Leningrad Collection (#10)

Last Moments of the Czar, (c1857). Creator: Herbert K Bourne
Last Moments of the Czar, (c1857). The death of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (1796-1855), who died on 2 March 1855 at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg

The Mammoth of St. Petersburg, 1883. Creator: Unknown
The Mammoth of St. Petersburg, 1883. From " St. Nicholas: Volume X. Part I. November 1882, to May 1883". [Scribner & Co. New York, 1883]

Leningrad - Intourist, Early 1930s. Private Collection

The War Gallery of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, c. 1830s (oil on canvas)
BAL174060 The War Gallery of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, c.1830s (oil on canvas) by Chernetsov, Nikanor Grigor evich (1805-79); State Hermitage Museum, St

Lenin and Stalin Speaking to Red Guards in the Smolny, 1917, (1939). Creator: Pyotr Vasilyev
Lenin and Stalin Speaking to Red Guards in the Smolny, 1917, (1939). Russian communist revolutionaries Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) and Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)

The Bolsheviks cover official buildings with their art, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, 1918

A patrol hunting down suspects following the revolt at Vyborg, Russia, early 20th century. Vyborg is on the outskirts of St Petersburg

Russian revolutionaries in Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, 1917

Mikhailovsky Gardens in winter, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Russia / Soviet Union: Advertising poster for the Leningrad Festival of Arts, June 1-10, 1935. Nikolay Zhukov, 1935
Art Deco is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in France after World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s

The storming of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russian Revolution, October 1917
The storming of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg (Petrograd/Leningrad), Russian Revolution, October 1917

Lenin giving speech from balcony, St Petersburg, Russia
Lenin giving a speech from the balcony of the Kshesinskaya Palace, St Petersburg, Russia, in the year of the Russian Revolution. Date: 4 July 1917

Karl Bulla, Russian photographer C014 / 0748
Karl Bulla (1855-1929). Portrait of the prominent Russian photographer Karl Karlovich Bulla (or Carl Oswald Bulla) standing next to his camera

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