Compulsory labor of the bourgeoisie during the Civil war in Russia. Labor duty in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was introduced by the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of October 5, 1918, according to which "bourgeois elements" were obliged to work. Petrograd (present-day Saint-Petersburg), 1918.06.11.1918#3039105
Writer Leo Tolstoy (left), biologist Ilya Mechnikov (right) and pianist Alexander Goldenveiser (center) talking.01.07.1909#4995
Left to right: Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleyev (1834-1907), Lord Cheney and Friedrich Blumbach on the Eiffel Tower. 19.09.1895#5816
Russian Emperor Alexander III (3rd from left) and Grand Duke Mikhail (2nd from left) near an ice fortress. 01.12.1894#28762