Participants in the Northern Dimension forum visiting the dining room of the Yusupov Palace in St. Petersburg. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is left background.28.10.2008#355655
The Russian History in Wax Portrait exhibition of wax figures at the St. Petersburg Historical Museum of Wax Figures. Visitors to the exhibition are seen near the wax sculpture of Count Grigory Potemkin, creator of the Black Sea Navy and his first commander-in-chief, Field Marshal General, favorite of Catherine the Great.01.03.1992#8613680
The exhibits of the Wax Figures Museum in the Large Greenhouse Building in the Lower Park of Petrodvorets, now the Peterhof State Museum-Reserve. Photo: Empress Yelizaveta Petrovna is playing cards with Count Pyotr Shuvalov. Hetman of Ukraine Kirill Razumovsky is watching them. Deputy Chancellor of the Russian Empire, Count Mikhail Vorontsov, is reading in the background.28.08.1990#8295503
Figure of Emperor Peter III at the Petrodvorets (Peterhoff) Wax Museum in the Lower Park conservatory 01.03.1990#48085
Figure of Czarevich Alexei son of Peter the Great at the Petrodvorets (Peterhoff) Wax Museum in the Lower Park conservatory01.03.1990#48084
Figure of Empress Catherine I, wife of Peter the Great, at the Petrodvorets (Peterhoff) Wax Museum in the Lower Park conservatory01.03.1990#48083
Figure of Prince Grigory Potyomkin-Tavrichesky, general and statesman, at the Petrodvorets (Peterhoff) Wax Museum in the Lower Park conservatory01.03.1990#48082
Figure of statesman Alexander Menshikov at the Petrodvorets (Peterhoff) Wax Museum in the Lower Park conservatory01.03.1990#48081
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Museum of Medicine of Ukraine (currently the Nationla Museum of Medicine of Ukraine). A wax figure of Russian physician, Professor of Kiev University Vasily Obraztsov (1849-1920).13.10.1988#5721327
The State Hermitage. A wax figure of Peter the Great created in 1725 by Italian sculptor Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli. The sculptor used a wax mask of the emperor made when Peter the Great was alive.15.05.1970#6515429
