Moscow Collection

Andrei Kolmogorov, Soviet mathematician
Andrei Kolmogorov (1903-1987), Soviet mathematician. Kolmogorov is widely considered one of the most prominent mathematicians of the 20th century

Lady Moscow, horse harness racing. Union Course, L.I. Date: 1850

Composer Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), 1900s
Composer Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Map of the Trans-Siberian Railway, produced by J. Bartholomew & Co. c. 1920 (engraving)
XJF696541 Map of the Trans-Siberian Railway, produced by J. Bartholomew & Co. c.1920 (engraving) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Metropole Hotel, Moscow
Moscow : Metropole Hotel

Anton Chekhov with Moscow Art Theatre group
Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (1860-1904) at the centre of a group of people from the Moscow Art Theatre -- Constantin Stanislavski on his right, Olga Knipper (Chekhovs wife) to Stanislavskis right

Carl Sagan, US astronomer
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996), US astronomer and astrochemist. Sagan was a consultant and adviser to NASA, and worked on the Apollo mission, as well as the Mariner, Viking, Voyager

Practicing synchronised swimming. Aerial view of swimmers training before a junior-league synchronised swimming competition. Photographed at Trud swimming pool, Moscow, Russia

Interior of Komsomolskaya Metro Station, Moscow, Russia, Europe

Composer Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Correction of the Piano Concerto No. 3 in Ivanovka, 1910
Composer Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Correction of the Piano Concerto No. 3 in Ivanovka

Our Lady of Vladimir. beg. 12th c. Icon moved from Constantinople to Kiev in 1136 and Vladimir in 1155. Iconographic type Eleusa or Virgin of Tenderness. Byzantine art. Tempera on wood. RUSSIA

Mayonnaise Sauce, 1938. Creator: Prokoptsev, Stepan Stepanovich (1905-1943)
Mayonnaise Sauce, 1938. Found in the collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

BRYULLOV, Karl. The Horsewoman
BRYULLOV, Karl Pavlovitch (1799-1852). A Rider. 1832. Portrait of Giovanina and Amacilia Pacini, the Foster Children of Countess Yu. P. Samoilova. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. MOSCOW. Moscow

Beat the Whites with the red wedge (Poster), 1920. Artist: Lissitzky, El (1890-1941)
Beat the Whites with the red wedge (Poster), 1920. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, sculpture by Vera Mukhina, Moscow (b / w photo)
7200710 Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, sculpture by Vera Mukhina, Moscow (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Worker and Kolkhoz Woman)

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1916), 1910s
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1916)

Novoslobodskaya Metro Station, Moscow, Russia, Europe

Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed in Red Square in Moscow, Russia
Famous Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed. This church was built in Moscow on Red Square from 1555 to 1561

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian gun designer
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (born 1919), Russian gun designer, holding the first-ever AK-47 assault rifle, at an official 60th anniversary event, held in 2007 in Moscow, Russia

Kapitsa and Androv, Russian physicists. Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (left, 1894-1984) is listening to a graduate student called Androv (right), who is defending his doctoral thesis

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project poster. 1979 poster celebrating the joint US/Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) that flew in 1975

EVNT2A-00053
Marshal Ney bringing the French rear-guard out of Russia with heavy losses, 1812. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th century painting

Poster advertising a Dance Festival in the USSR
Poster advertising a Dance Festival in Moscow and Leningrad, USSR, 10 to 20 June 1936

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Bolshevik leader, in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, October 1918. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Egypt. Roman period. Fayum mummy portraits. Man. Encaustic painting. Coptic period. End 1st century A.D. Pushkin Museum. Moscow. Russia

View of Tiflis, End 1830s. Artist: Chernetsov, Nikanor Grigoryevich (1805-1879)
View of Tiflis, End 1830s. Found in the collection of State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fyodorovna (1864?1918), Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. Found in the Collection of State Museum Arkhangelskoye Estate, Moscow

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), 1853
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

St. Basils Cathedral in Red Square, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Moscow, Russia, Europe

Tokamak-15 nuclear fusion reactor C013 / 1348
Tokamak-15 nuclear fusion reactor. Nuclear engineer standing on top of the Tokamak-15 (T-15) nuclear fusion reactor at the Kurchatov Institute of Nuclear Power, near Moscow, Russia

Joseph Stalins tomb - Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
Joseph Stalins tomb - Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Russia Date: 2010

1960s Soviet Union poster
" Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!" Early Soviet poster by an unknown artist. Lenin Library, Moscow

Russian boyars, 17th century
Russian boyars, or nobles, during the time of Peter the Great, 1600s-1700s. Antique hand-colored print

St. Basils Christian cathedral in winter snow, Red Square, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Moscow, Russia, Europe

Red Square, St. Basils Cathedral, Lenins Tomb and walls of the Kremlin, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Moscow, Russia, Europe

Russian Revolution 1905 - 1906, The last of the riots in Moscow: Soldiers firing on rioters who had taken refuge in the Prokhorof factory, Presnenskaia District

Inhabitants of Moscow, Russia.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages (1796)

Belgrade - Serbia - Hotel Moscow and the Rossia Insurance Company building. Date: circa 1910s

St. Basils Cathedral on Red Square, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Moscow, Russia, Europe

Interior of metro station, Moscow, Russia, Europe

YAROSHENKO, Nicolai A. (1846-1898). Life is everywhere. 1888. Trainload of criminals exiled to Siberia. Realism. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. Moscow. Tretyakov Gallery

Moscow Kremlin, Russia: Annunciation Cathedral
Moscow, Kremlin, Russia: from left - Annunciation Cathedral and part of the Ascension Cathedral Date: 2010

Tupolev 154 aircraft, Russia
Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft taking off from an airport runway. This aircraft is a jet airliner, designed to carry hundreds of passengers on medium and long-haul flights

Shukhov broadcasting tower
The Shukhov radio tower, Moscow, photographed at night. Also known as the Shabolovka tower, this broadcasting tower was designed by architect Vladimir Shukhov to serve the Russian capital

Ice skating in Red Square, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Moscow, Russia, Europe

Worker and Woman Collective farmer, VDNKh, Moscow, Russia

Matryoschka (russian dolls), Moscow, Russia

Statue of worker and Kolkhoz woman near the Cosmos Hotel and VDNKH in Moscow, Russia, Europe

Chekhovs three Sisters
A scene from the 1940 production of Chekhovs classic play, THREE SISTERS performed by the Moscow Arts Theatre

Napoleon at Moscow
He watches Moscow burn

Christ the Saviour Church, Moscow, Russia

Jet engine turbine nozzle. The nacelle (central peak) of this modified jet engine turbine nozzle is at centre. Jet engine turbines work by drawing in

Moscow, Russia - Entrance to the Ochotni Rjad Station with a statue of a heroic male figure set into a streetside alcove near the entrance

The Stalinist State University building, one of Seven Sisters which are seven Stalinist skyscrapers, Moscow, Russia, Europe

Stalin era building at Kotelnicheskaya embankment, one of the Seven Sisters which are seven Stalinist skyscrapers, Moscow, Russia, Europe

A group of Russian dolls depicting Russian politicians for sale on a stall in the Arbat and Raft Market, Moscow, Russia, Europe

St. Basils Cathedral and Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

Soviet gold bars, stamped with their weight and the hammer-and-sickle symbol of the Soviet Union. The stamp of CCCP is the abbreviation for the Cyrillic form of USSR

The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus (Golenishchev Mathematical Papyrus) Detail: 14th problem, ca 1840BC
The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus (Golenishchev Mathematical Papyrus) Detail: 14th problem, ca 1840 BC. Found in the Collection of State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Portrait of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Found in the Collection of State Central M. Glinka Museum of Music, Moscow

Red Square in Moscow at night
The buildings located on the Red Square: Kremlin wall (at left) and Saint Basils Cathedral (at right), Moscow, Russia. UNESCO World Heritage Site

Eye surgery. Fish-eye lens view of surgeons operating in the Eye Microsurgery Institute, Moscow, in the then Soviet Union, in 1986

Leon Trotsky with his bodyguards, 1919
Leon Trotsky with his bodyguards

Moscow Kremlin and Moskva River Illuminated at Dusk, Russia
View of Moscow Kremlin and the Bolshoy Kamenny bridge over Moskva River illuminated at night, Moscow, Russia

Children under a sunlamp, 1960 C016 / 2693
Phototherapy. Children sitting under a sun lamp. Such lamps have a very bright, broad spectrum output. At the longer wavelength end of the spectrum (red and infrared)

Alexander Yakovlev, aircraft designer
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906-1989), Soviet aircraft designer, in military uniform and holding an aircraft model. In 1932, Yakovlev founded what became the the Yakovlev design bureau

Vostok rocket, Moscow, Russia
Vostok (Russian осток, translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the humanspaceflight programme but later used for other sputnik

Saint Basils Cathedral, Red Square
Moscow, Russia

Concord. The Triple Entente, 1914. Creator: Anonymous
Concord. The Triple Entente, 1914. Found in the Collection of Russian State Historical Library, Moscow

The Siege of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad, 1891. Artist: Vasily Vereshchagin
The Siege of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad, 1891. The Trinity Lavra of St Sergius was founded in Sergiyev Posad (Zagorsk), Russia, in 1345 by St Sergius of Radonezh

The Monument to the Conquerors of Space, Moscow
The Monument to the Conquerors of Space - erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. Date: 1986

L M Korenava as Water in Maeterlinks The Bluebird
L M Korenava as Water in Maurice Maeterlincks The Bluebird directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky (Stanislavski) for his Moscow Ats Theatre Date: circa 1908

The house of architect konstantin melnikov, in 10 krivoarbatsky pereulok, which he designed in the late 1920s, moscow, ussr

Russia, Moscow, painting of Lenin in front of Kremlin
Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky (1884-1939), Lenin (1870-1924) in front of the Kremlin, 1924

Napoleon / Moscow Retreat
The French retreat from Moscow Date: 1812

Igor Golovin, Soviet nuclear physicist
Igor Nikolaevich Golovin (1913-1997), Soviet nuclear physicist. Golovin worked on the Soviet atomic bomb program, and then later did pioneering work on nuclear fusion

St. Basils Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow, Russia

Costume design for the play "Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter" in the Proletcult Theatre, 1922. Found in the collection of the State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

Costume design for the play "Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter" in the Proletcult Theatre, 1922. Found in the collection of the State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

Costume design for the play "Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter" in the Proletcult Theatre, 1922. Found in the collection of the State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

Classroom of a Soviet school, Moscow, 1946 (b / w photo)
7200757 Classroom of a Soviet school, Moscow, 1946 (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Classroom in School no 70, Sverdlov District, Moscow, USSR)

The Red Guard entering the Kremlin, Moscow, on 2 November 1917, 1920s (colour litho)
5232234 The Red Guard entering the Kremlin, Moscow, on 2 November 1917, 1920s (colour litho) by Meshkov, Wassily (1867-1946) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Exterior of St. Basils Cathedral, Red Square, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia, Europe

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Moscow, a city steeped in history and culture, has been the backdrop for countless remarkable moments throughout time. From the enchanting melodies of composer Sergei Rachmaninov resonating through its streets in the early 1900s to Anton Chekhov's profound influence on the Moscow Art Theatre group, this vibrant metropolis has always been a hub of artistic expression. Intriguingly, even renowned US astronomer Carl Sagan found himself captivated by Moscow's allure. As he gazed at a map of the Trans-Siberian Railway produced by J. Bartholomew & Co. , circa 1920, he must have marveled at the vastness and diversity that Russia had to offer. The grandeur is not limited to its cultural heritage alone; it extends to architectural marvels like the iconic Metropole Hotel. Standing tall amidst bustling streets, this historic landmark has witnessed countless stories unfold within its walls. Artistic movements also found their voice in Moscow during tumultuous times. The powerful poster "Beat the Whites with the red wedge" created by El Lissitzky in 1920 encapsulates an era defined by revolutionary fervor and political change. But beyond politics and artistry lies another facet of life in Moscow – leisure and entertainment. A vibrant dance festival advertised through captivating posters brought joyous celebrations to every corner of this city known for embracing festivities. Even ancient artifacts from far-flung lands find their way into Moscow's embrace. Egyptian Roman period Fayum mummy portraits remind us that this city is not bound by time or borders but rather serves as a melting pot where cultures converge. From artistic endeavors to physical prowess, synchronised swimming became an art form practiced passionately within these city limits – showcasing both gracefulness and strength with each synchronized movement beneath crystal-clear waters. As one descends into Komsomolskaya Metro Station's awe-inspiring interior, the architectural beauty of Moscow's underground transport system reveals itself.