"Soyuz-4" spaceship before launching on Baikonur cosmodrome on January 14, 1969. A still from documentary "Four in Space".14.01.1969#771097
Spaceship Soyuz-4 before launching from Baikonur cosmodrome on January 14 of 1969 - still from film Four in space.14.01.1969#771234
The funeral service for Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin and pilot, engineer colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Seryogin, who died during a routine training flight when their MiG-15UTI crashed in the Vladimir Region, in Red Banner Hall of the Frunze Central House of the Soviet Army. Second left: pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. Fourth left: pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.30.03.1968#8520413
Alexei Peshkov Gorky spent his childhood at the Kashirin House, a subsidiary of the Order of Merit State Gorky Museum in Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod.06.03.1968#6067473
Alexey Leonov (left), commander of the automobile parade in Moscow, sitting inside a children's home-made motorcycle driven by seven-year-old Yura (right).20.09.1967#16339
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Kosygin and his grandson Alexei Gvishiani.03.07.1967#6442327
Reproduction of Alexei Bogolyubov's painting "The city of Nizhny Novgorod" from the museum of the World Literature Institute in Moscow01.02.1967#73574
His Imperial Highness, Sovereign Heir Tsarevich, Grand Duke of Russia Alexei Nikolaevich. Photo reproduction. The State History Museum. 01.01.1967#99751
Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin (centre) and accompanying persons at the Sud Aviation works in Toulouse02.12.1966#87987
Cosmonauts Pavel Belyaev (right) and Alexey Leonov (left) having a stroll in Moscow suburban forest01.09.1966#16342
Alexei Maresyev (right), secretary of the Soviet War Veteran Committee, talking to delegates of the attending the 23rd congress of the Soviet Communist Party.06.04.1966#39383
Cover of the titles register of 1672 with the portrait of Tsar and the Great Prince Alexei Mikhailovich from the collection of the State museum of history in Moscow.01.01.1966#108257
USSR pilot cosmonaut, pilot of the Voskhod-2 spacecraft Alexei Leonov after landing. Photo from the archives of the APN publishing house.19.03.1965#8520338
Soviet space pilots Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyaev (left to right) preparing for a flight. March, 1965.01.02.1965#115762
The Visit of the delegations of the Chinese People's Republic and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to Moscow for the 47th anniversary of the celebration of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Meeting in the airport.05.11.1964#677988
Ceremonial meeting of Voskhod spaceship crew at Vnukovo airport. Crew members report to the Communist party and Soviet government leaders.19.10.1964#678157
Alexei, the son of Tsar Nicholas I. A reproduction of a photo from the History Museum collection. 01.01.1964#87737
"Portrait of Turgenev" (1875) by Alexei Harlamoff (1840-1922?). The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.01.05.1962#739943
Soviet pianist Alexei Nasedkin performing at the second Tchaikovsky international competition (pianists).01.01.1962#84661
Soviet pianist Alexei Nasedkin performing at the second Tchaikovsky international competition (pianists).01.01.1962#84660
The USSR's Politbureau member Anastas Mikoyan (second left) and First Vice-Prime Minister of the Alexei Kosygin (fourth right) among Soviet athletes at a government reception01.01.1960#87950
The 6th all-Union exhibition of graduating works of students of the USSR art schools of 1957 and 1958. Damnation for Aggressors painting by Alexei Shmarinov.13.07.1958#3318235
USSR gymnastics champions in 1958, all round USSR gymnastics champions Boris Titov and Yuri Shakhlin.01.01.1958#2618285
Actor Nikolai Boyarsky as painter Petushkov in a scene from the movie The Living Corpse, the screen adaptation of the eponymous play by Leo Tolstoy directed by Vladimir Vangerov at Lenfilm studio in 1968.01.07.1952#771456
Reproduction of Maxim Gorky portrait by painter Isaak Brodsky. 1937. The State Tretyakov Gallery.01.08.1927#439967
The 1917 Revolution in Russia. Nicholas II was arrested after abdication. The former Russian emperor and his family were sent into exile to Tobolsk. The Romanovs were settled on the second flor of a former governor's home. Nicholas II with his children (grand duchesses Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia and the heir, Alexei) on the roof of the house in Tobolsk where they lived between September 1917 and April 1918.05.04.1918#6726781
