A reading hall in the Finnish National Library in Helsinki (Helsinki University Library) serves as the university and national library at the same time.16.09.1967#6652221
The Kuibyshev Kolomna Diesel Locomotives Plant. In 1900, the Kolomna Steam Locomotives Plant, later renamed the Kolomna Diesel Locomotives Plant, manufactured its first diesel locomotive.29.06.1967#5566431
In 1869, the Kuibyshev Kolomna Diesel Locomotives Plant manufactured its first freight-train steam locomotive.29.06.1967#5566430
Countess Yelizaveta Shuvalova's Rose Ball at the Palace of the Naryshkin-Shuvalov. St. Petersburg, June 27, 1914. Photographed by Karl Bulla. A photo from the private collection of Karl Bulla Historical Photo Foundation in Leningrad.27.06.1967#6128460
A monument to the sailors of the battleship Potyomkin in Odessa in the Ukrainian SSR. Sculptor V. A. Bogdanov.08.07.1966#5482386
Leningrad. The Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was built in 1801-1811 to a design by architect Andrei Vioronikhin. In 1932, it accommodated the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and no divine services were held there during that period.15.07.1965#6043458
Universitetskaya Embankment and the building of Kunstkamera, now the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, as seen from Neva River in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg.01.07.1965#6027422
Square of Arts in Leningrad. The monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin designed by sculptor M.Anikushin and architect V.Petrov and unveiled in 1957 to mark the city's 250th anniversary. Background: main building of the State Russian Museum Complex, the Mikhailovsky Palace, built in 1819 -1825 by architect Carlo Rossi.01.07.1965#6027409
The obelisk to Emperor Peter the Great at the Peter the Great's Boat Estate Museum (a branch of the Pereslavl Reserve Museum), installed on August 17, 1852, and designed by Alexander Campioni.03.06.1965#5901661
Arch between Senate and Synod (1829-1834) at Decembrists' Square (Senate Square) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg currently). Architect Carlo Rossi (1775- 1849).01.04.1965#667294
The University Embankment in Leningrad. The building of the Kunstkammer, now the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences.30.03.1965#6026824
The 1699-1923 Russian jack (ship flag) and fortress flag and that of modern Russia (approved July 21, 1992).25.07.1964#5958300
Portrait of Tsarevich Peter II, 1670s, by a 17th century unknown painter. Moscow school. Oil and tempera on wood. The State Pushkin Museum collection. Reproduction.21.07.1964#5757354
Russian historical silver coins of the Peter the Great period: poltina (50-kopeck coin), polupoltina (25-kopeck coin) and grivennik (10-kopeck coin) (top down).01.10.1963#2589787
Moscow Trader Club on Malaya Dmitrovka Street. 1912. Architect: Illarion Ivanov-Schitz. Today the building hosts Lenkom Theater.01.01.1962#5678901
The building of Admiralty in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). The foundation for the building was laid in 1704; in 1732-1738, it was reconstructed by architect Ivan Korobov. In 1823, architect Andreyan Zakharov reconstructed the building, with only the steeple of the original design left.20.07.1956#5964805
Portrait of Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin by Salvator Tonchi, 1801. The State Tretiakov Gallery collection.01.01.1952#5475062
The construction of the Red Army Central Theater (today's Russian Army Central Academic Theater) designed by Karo Alabyan and Vasily Simbirtsev (with participation of Boris Barkhin), Moscow, 1938.01.06.1938#5699143
Removing a two-headed eagle from the Moscow Kremlin's Nikolskaya Tower in October 1935.14.10.1935#5500382
Imperial eagles on the Kremlin wall towers were replaced with five-point stars in 1935.07.03.1935#3053484
Joseph Stalin (b.1879, d.1953), Soviet revolutionary, political, state, military and party figure, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1924-1953), Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Generalissimo of the Soviet Union.15.10.1919#6043205
Alexander Protopopov (1866-1918), the last Interior Minister of the Russian Empire, a politician, a major landlord, an industrialist and a member of the State Duma from the Simbirsk Region.15.10.1916#6043204
Worl War I (July 28, 1914 - November 11, 1918.) On August 23, 1915, Emperor Nicholas II took over the supreme command of the front thus opening a new stage in Russia's war against Germany and Austria-Hungary. The last Russian tsar is seen here with an icon in his hand on one of the battle positions.30.08.1915#6724289
World War I (1914-1918). Public prayer on Moscow's Red Square for the bestowal of victory, 1915.01.07.1915#3230105
World War I (1914-1918). The Eastern (Russian) Front. Soldiers of the Russian army try to avoid barbed wire entanglements near German entrenchments, 1915.01.06.1915#3230104
World War I (1914-1918). The Eastern (Russian) Front. Dead bodies of German soldiers, 1915.01.03.1915#3230103
A manifestation outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on the day of declaring war on Germany. July 20 (August 2 according to the New Style), 1914.02.08.1914#3230102
Moscow. The Shanyavsky Moscow City Public University at Miusskaya Square. 1912-1915.01.08.1914#3021195
Copy of a photograph of the trial flight by Ilya Muromets airplane designed by the Russian Baltic Train Company in 1913.12.02.1913#5576870
Adjutant General and Artillery General Nikolai Ivanov (1851-1919) was a Russian military commander.15.10.1908#6043193
Bloody Sunday. St. Petersburg workers march on January 9, 1905. Photo from the Obukhov Plant Museum.09.01.1905#5636317
Moscow. The finishing shop at the Abrikosov and Sons Confectionery, late 19th century.01.08.1899#3021192
Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) was a Russian revolutionary, the wife of Vladimir Lenin, a Soviet government minister, party, public and cultural activist and an organizer and main ideologist of the Soviet education system and that of Communist indoctrination for young people. This photo was taken during her Siberian exile.02.07.1896#6043191
A typhoid hospital in the Novaya Sloboda village, Lukoyanovsky County (now Bolsheboldinsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region). 1891-1892. A photo copy by M. Dmitriyev.01.01.1892#6410614
Old Moscow. Sretenka Street in the early 1880s with the Sukharev Tower in the background.02.07.1882#5746391
The Russian Empire's naval expedition to the United States of North America in 1863-1864. Photo: A group of officers from the Russian naval squadron in Boston.30.11.1864#5928999
