soviet Men
Exhausted Russians resting in Prague in the course of their advance towards Germany

Russians in Berlin
Triumphant Russian soldiers on a ruined bunker on the outskirts of Berlin

Germany Capitulates
The signed German Act of Capitulation to the Russians, effectively ending the war in the west

Russians in Ukraine
Soviet commando unit fight to recapture a village in Ukraine

Attempted Break-Out
An unsuccessful attempt by the Russians to breach the German defences

Russians Bathing
Soviet soldiers enjoy a Russian steam bath

Russians in Trench
Soviet troops in a trench. The gun is a 7.62 PPSH sub-machine gun

Russians Storm House
Soviet officer urges troops to storm a house during street fighting

Russians Eat US Meat
Soviet soldiers eat American tinned meat supplied under the lend-lease agreement

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