Meeting people from different historical epochs during celebrations of St. Petersburg's tricentennial anniversary.01.06.2003#385231
Monastery of Saint Michael the Archangel (18th century) in Yuryev-Polsky. Wall fragments.01.06.2003#451264
A pond near the Monastery of Saint Michael the Archangel (18th century) in the town of Yuryev-Polsky. Right: Church of John the Evangelist (1674).01.06.2003#451248
An alley at the Gorki Leninskiye state historical museum-reserve featuring an architectural-artististic ensemble of the last quarter of the 18th century.01.06.1998#459711
The Middle Palace [Opera House] was built in 1776-1778 to a design by architect Vasily Bazhenov at the Moscow-based Tsaritsyno Palace-Park Ensemble.01.01.1998#518481
The Middle Palace [Opera House] was built in 1776-1778 to a design by architect Vasily Bazhenov at the Moscow-based Tsaritsyno Palace-Park Ensemble.01.01.1998#518478
The Middle Palace [Opera House] was built in 1776-1778 to a design by architect Vasily Bazhenov at the Moscow-based Tsaritsyno Palace-Park Ensemble.01.01.1998#518474
The Middle Palace [Opera House] was built in 1776-1778 to a design by architect Vasily Bazhenov at the Moscow-based Tsaritsyno Palace-Park Ensemble.01.01.1998#518471
America's bust made in the middle of the 18th century in Italy at the Kuskovo estate.01.06.1996#516817
An open-air sculpture of a Naiad made in the middle of the 18th century in Italy at the Kuskovo estate01.06.1996#516816
Vulcan's open-air sculpture made in the middle of the 18th century in Italy at the Kuskovo estate.01.06.1996#516815
Mercury's open-air sculpture made in the middle of the 18th century in Italy at the Kuskovo estate.01.06.1996#516814
Pluto's open-air sculpture made in the middle of the 18th century at the Kuskovo estate.01.06.1996#516802
The Crimson Drawing Room of the Big Palace (House) built in 1769-1775. Architect Karl Blank. Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781789
The Painting Hall of the Big Palace (House) built in 1769-1775. Architect Karl Blank. Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781788
The Coach Hall of the Big Palace (House) built in 1769-1775. Architect Karl Blank. Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781787
Everyday Bedchamber in Big Palace (House) built in 1769-1775. Architect Karl Blank. Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781786
The front bedroom of the Grand Palace (Home) built in 1769-1775 designed by architect Karl Blank at the Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781785
Billiard Hall in the Grand Palace (Home) built in 1769-1775 designed by architect Karl Blank at the Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781784
Floor lamp in the Ballroom of the Grand Palace (Home) built in 1769-1775 designed by architect Karl Blank at the Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781783
The Green Living Room of the Grand Palace (Home) built in 1769-1775 designed by architect Karl Blank at the Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781782
The Dance Hall of the Grand Palace (Home) built in 1769-1775 designed by architect Karl Blank at the Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781781
The Dance Hall of the Grand Palace (Home) built in 1769-1775 designed by architect Karl Blank at the Kuskovo Architecture and Art Ensemble.01.01.1996#781780
Wooden sculpture "Hosts" by artist Dmitry Domnina in the 18th century, at the Perm State Art Gallery.01.04.1995#780850
Wooden sculpture "Christ with a Palm Branch in Prison", made in the 18th century, at the Perm State Art Gallery.01.04.1995#780849
The St. Clement's Church dedicated to a Roman Pope, St. Clement I, in Klimentovsky Pereulok in Moscow (18th century). Designed by architect Pietro Antonio Trezzini.01.06.1993#6598653
Valaam Monastery on Valaam Island of Lake Ladoga in the Republic of Karelia. The Skete of All Saints (White Skete) is the first skete founded and the largest skete on the Valaam archipelago.02.09.1991#8754597
The State Museum of the USSR Nations Applied Crafts (today Tsaritsyno State Museum Reserve). A summer cafe in the museum complex.15.07.1991#6614105
The city of Vilkovo in the Izmail district of the Odessa Region (on the border with Romania). Most of the local population are Lipovans (Old Believers of the priestly direction and an ethnographic group of Russians who moved here in the late 17th - early 18th centuries after Nikon's church reforms). Lipovans near a local church.06.05.1991#8329315
The city of Vilkovo in the Izmail district of the Odessa Region (on the border with Romania). Most of the local population are Lipovans (Old Believers of the priestly direction and an ethnographic group of Russians who moved here in the late 17th - early 18th centuries after Nikon's church reforms). The main form of transport for the residents of Vilkovo is a boat. Ukrainian SSR.06.05.1991#8332537
The city of Vilkovo in the Izmail district of the Odessa Region (on the border with Romania). Most of the local population are Lipovans (Old Believers of the priestly direction and an ethnographic group of Russians who moved here in the late 17th - early 18th centuries after Nikon's church reforms). A Lipovan house is surrounded by beautiful gardens. Ukrainian SSR.06.05.1991#8332532
The city of Vilkovo in the Izmail district of the Odessa Region (on the border with Romania). Most of the local population are Lipovans (Old Believers of the priestly direction and an ethnographic group of Russians who moved here in the late 17th - early 18th centuries after Nikon's church reforms). The icon of the Savior and the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the house of the Lipovans. Ukrainian SSR.06.05.1991#8332523
The city of Vilkovo in the Izmail district of the Odessa Region (on the border with Romania). Most of the local population are Lipovans (Old Believers of the priestly direction and an ethnographic group of Russians who moved here in the late 17th - early 18th centuries after Nikon's church reforms). Ukrainian SSR.06.05.1991#8332522
The city of Vilkovo in the Izmail district of the Odessa Region (on the border with Romania). Most of the local population are Lipovans (Old Believers of the priestly direction and an ethnographic group of Russians who moved here in the late 17th - early 18th centuries after Nikon's church reforms). People in Vilkovo move mostly on the water. Ukrainian SSR.06.05.1991#8332521
The city of Vilkovo in the Izmail district of the Odessa Region (on the border with Romania). Most of the local population are Lipovans (Old Believers of the priestly direction and an ethnographic group of Russians who moved here in the late 17th - early 18th centuries after Nikon's church reforms). Lipovans and Father Izmail at a local church.06.05.1991#8332520
The city of Vilkovo in the Izmail district of the Odessa Region (on the border with Romania). Most of the local population are Lipovans (Old Believers of the priestly direction and an ethnographic group of Russians who moved here in the late 17th - early 18th centuries after Nikon's church reforms). Lipovan woman Alexandra Stoyanova prepares firewood. Ukrainian SSR.06.05.1991#8332518
The city of Vilkovo in the Izmail district of the Odessa Region (on the border with Romania). Most of the local population are Lipovans (Old Believers of the priestly direction and an ethnographic group of Russians who moved here in the late 17th - early 18th centuries after Nikon's church reforms). The clergyman of the local church blesses the table before the commemoration.06.05.1991#8332517
Members of the Soviet-German group to search for the Amber Room in the cellars of the Ponart Koenigsberg brewery in Kaliningrad.24.06.1990#8335662
Office of Ukrainian philosopher of the 18th century Grigory Skovoroda in the Skovoroda Kiterature Memorial Museum in the village of Skovorodinovka.01.01.1990#479862
Gorodnya estate in the Kaluga region built in 1798 after a design by architect A.N. Voronikhin. The estate was owned by Princess Golitsyna since the second half of the 18th century. Members of the Goodwill city club in Kaluga remove rubbish from the stone waiter's room (a courtyard house of the estate).12.09.1989#6671949
Gorodnya estate in the Kaluga region built in 1798 after a design by architect A.N. Voronikhin. The estate was owned by Princess Golitsyna since the second half of the 18th century. Members of the Goodwill city club in Kaluga remove rubbish from the stone waiter's room (a courtyard house of the estate).12.09.1989#6671945
Belarusian SSR. Church of St. Peter and Paul (former Basilian monastery) in the village of Boruny, Oshmyany district, Grodno Region. It was built in 1757. The interior decoration of the temple.12.06.1989#8178789
The Otrada-Semyonovskoye Estate of the counts Orlov in Semyonovskoye, Moscow Region. Renovating the St. Nicholas Church (1778-1780) on the estate.15.04.1989#6646852
The Otrada-Semyonovskoye Estate of the counts Orlov in Semyonovskoye, Moscow Region. Renovating the St. Nicholas Church (1778-1780) on the estate. Restoring the clock on the bell tower.15.04.1989#6646851
The Cathedral of St. John the Warrior in Bolshaya Yakimanka Street in Moscow. Father Superior, protopriest Nikolai (Vedernikov) during a festive prayer service.01.11.1988#6288999
The Cathedral of St. John the Warrior in Bolshaya Yakimanka Street in Moscow. Father Superior, protopriest Nikolai (Vedernikov) conducts Eucharist.01.11.1988#6288998
The Cathedral of St. John the Warrior in Bolshaya Yakimanka Street in Moscow. Father Superior, protopriest Nikolai (Vedernikov) during a church service.01.11.1988#6288994
The Cathedral of St. John the Warrior in Bolshaya Yakimanka Street in Moscow. A wrought iron fence built in 1754-1758.01.11.1988#6288992
The Cathedral of St. John the Warrior in Bolshaya Yakimanka Street in Moscow. Built in 1704-1713. Designed by architect Ivan Zarudny.01.11.1988#6288991
An iconostasis and gallery of the Cossack Army's Resurrection Cathedral, built in 1706-1719 in Starocherkasskaya Stanitsa (Cossack Village) in the Rostov Region.01.10.1988#8218481
The Cathedral of St. John the Warrior in Bolshaya Yakimanka Street in Moscow. Father Superior, protopriest Nikolai (Vedernikov).01.10.1988#6288995
Father Mikhail, Superior of the Cathedral of Our Savior's Acheiropaeic Image (Our Savior's Cathedral) in Minusinsk.01.09.1988#6287829