Gagarin Collection (#2)

Portrait of Count Sergei Sergeyevich Gagarin (1795-1852). Found in the Collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

The Ball in the House of Princess Maria Baryatinskaya, 1830s. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
The Ball in the House of Princess Maria Baryatinskaya, 1830s. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Caucasian traditional dress, 1840s. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
Caucasian traditional dress, 1840s. Private Collection

Drawing room in the House of Princess Anna Gagarina in Petersburg, 1799. Artist: Kolmann, Karl Ivanovich (1786-1846)
Drawing room in the House of Princess Anna Gagarina in Petersburg, 1799. Private Collection

Portrait of Christophor Dmitrievich Sanikidze, 1841. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
Portrait of Christophor Dmitrievich Sanikidze, 1841. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Portrait of Count Ksawery Korczak-Branicki (1814-1879), c. 1840. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
Portrait of Count Ksawery Korczak-Branicki (1814-1879), c. 1840. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Portrait of Countess Marta Sologashvili, Princess Eristavi, 1840-1842. Artist: Gagarin
Portrait of Countess Marta Sologashvili, Princess Eristavi, 1840-1842. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Grape harvesting, Between 1840 and 1847. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
Grape harvesting, Between 1840 and 1847. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Portrait of Princess Maria (Maiko) Orbeliani (1818-1849), 1840-1842. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
Portrait of Princess Maria (Maiko) Orbeliani (1818-1849), 1840-1842. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Count Sergey Vasilyevich Dolgorukov (1820-1853) at the Lars Station, 1840. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Aul Chirkey, Dagestan, 1841. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
Aul Chirkey, Dagestan, 1841. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Portrait of Nikolay Petrovich Kolyubakin (1811-1868), 1849. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
Portrait of Nikolay Petrovich Kolyubakin (1811-1868), 1849. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Illustration to the poem The Dream by M. Lermontov, Mid of the 19th century. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Portrait of Count Alexander Illarionovich Vasilchikov (1818-1881), 1841. Artist: Gagarin
Portrait of Count Alexander Illarionovich Vasilchikov (1818-1881), 1841. Found in the collection of State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The Baptism of Christ. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
The Baptism of Christ. Found in the collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

The Court of the Pavel Gagarins House. Artist: Martynov, Andrei Yefimovich (1768-1826)
The Court of the Pavel Gagarins House. Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Portrait of Prince Fyodor Fyodorovich Gagarin (1786-1863), 1830s. Artist: Hampeln, Carl, von (1794-after 1880)
Portrait of Prince Fyodor Fyodorovich Gagarin (1786-1863), 1830s. Found in the collection of the State Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow

The Shamakhi dancers, Mid of the 19th century. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
The Shamakhi dancers, Mid of the 19th century. Private Collection

Portrait of Count Vasily Fyodorovich Gagarin, c. 1810. Artist: Anonymous
Portrait of Count Vasily Fyodorovich Gagarin, c. 1810. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Cossacks fort in the Caucasus, 1846. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
The Cossacks fort in the Caucasus, 1846. Found in the collection of State Lermontov Museum Tarkhany

Woman of Shamakhy (From: Scenes, paysages, meurs et costumes du Caucase), 1840. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Terek Cossack with Daughter (From: Scenes, paysages, meurs et costumes du Caucase), 1840. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

A Kabardin man (From: Scenes, paysages, meurs et costumes du Caucase), 1840. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Prince of Megrelia (From: Scenes, paysages, meurs et costumes du Caucase), 1840. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Prince Kazbek of Ossetia (From: Scenes, paysages, meurs et costumes du Caucase), 1840. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

A Circassian (From: Scenes, paysages, meurs et costumes du Caucase), 1840. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Prince of Imereti (From: Scenes, paysages, meurs et costumes du Caucase), 1840. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Karl Bryullov, Vladimir Kornilov and Count Grigori Gagarin aboard the brig Themistocles, 1835. Found in the collection of the State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg

Scene from the opera A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) by M. Glinka, End 1830s. Found in the collection of the State Museum of Theatre and Music Art, St. Petersburg

View of Tiflis, 1840s. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
View of Tiflis, 1840s. Found in the collection of the Institut of Russian Literature IRLI (Pushkin-House), St Petersburg

Portrait of Count Pavel Pavlovich Gagarin (1789-1872), 1865. Artist: Borel, Pyotr Fyodorovich (1829-1898)
Portrait of Count Pavel Pavlovich Gagarin (1789-1872), 1865. From a private collection

Portrait of Countess Catherine von Tiesenhausen (1803-1888), 1830s. Artist: Gagarin, Grigori Grigorievich (1810-1893)
Portrait of Countess Catherine von Tiesenhausen (1803-1888), 1830s. Found in the collection of the Russian National Library, St. Petersburg

Murals of the Betania Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God. From Le Caucase Pittoresque, 1847. Private Collection

Moscow. April 1962, 1962
Moscow. April 1962

The Meeting of General Kluke von Klugenau and Imam Shamil in 1837, 1849. Artist: Grigory Gagarin
The Meeting of General Kluke von Klugenau and Imam Shamil in 1837, 1849. Imam Shamil (1797-1871) was a political and religious leader of the Muslim tribes of the northern Caucasus

Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, c1963-c1964. Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first man in space when he orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin with his wife, 1962. Gagarin (1934-1968) married Valentina Goryacheva in 1957. He became the first man in space when he orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April

Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, 1961. Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first man in space when he orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961

Russian rocket engineer Sergey Korolyov with cosmonauts, Crimea, USSR, c1960. Korolyov (1907-1966) was the leading Soviet rocket engineer

Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, 1960s. Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first man in space when he orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961

Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Russian cosmonaut, 1961. Czech postage stamp commemorating Gagarins (1934-1968) flight in Vostok, 12 April 1961, the first manned space flight

Monument to Yuri Gagarin, mid 20th century
Monument to the astronaut Yuri Gagarin, who came from Uzbekistan, mid 20th century

Illustrated London News front cover - Yuri Gagarin in London
Major Yuri Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut, pictured with Isaac Newtons telescope at the Royal Society during a visit to London in July 1961. Date: 1961

Cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, 1934-1968
Russian cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968 ). Date: 1961

Yuri Gagarin Statue
Statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first space cosmonaut, given by the Russian Space Agency to Great Britain

Portrait of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, the first man in space. Citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Hero of the Soviet Union, Flyer-Spaceman of the USSR

Cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, 1934-1968, is driven into Prague from the airport in April 1961

Soviet cosmonauts during television show broadcast from the central tv station in moscow, ussr, june 1963

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