Group Portrait Collection (#82)

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia on an expedition, c1880. Grand Duke Michael (1832-1909) was the fourth son of Tsar Alexander I and Charlotte of Prussia

The family of Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, Taganrog, Russia, 1874. Artist:s Isakovich
The family of Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, Taganrog, Russia, 1874. Chekhov (1860-1904) (second from left) is regarded as one of Russias finest playwrights

Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers), group of Russian artists, 1888. Artist: Andrei Deniere
Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers), group of Russian artists, 1888. Peredvizhniki were a group of Russian Realist artists. In 1870 they founded an artists cooperative

Tsar Alexander III of Russia with his family, c1886. Artist: Nadar
Tsar Alexander III of Russia with his family, c1886. Alexander III (1845-1894) with Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) and their five children, Grand Dukes Nicholas (1868-1918)

Russian author Leo Tolstoy with family on his wifes birthday, Russia, 1900s. Artist: Sophia Tolstaya
Russian author Leo Tolstoy with family on his wifes birthday, Russia, 1900s. Tolstoy (1828-1910) married Sophia Andreyevna Behrs (1844-1919) in 1862

Russian author Leo Tolstoy with guests, Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula, Russia, 1895. Artist: Sophia Tolstaya
Russian author Leo Tolstoy with guests, Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula, Russia, 1895. Second from right is the composer Sergei Taneyev. Yasnaya Polyana was Tolstoys (1828-1900) home

Georgy Chulkov, Vasili Milioti and Genrich Tasteven, Russian writers, 1900s
Georgy Chulkov, Vasili Milioti and Genrich Tasteven, Russian artists, 1900s. Poet Chulkov (1879-1939), artist Milioti (1875-1943)

Russian author and poet Andrei Bely with symbolist authors, 1907. Andrei Bely was the pen name adopted by Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880-1934)

Konstantin Balmont, Sergei Poliakov and Modest Durnov, Russian poets, 1904
Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942), Sergei Poliakov and Modest Durnov, Russian poets, 1904. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

Theatre group of the Folk Theatre, Russia, 1892. Found in the collection of the The State Central A Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

The first dramatic theatre group in Warsaw, 1866. Found in the collection of the The State Central A Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

Russian playwrights, 1870s. Alexander Ostrovsky (centre) (1823-1886) with members of the Russian Playwrights Association. Found in the collection of the The State Central A Bakhrushin Theatre Museum

Students, members of a revolutionary cell in St Petersburg, Russia, 1908. Found in the collection of the State Museum of the Political History of Russia, St Petersburg

Pyotr Stolypin, Prime Minister of Imperial Russia, Orel, Russia, 1907. Stolypin (1862-1911) succeeded Ivan Goremykin as Russias prime minister in 1906

May Day meeting, Russia, 1920. Among those present are Bolshevik leader Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) and opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938)

A group of Red Army soldiers before leaving for the front, Petrograd, Russia, 1918. Found in the collection of the State Museum of the Political History of Russia, St Petersburg

Senior Soviet figures on the tribune of Lenins mausoleum, Red Square, Moscow, USSR, 1931. Author Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) with politicians Lazar Kaganovich (1893-1991)

League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, c1895
Members of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, Russia, c1895. The League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class was a left-wing political group founded in

Red Army soldiers of the 99th Infantry Division, USSR, 1928. Found in the collection of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow

Chemical defence unit (PVChO), USSR, 1930s. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Tsarina Maria Fyodorovna of Russia visiting a hospital in Kiev, 1915. Born Dagmar of Denmark, Maria Fyodorovna (1847-1928)

Professors of the Russian Academy of Arts, 1913. Found in the collection of the State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

Russian author Alexander Kuprin with friends in Paris, 1930s. Kuprin (1870-1938) was a short story writer described by Vladimir Nabokov as the Russian Kipling

Russian author Alexander Kuprin with his wife in Yalta, Crimea, early 20th century. Kuprin (1870-1938) was a short story writer described by Vladimir Nabokov as the Russian Kipling

Portrait of four children, 1910s. Artist: Georgi Vasilievich Trunov
Portrait of four children, 1910s. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Western visitors with locals, Nam San, Korea, 1900

Korean Girls, 1900

The King of Bavaria visiting the Imperial German Army headquarters, 1917. Left to right: Field Marshal von Hindenburg, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg, King Ludwig III of Bavaria

Archdukes Friedrich and Karl of Austria with their officers, World War I, 1915. Friedrich (1856-1936) was appointed Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian army in July 1914

World War 2: De Gaulle with exiled French government in Algeria, 1943. Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French General (centre), with members of the French government in exile in Algeria, November 1943

Austrian Imperial Family, c1764. Empress Maria Teresa (1717-1780), Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1740-1780) with husband Emperor Francis I (1708-1765)

Gustav Kirchhoff, Robert Bunsen and Henry Roscoe, scientists, c1860. Left to right: Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887), German physicist; Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen (1811-1899)

John Glenn and crew, June 1998. Seated are Curtis L Brown and Steven W Lindsey. Standing, from the left are Scott F Parazynski and Steven K Robinson, Chiaki Mukai, Pedro Duque and John H Glenn

Jesus and his Disciples at the Last Supper, 19th century
Jesus and his Disciples at the Last Supper, with inscription in Dutch

Russian author Anton Chekhov with family and friends, 1890. Chekhov (1860-1904) is regarded as one of Russias finest playwrights and one of the greatest writers of short stories

Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, singer Maria Maksakova and writer Aleksey Tolstoy, 1943
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), singer Maria Maksakova (1902-1974) and writer Aleksey Tolstoy, 1943. Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia with nurses outside a hospital, Russia, 1916. Born Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) married the future Tsar Alexander III in 1866

Author Maxim Gorky and Anton Chekhov between the actors of the Moscow Art Theatre, 1900
Maxim Gorky and Anton Chekhov with actors of the Moscow Art Theatre, Russia, 1900. Russian author Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was one of the pioneers of socialist realism in literature

Russian author Maxim Gorky in the Sreda (Wednesday) literature group, 1902. The right hand of the two men standing in the portrait

Grand Dukes Alexander Alexandrovich and Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, c1870-c1875(?). Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Grand Dukes Alexander Alexandrovich and Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, c1870-c1875(?). The future Tsar Alexander III (1845-1894) (top right) with his younger brother

Visitors with Russian author Alexander Kuprin and his family, Gatchina, Russia, early 20th century. Kuprin (1870-1938) was a short story writer described by Vladimir Nabokov as the Russian Kipling

Four Russian poets, early 20th century. Artist: Dmitri Spiridonovich Zdobnov
Four Russian poets, early 20th century. Group portrait of the Symbolist poets (left to right) Georgy Chulkov (1879-1939), Konstantin Erberg (1871-1942)

Sitting of the committee of Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaievna of Russia, early 20th century. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Russian Imperial family outside the Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russia, early 20th century. Artist: K von Hahn
Russian Imperial family outside the Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russia, early 20th century. Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna (1872-1918)

Henry P u-i, c1910. Henry P u-i (1906-1967) (Pu-Yi) the last emperor of China (1908-1912) whose Imperial titles were Hsuan-Tung and K ang-Te

Children of the Sklodowski family, Polish, c1870-1875. Left to right: Zosia, Hela, Maria (Marie Curie 1867-1934), Joseph and Bronya

The Mozart Family, 1780-1781. Artist: Johann Nepomuk Della Croce
The Mozart Family, 1780-1781. Leopold (1719-1787), leaning, holding his violin with his daughter Maria-Anna (Nannerl) (1751-1829) and son Wolfgang Amadaeus (1756-1791) at the keyboard

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist with members of her family in Warsaw, Poland, 1912. Marie Curie (1867-1934), with her sisters Hela Szalay and Bronya Dluska

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