russian empire

[Passage, in Russian, from A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (17...

Illus. in: A.N. Radischev, A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790). Reference copy may be available in SSF - Press 1776. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings... More

Frederick William - L'enjambee imperiale

Print shows Catherine II, Empress of Russia, bare-breasted, holding a scepter and sphere, taking a large step from a piece of land on the right labeled "Russie" to a crescent moon atop a steeple or minaret labe... More

Lady Moscow - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: S.B. Jones (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3648

Church at Thingvalla Iceland

Drawing shows a small clapboard church surrounded by a stone wall at the edge of an Icelandic village, Thingvalla. Taylor visited Iceland in 1862, perhaps en route to Russia. Gift; Charles F. Heartman; 1922; (D... More

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Gorodskaia bol'nitsa dlia tuzemtsev

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 146.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shak...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 53.

Zhenskie obychai u Tadzhikov. Zhenskii vtornik, Bibi-Seshambe

Photograph shows a group of young women sitting outdoors on a rug on which food is spread. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 74.

17th Bat. quickstep

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The hoaxer hoaxed / J.A. Wales.

Print shows New York Herald editor James Gordon Bennett, holding a shotgun and carrying a bag labeled "Game Bag for Sensations J.G. Bennett", standing next to a scarecrow labeled "$500.00 Herald Cheque" and "Th... More

[Byzantine house, Russian house, Arab house, and Japanese house in His...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Petersbourg. Palais d'Hiver, côte de la Newa

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Russia. Petersburg. The Winter Palace on the Newa." Print no. "8812. P.Z." Title is also in Rus... More

[The Lavra gate, Kiev, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8968". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

[Rue Richelieu, Odessa, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8889". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

[Admiralty and War Offices, St. Petersburg, Russia]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8895". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

[From the road to the fortress, Tiflis, Russia, (i.e., Tbilisi, Georgi...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8873". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

St. Pétersbourg. Le Monastère Ssmolny view, photochrome print postcard...

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Russia. Petersburg. Somolny Monastery." Print no. "8919. P.Z." Title is also in Russian on item... More

[The gulf, Sebastopol, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8885". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

[On the Dnieper, Kiev, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8986". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

Set of paintings of Christ's passion, by Kosheleff, in Russian Hospice...

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Set of paintings of Christ's Passion, by Kosheleff, in Russian Hospice...

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Putting his foot down

Uncle Sam stands on map of China which is being cut up by German, Italy, England, Russia, and France (Austria is in backgr. sharpening shears); Uncle Sam clutches "Trade Treaty with China" and says: "Gentleman,... More

Russian troops at R.R. station

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Mr. and Mrs. Julian Eltinge

Julian Eltinge and a woman identified as his wife, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, standing on the deck of the S.S. Siberia at dock in Yokohama-shi, Japan. Title from news agency caption on item. C... More

Bubbles / Kep.

Illustration shows the Russian bear blowing soap bubbles labeled "Promises" through a meerschaum pipe with a Chinese face, using liquid from a bowl labeled "Manchurian soft soap". Illus. in: Puck, v. 54, no. 1... More

Sudokhodnai︠a︡ distant︠s︡īi︠a︡ na r. Kuri︠e︡ v Petropavlovskom. Dok. [...

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Mazar na gori︠e︡ u Shakh-Zinde. Samarkand

Man seated in grasses next to an ornate mausoleum.

The Russian crown / Hassman̄.

Illustration shows a crown in the shape of a human skull against a background of blood dripping into the title area at the bottom. Illus. in: Puck, v. 58, no. 1504 (1905 December 27), cover. Copyright 1905 by ... More

Greetings from Portsmouth, N.H. -- Gov. Benning Wentworth mansion. Bui...

No. 223. Postcard sent by newspaper correspondent Edmund Noble to his daughter, Lilly. Text reads: Aug. 17, 1905. Hotel Wentworth, New Hampshire. Dear Lilly, There's fine weather again after the rain. It is sa... More

Prokudin Gorskii: Ėti︠u︡d di︠e︡vushki. Color separation negative

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Uncle Sam: "Them fellers over there want to disarm but none of 'em das...

In the background, Uncle Sam with a rifle in hand, sits on a hill labeled "U.S." He looks over a body of water at Kaiser Wilhelm II, John Bull, and three other unidentified male figures representing France, Ru... More

S. Peterburgʺ. Varshavskīĭ vokzalʺ St.-Pétersbourg. La gare de Varsovi...

Print shows the Warsaw railway station and Church of the Resurrection of Christ along the Obvodny Canal in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Vozdukhi. Dar T︠S︡ari︠a︡ Borisa Godunova. V riznit︠s︡i︠e︡ Ipatʹe. mon....

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Shop window showing bullet hole, riots of July 1917, Petrograd (St. Pe...

Tobacco shop window. J228390 U.S. Copyright Office. No copyright restriction per Photoduplication Service.

Celebrating Rus. [i.e. Russian] Revolution, Vladivostock

Photograph showing residents of Vladivostok celebrating the Russian Revolution. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Czar and Family

Photograph shows members of the Romanovs, the last royal family of Russia who, after the February revolution of 1917 were sent into internal exile in Tobolsk. Standing (left to right) are Marie and Queen Alexan... More

Russian prisoners, Skiernewice

Photograph shows Russian prisoners in Skierniewice, Poland during World War I.

Russian Service in Suwalki Hospital

Photograph shows a priest holding a Russian Orthodox service in a hospital in Suwalki, Russia (now Poland) during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Se... More

Moscow River and the Kremlin in winter, Moscow, Russia

Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 18160. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Russia Moscow Kremlin; Russia Moscow Markets; Markets; Musicians.

Russian soldiers on the march

J238539 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 18169. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Russia Hist. 1919; Shelf.

Czarewitch

Photograph shows Alexei Nikolaevich (1904-1918), the heir apparent to the throne of the Russian Empire. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Shepherd on a Jewish collective farm in th Crimea, USSR (Union of Sovi...

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The real trouble will come with the "wake"

Cartoon showing animals representing the international force that put an end to the Boxer Rebellion in China and re-established their own economic influence. Shown hovering over the Chinese Dragon are the Russi... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Vykhod iz mecheti Gur-Ėmir. Samarkand, color ...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 93.... More

Group of sailors, Russian navy

Photo shows sailors on the Russian cruiser Rynda, during the Columbian Naval Review, 1893. (Source: Charley Seavey, 2013)

Studenty v Mudaris. Samarkand

Nine men with books seated around carpet, in courtyard of a mosque.

[Japanese sailor, with his bare hands, is fighting with two Russian ba...

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Detalʹ Troit︠s︡kago sobora. Kostroma

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Flowery steppes between Barnaoul [i.e., Barnaul] and Tomsk

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1...

A print based on David Gilmour Blythe's fanciful painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. Contrary to the title, the proclamation was issued in 1862 and went into effect in January 1863. In a ... More

[Emir Bukharskii. Bukhara]

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara, seated holding sword.

Ėti︠u︡d na r. Ustʹe bliz Borisogli︠e︡bska

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Syr-Dar'inskaia oblast'. Kibitka zhilishche Kirgiza

Photograph shows a kibitka dwelling of Kyrgyz. Includes four people, a horse, sheep and camel around tent. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' étnograficheskaia︢: ..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 34.

Group of Montenegrins

Five Montenegrins posed against a tile-roofed structure; one sits in a window.

V gorakh Dagestana

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Plan stolichnago goroda Sanktpeterburga c izobrazhenïem znashni︠e︡ĭshi...

Plan stolichnago goroda Sanktpeterburga c izobrazhenïem znashni︠e︡ĭshi...

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Rock of Ages Lighthouse, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County, MI

Significance: Situated five miles off the northwest tip of Isle Royale in Lake Superior, Rock of Ages Lighthouse stands as one of the tallest and most powerful beacons on the Great Lakes. The steel frame and b... More

Tipy Dagestana

Sunni Muslim man wearing traditional dress and headgear, with a sheathed dagger at his side.

Na zhnitvi︠e︡. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

Family(?) sitting in front of hay stacks in a hay field.

Sozvi︠e︡zdīi︠a︡ predstavlennyi︠a︡ na XXX tabilt︠s︡akh s opisanīem onyk...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes an engraved title page for the plates, two engraved section titles, one showing stellar magnitude, and thirty celestial charts... More

Tipy narodnosteĭ Sredneĭ Azīi.

Photographs show portraits of men and women from Central Asia.

Tipy narodnosteĭ Sredneĭ Azīi.

Photographs show portraits of men and women from Central Asia.

Souvenir Program The Firebird

Souvenir program for the premiere of The Firebird, June 1910. Contains set and costume designs for The Firebird; set designs for Giselle and Schéhérazade; program information for Le Carnaval; The Firebird; and ... More

Izobrazhenie preslavnoi batalii...

View of the famous battle between the Russian and the Swedish armies, the Russian troops under the distinguished command of His Imperial Majesty Peter the First of all the Russians, the Swedish under His Royal ... More

General Swallow-all-o feasting on a French fricassee!!, British Cartoo...

Print shows a gigantic Russian soldier, possibly a gross caricature of Field Marshal Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Suvorov, eating the severed head of a French soldier, another oversized man, a chef, holds a platter co... More

Ultimatum on the Oregon question

In his typically jingoist view of Polk's handling of the Oregon question, the artist Edward Williams Clay belittles the self-interested attitudes of Europe toward the dispute. The issue of whether to settle the... More

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kassima [sic] ibni Abassa...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 27.

[Full page of advertisements and a political cartoon "Preparing for th...

[Four people on troika, in snow, Russia] - Frank G. Carpenter collecti...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. No. 29.

[Fish and vegetable market, Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany (i.e., K...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "8392". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[Richelieu Stair, Odessa, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8935". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

[Panorama by the quay, Riga, Russia, (i.e., Latvia)]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8834". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites primarily in Poland,... More

Moscou. La Porte Krutitzki view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Russia. Moscow. Krutitzki Gate." Print no. "8914. P.Z." Title is also in Russian on item. Purch... More

Ship's company, Russian navy

Photo shows sailors on the Russian cruiser Rynda, during the Columbian Naval Review, 1893. (Source: Charley Seavey, 2013)

Khabarovsk (?) - convicts marching under guard; church in background

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Khabarovsk - sledge with troika outside posthouse

Similar to photograph in Lot 11948 from negative LC-USZ62-78777. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library... More

The quarrelsome European nursery / Dalrymple.

Print shows a large group of children in a nursery fighting amongst themselves, they are labeled "England" and "Russia", "Austria" and "Italy", "Greece" and "Turkey", "France" and "Germany" fighting over a chil... More

Ready for business / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows a scene in a courtroom with a Chinese man labeled "Chinese Question" sitting in a chair in front of three men identified as "France", "Germany" (William II), and "Russia". "Judge" John Bull is stand... More

A tempting opportunity / Keppler.

Print shows the British Lion attempting to put out the flames of a campfire labeled "South African War"; in the background are two figures labeled "Russia" and "France", holding large pincers, who are pondering... More

Second-hand shops, St. Petersburg

Merchants with wares along hallway. 3105 U.S. Copyright Office. "Sold only by agents of the Universal Photo Art Co." No. 7113.

Czar at 18, in uniform, Bergamasco / Bergamasco

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[Famous religious paintings. The Angel at the Tomb by Verestchaguine, ...

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Chaliapin, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Czarina

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The Nevski Prospect, the main thoroughfare of St. Petersburg, Russia

Traffic on street. H12181 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4722. Public domain image of 19th-century Saint Petersburg, Russia, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The vacant plate / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows the British Lion, the Russian Bear, a cat labeled Austria, and three dogs labeled "France, Italy, [and] Germany" gathered around a table for Thanksgiving dinner. The British Lion is holding a... More

New Years, Chinatown, Port Arthur Chinese Restaurant, New York

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A voice from the past / Frank A. Nankivell.

Illustration shows the ghost of Louis XVI of France warning Nicholas II of Russia to not make a hasty decision regarding the imprisoned writer Maxim Gorky and to heed the "Petition" and impassioned pleas for hi... More

Muganʹ. Obshch. vid Petropavlovskago (i r. Kury s si︠e︡v.-zap.)

Dvoret︠s︡ Velikago Kni︠a︡zi︠a︡ Nikolai︠a︡ Konstantinovicha na beregu S...

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[Leo N. Tolstoi in Iasnaia Poliana] / D'après nature S. M. Prokoudine-...

Photomechanical print shows Tolstoy sitting outdoors at his home, Yasnaya Polyana, in Tulʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia. Title devised by Library staff based on translation of title of photomechanical print from the ... More

Maxim Gorky, seated with heavy coat on

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Czarina and Czarewitsch

Photo shows Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova (1872-1918), Empress consort of Russia and spouse of Nicholas II, with her son Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904-1918). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Russian regiment Church, Warsaw

Photograph shows the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Michael the Archangel on 12 Ujazdowskie Ave., Warsaw, Poland. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and similar image in the National Photo Company collection... More

Prokudin Gorskii: Li︠e︡s. Color separation negative

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Sklad provīanta Kusvinskago zavoda

Czar, King George

Photo shows Czar Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1918) and King George V of Great Britain (1865-1936). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

[Railroad station, Trans-Siberian Railroad, Russia]

J228336 U.S. Copyright Office.

Russian peasants, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Russian peasant women and men standing outside a brick building, probably during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service o... More

Russian Cossacks

Photograph shows Russian cossacks during World War I.