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Old Russia

These photos range in history from the reign of Tsar Alexander II, starting in the mid-1800's through the early 1920's. They are not always in chronological order but rather arranged to best tell the history of that time. (They are all in the public domain.)
1649 - A legal code makes serfdom hereditary c. 1864 - Tsar Alexander II - The Liberator Tsar Alexander II's study in the Winter Palace Imperial champagne glass An old serf 1861 - Reading the Emancipation Manifesto
c. 1865 - Man with a pail c. 1865 - Priest 1868 - Check for $7,200,000 to pay Russia for the purchase of Alaska c. 1871 - Locksmith and assistant c. 1871- Potato seller c. 1871 - Washerwoman
c. 1871 - Keeping warm On the front line April 1878 - Cossacks celebrate before leaving for service 1880 - Ivan Turgenev c. 1880 - Officers of the Imperial Russian Army 1881 - Alexander II
g9/09/268309/3/155552924.pNqk8of8.jpg Tsar Alexander III 1881 - Assaulting a Jew in the presence of the military Cossacks on horseback 1905 - Pogrom in Odessa 1899 - Victim of a pogrom
1881 - Aftermath of a pogrom Maria Feodorovna with her three eldest children 1883 - Coronation of Tsar Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna 1884 - Polytechnical Museum 1886 - Old GUM, Moscow Infantry regiment and its band
February 1887 - Fifty Lashes 1888 - Tsar Alexander III with his family October 1888 - Imperial train wreck 1888 - Kuznetsky Most Street 1890's - Siberian Cossack c. 1890 - Woodsmen
c. 1890 - Sick with typhoid 1890 - Convicts on a boat to Sakhalin Island 1890 - Sleeping Beauty ballet 1892 - Tchaikovsky with Bob 1891 - The famine was so terrible it stunned even the Royal family 1892 - Famine
1893 - Sailors of the Imperial Russian Navy April 1894 - Tsarevich Nicholas engaged to Princess Alix of Hesse Peasant couple 1894 - Bridge across the Volga in Syzran c. 1895 - Peasant with pipe and dagger c. 1895 - Rumyantsev Museum (Pashkov House), Moscow
c. 1895 - The Richelieu stairs May 1896 - Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna May 1896 - One of 1,389 people trampled to death c. 1897 - Rimsky-Korsokov 1897 - Leo Tolstoy 1897 - Old Monk
1897 - Near a hospital-church 1897 - Alexander Nevsky Cathedral 1897 - Members of Kerzhensky Old Believers monastery 1897 - Tramps in Nizhniy Novgorod 1898 - Chekov reading The Seagull to members of the Moscow Art Theatre c. 1899 - Final scene of Chekov's Uncle Vanya
1898 - Regimental Officers of the Imperial Army 1898 - Russian Imperial Cavalry 1900's - Boys working on a street in Moscow c. 1900 - Three Imperial pages with two soldiers c. 1900 - Man on a troika Klezmer musicians
1900's - Beggar with a Ukrainian Lyra 1900's - Khitrov Market Open air market 1900 - Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky c. 1900 - Sergei Rachmoninov 1900 - Shopping in St. Petersburg
General Staff Building Cossacks 1900 - Leo Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky 1901 - 1st edition of Chekov's Three Sisters 1901 - Anton Chekov and Leo Tolstoy 1902 - Tolstoy
1902 - Leo Tolstoy, during illness, with daughter Tatyana 11 February 1903 - The entire imperial family 1903 - The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg 1903 - The Lower Depths or Scenes from Russian Life by Maxim Gorky c. 1904 - Writer Maxim Gorky, literary critic Vladimir Stasov, and artist Ilya Repin 1904 - Scientist Ivan Pavlov
1904 - Grigory Rasputin with Major-General Putyatin and Colonel Lotman 1904 - Repin, Stasov, Andreyev, Gorky, Tarhanov with the ladies June 1904 - Fight for the Dalin Pass June 1904 - On the Dalin Pass Russian soldiers stand above a trench of dead Japanese Execution of a Japanese spy
1905 - Russian battleship attacked and sinking Bloody Sunday, Jan. 1905 - Father Gapon leading unarmed workers... 22 January 1905 - Bloody Sunday massacre 1906 - Father Gapon hanged 1906 - Father Gapon autopsy Sheep shearing
c. 1905 - Men and boys, outside their homes, making baskets c. 1905 - Tolstoy and family at Yasnaya Polyana 1905 - Writer Maxim Gorky prodding singer Feodor Chaliapin 1905 - Anna Pavlova as The Dying Swan 1907 - Leo Tolstoy and painter Ilya Repin Old Cossack couple
Lighting up c. 1909 - Red Square, Moscow 1909 - Supervisor of Chernigov floodgate December 1909 - Nijinsky Youth and beauty 1909 - Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren
c. 1910 - Egorov bath house 1910 - Fabergé workshop Fabergé Easter eggs November 1910 - Ilya Repin reading of Tolstoy's death 1910 - Portrait of writer Korney Chukovsky (in black and white) 1910 - Girl in a hat
1900's - Together 1910 - Moscow flooded 1911 - Medical assistant with a convict 1912 - Officers of the Imperial Horse Guards c. 1912 - Church of St. Nicholas 1912 - Grigori Rasputin
1912 - Prince Felix Youssoupoff in costume of 18th century Russia 1913 - The Imperial family 1913 - Cathedral 1913 - Stanislavski as Argan in Moličre's The Imaginary Invalid 1914 - Pavlova (standing center) with other ballerinas 1914 - Postcard: Tango
1914 - Over 65 million men go to war Russian Imperial Army Officer Troops going to the front Women in the all-female Battalion of Death c. 1914 - The tsar among the troops Wounded going to the rear
c. 1914 - Nicholas Hall as hospital Sergei Prokofiev 1915 - Feodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov (Act 2) 1916 - Vladimir Lenin 1916 - Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and his son Valdimir (far left) 1916 - Tsar and children with Cossacks of the Imperial Guard
Mauve Room, Alexander Palace 1916 - Country teacher with her family 1917 - Credit Lyonnais 1917 - Soldiers on parade 13 March 1917 - Part of The Great Funeral April 1917 - Flooding in Moscow
1917 - Alexander Kerensky 1917 - Soldiers of the Provisional Government August 1917 - Lenin in disguise 1917 - Alexander Kerensky with troops on the Western Front 18 March 1917 - Women workers demonstrating.... October 1917 - Storming the Winter Palace
1917- Room of the Grand Duchess Tatiana 1917 - October Revolution, Civil War 1917 - October Revolution - Civil War 22 September 1917 - Leon Trotsky 1917 - White Russian officer The Red Army before being sent into battle
1919 - Red Guards during the civil war 1919 - Graduates of the Red Army officer training school c. 1919 - Leon Trotsky with Red Army soldiers 1919 - Volunteers for the White Army March 1919 - Joseph Stalin 1919 - May Day rally in Red Square
1920 - Peasants getting electricity for the first time 1920 - Bolshevik 1920 - After the revolution 1921 - Red Army has finished off enemies of the people 1921 - Famine 1921 - Waiting for food
1921 - 1st American food shipments arriving 1922 - The Forgotten Rescue

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Gary Holt19-Aug-2017 01:31
Interesting Collection
Cemil Gursen01-Jun-2017 22:44
Beautiful collection, presented very well. V
John Ewing07-Dec-2016 13:31
Every one of them fascinating. Thanks! V
Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro)06-Oct-2016 17:54
Very neautiful images. Congrats!V+
Paolo
Gervan05-Oct-2016 06:46
Another interesting gallery on Russian history. V.
Tom Briggs04-Mar-2015 20:47
Fascinating gallery on a fascinating people and period of history ... thanks for putting that together for all of us to enjoy .... v
Karen Moen10-Sep-2014 03:54
Beautifully documented history. Pictures tell so much more than just words. Well done! Voted.
settler31-Aug-2014 12:54
Photography doing what it does best!....BV!!
Alexander Kazakov25-Aug-2014 05:05
Very interesting collection! V
David Parsley23-Aug-2014 12:43
Great collection, and an interesting look at the history of Russia
Eduardo Carrión Letort09-Jul-2014 16:59
Fantastic gallery, thanks for sharing.
Petros Labrakos08-Jul-2014 10:00
great collection V!
Guest 15-May-2014 18:25
FASCINATING GALLERY. GOOD WORK HERE.
anuschka15-May-2014 09:56
Fascinating! V
clickA SF14-May-2014 01:44
Fascinating gallery, impeccable presentation, John! BV+++++
Ted
Jola Dziubinska12-May-2014 09:34
Great historical gallery, thanks for sharing those very interesting photos. V.
joseantonio12-May-2014 05:15
Fabulous work with this gallery.V.
Jim Flavin11-May-2014 12:02
fantastic gallery and photos .
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