russian empire

[Full-length profile portrait of a woman, possibly Turkman or Kirgiz, ...

Borodinskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ. (Na kupoli︠e︡ proboina). Borodino

La Russie Noire ou Polonaise : qui comprend les provinces de la Russie...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes legend titled "Remarques" and 9 bar scales. LC copy annotated in ink, laminated, and mounted on clot... more

[Peter the Great, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

Hubbard Collection. No. 2829-1.

Generalis totius imperii Moscovitici : novissima tabula magnam orbis t...

Relief shown pictorially. Scale determined by using graticule method. Early Homann variant of the map by Ides of 1697. Scales: Milliaria Germanica communia; and Werst. [i.e. Versts] sive milliaria Moscovitica. ... more

Carte de Tartarie.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. 2 copies, copy one annotated with red dots over church symbols. Vault

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

Nova et accuratissima urbis St. Petersburg à Russorum Imperatore Petro...

City map shows individual buildings, gardens, and fence/lot lines. Relief shown by hachures on city map. Notes and index in German. Appears in Seutter's Grosser Atlas worinnen enthalten alle die jenige geograph... more

Plan imperatorskago stolichnago goroda Moskvy.

Scale ca. 1:25,000. Relief shown by hachures and land form drawings. Russian. From the Academy of Sciences' Atlas russicus, 1745. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault... more

Summer and winter habitations in Kamtschatka / Webber del. ; J. Goldar...

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.

The Russian discoveries from the map published by the Imperial Academy...

"Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map and Printseller..." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault

Tabula geographica generalis Imperii Russici ad normam novissimarum ob...

Also shows parts of the Aleutian Islands and Eastern Europe. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Novoĭ plan stolichnago goroda i kri︠e︡posti Sanktpeterburga. Nouveau p...

The European diligence

Print shows a Dutchman rolling a wheelbarrow over Britannia; along for the ride are France represented by a man leaning over the front of the wheelbarrow with a sword ready to stab Britannia, America represente... more

De man in't hembd, of de gefnuikte hoogmoed

Print shows a man in a nightshirt (representing England) being attacked by several men (representing the countries of the armed neutrality league and the allies), he is held by a Swede and a Dane, a Frenchman p... more

Loon na werk 1780

Print shows a large dog (representing England) muzzled and chained being attacked by several men (representing the countries of the armed neutrality league and the allies, a Swede, a Dane, a Frenchman with an u... more

Thomas Jefferson, 1782, Notes on Northern Governments; Holland; Denmar...

Notes on Northern Governments; Holland; Denmark; Sweden; Russia

The [ass]-headed and [cow-heart]-ed ministry making the British [lion]...

Print shows the British lion harnessed on one side of "the pit of ruin" and a spanial (for Spain), a cock (for France), a rattlesnake (for America), and a pug dog (for Holland) harnessed on the other side, pull... more

Novai︠a︡ karta Rossīĭskoĭ Imperīi razdi︠e︡lennai︠a︡ na nami︠e︡stniches...

Thomas Jefferson to Andre Limozin, September 22, 1787, two same date; ...

two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances

Unknown, December 1, 1788, Mexican Expedition to Explore Russian Settl...

Mexican Expedition to Explore Russian Settlements along Pacific Ocean; in Spanish

[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

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

Member of the riding house at Paris, delivering an harangue from the s...

Print shows a member of the new French aristocracy wearing a Phrygian or Liberty cap with circular emblem (Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité) riding on the back of a French citizen; he implores, "Messrs. of the me... more

General Swallow-all-o feasting on a French fricassee!!

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

Karta morskikh otkrytīĭ Rosīĭskimi moreplavateli︠a︡mi na Tikhom i Ledo...

Panoramic view of St. Petersburg, dedicated by permission to his Imper...

Print showing panoramic view of St. Petersburg, including Academy of Arts, colleges, Cronstad (i.e., Kronshtadt), warehouses, and the Gottorp Globe. Title from item. Title also in French. Plate 3 of 4. Includes... more

Thomas Jefferson to Alexander I of Russia, August 29, 1808, Draft

Draft

Thomas Jefferson to Alexander I of Russia, August 29, 1808

Ansicht des Etablissements der R.A. Compagnie in Norfolk-Soundoder Sit...

Russian fort, harbor and ships, Sitka, Alaska.

Tableau des opérations de la Grande Armée depuis l'ouverture de la cam...

Shows the advance of the French Napoleonic forces eastward from Dantzick (Gdańsk, Poland) to Smolensk (Russia) by 21 August 1812. Indicates the French and Russian army troop positions and movements in what is n... more

Le cauchemar Jeu jeu jeune homme, prends ces gou gou gouttes.

Print shows an author lying on a bed being comforted by a friend after being accused of plagiarism by Truth hovering overhead; on the left is a male figure wearing a horned crown labeled "Plagiar[...]; on the l... more

Vid goroda Makao s morskoĭ storony.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[Plan of layout of Russian fort in Alaska, 1803-1806] / Capt'n. Lisian...

Reference copy in LOT 4390-P. Illus. in: Lisiansky. A voyage round the world, ..., London, 1814, pl. II.

Le tigre enchainé

Cartoon showing Napoleon I as a tiger in chains held by a British officer holding a whip; two men representing Russia and Austria play musical instruments nearby. DeVinck, 9800 Forms part of: French Political C... more

Le Cesar de 1815 - je suis venu, j'ai vu, ... j'ai fui

Print shows Napoleon I carrying a broken standard with a dead eagle on top and a piece of paper that states "Vite à Paris"; he is fleeing from a battlefield strewn with dead French soldiers; above, the figure o... more

Vue intérieure d'une partie du Moscou, prise des Hauteurs à droite de ...

Print showing a view of the countryside from along the "Yaousa" River with the city of Moscow in the distance. Title from item.

Vue de la place des boutiques / Cadolle delt. ; lithe. par Deroy.

Print showing a view across a plaza with carriages and pedestrians at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Title from item.

Feodor Nikititsch Romanow s. Philaret Mosquens et omn. Russiar, Patria...

Print shows Fedor Nikitich Romanov, Filaret, Patriarch of Russia, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, in medallion on pedestal with nameplate. He was the father of Michael (Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov),... more

John Randolph of Roanoke on his embarkation for Russia onboard ship "C...

Full-length silhouette portrait shows the Virginia politician John Randolph facing left. He is dressed in a coat with tails, boots with spurs and carries a thin cane. He served as U.S. Minister to Russia in 183... more

Fête donner à la grande duchesse Hélène de russie par W.R. Chateaubria...

Drawing shows a crowd gathered around a balloon on the ground at the festivities prepared by Ambassador W.R. Chateaubriant in honor of the Grand Duchess of Russia in Rome, 1830. A second balloon is in sky at up... more

Die Letzten Zehn vom vierten Regiment

"The last ten men from the Fourth Regiment" of Polish insurgents, who were killed by Russians at Battle of Ostrolenka, Poland, 1831. Reference copy may be in LOT 7005. This record contains unverified, old data ... more

Siberian village

Print shows a view of a town or village in Siberia surrounded by a wooden wall, with a buddhist temple in the background. Title devised by Library staff. Stamped in lower left: From the file of James F. Queen a... more

Siberian town from across a river

Print shows a distant view from across a river of a town in Siberia with a large church or monastery at center, in the background. Title devised by Library staff. Stamped in lower left: From the file of James F... more

Siberia

Print shows a distant view from an elevated vantage point of a town in Siberia with a large church or monastery in the background. Title from item. Inscribed in pencil at bottom center: "Siberia." Stamped in lo... more

Rats quitting the ship

Postmaster general Amos Kendall's 1840 resignation prompted the artist's speculation on the desertion of other Van Buren cabinet members. Kendall resigned on May 16, to concentrate on editing the "Extra Globe,"... more

Veduta di Ross stabilimento Russo vicino alla Bodega

Fort Ross, Calif., a Russian fur-trading post est. 1812.

Vue du Kremlin à Moscou / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Bougeard imp. ; H...

View of the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. Illus. in: Excursions Daguerriennes. Paris: Rittner et Goupil, etc., 1842, plate 53. Print based on daguerreotype by N. P. Lerebours.

Eglise de Vassili Blagennoï à Moscou / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Imp....

View of St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia. Illus. in: Excursions Daguerriennes. Paris: Rittner et Goupil, etc., 1842, plate 52. Print based on daguerreotype by N. P. Lerebours.

Karta Ledovitago mori︠a︡ i Vostochnago okeana /

Depths shown by soundings in coastal waters. Also covers Russian Far East and Alaska. In Russian. Greenwich, Paris, and Petersburg meridians; Greenwich degrees numbered westward to 240⁰. Available also through ... 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

Plan stolichnago goroda Pekina s okrestnostīi︠u︡ /

Defense of the California Bank

A mildly jingoistic satire voicing American suspicions of foreign designs on California after the discovery of gold there in 1848. The bay and coastline of San Francisco are shown, menaced by foreign invaders ... more

Merkatorskai︠a︡ karta Proliva Kuprei︠a︡nova : nakhodi︠a︡shchagosi︠a︡ m...

Depths shown by soundings. Ms. in black and red inks with blue wash on tracing linen. Traced names in Russian. Names added in red ink in English. Handwritten in ink at bottom: March 1891. Received this from Lie... more

Bankoku sankai tsuran bunzu

Japanese print shows a map of the world with sailing ships on the seas and American and Russian soldiers. Title from item. Typewritten annotation on back mount: A table of mileage from Nagasaki to various parts... more

Map of the coast of China

Shows coast from Siberia to Macau. Shows coastal cities only. Title supplied by cataloger. LC copy annotated in pencil showing distances. Mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web sit... more

The Admiralty / Aubry.

Government building with arch in center, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Catherine II Empress of Russia portrait / engraved for the Eclectic by...

Catherine II, Empress of Russia, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, next to throne.

[Napoleon I, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Fig. 1 Grand promenade in Elysian Fields, Paris; fig. 2 Festival (rel...

Illus. in: Heck, Iconographic Encyclopedia, (1851) v. 1, plate 7. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rites & cere.; Gt. Brit.; Russia; France; Shelf.

Orenburgskii general gubernator i komanduiushchii voiskami orenbur. ko...

Photograph shows half-length portrait of General Adjutant Count Vasiliĭ Alekseevich Perovskiĭ in uniform with cape, holding sword. Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' istoricheskaia, 1871-1872, part 4, pl. ... more

One of the people's saints for the calendar of liberty 1852

The artist registers the widespread American sympathy with certain revolutionary movements in Europe. More specifically, the print extols Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot who led an 1848 revolt against the... more

Battle of Hermannstadt / sketched by Capt. Ed. Scheifele ; drawn on st...

Print showing a battle scene with Russian, Austrian, and Hungarian troops standing in formation, shooting at each other across an open field. Title from item. Caption continues: Where the Hungarians (March 11th... more

Karta I︠A︡kutskoĭ oblasti chasti Olekminskago okruga i Irkutskoĭ guber...

Shows gold-mining concessions along rivers in the Olekminsk region, Siberia, Russia. "Sostavlena 1853 godu." In Russian. India ink and col. inks. Sectioned to 12 panels and mounted on cloth backing. Available a... more

Histoire de la Sainte Russie

Page with 3 illustrations showing darkness, sketchy lines representing the beginning of Russian history, and polar bears illustrating that nothing of interest was occurring at that time; also includes quotes by... more

L'Affaire d'orient 1854. 20, Balaklava. Charge heroique des Hussards A...

Print shows a vastly outnumbered British Light Brigade cavalry engaging Russian soldiers at the artillery battery at the end of the valley during the disasterous charge of Light Brigade at Balaklava, Ukraine, d... more

Histoire de la Sainte Russie

Page with 5 illustrations showing Péroun and priests. Illus. in: Histoire pittoresque, dramatique et caricaturale de la Sainte Russie ..., p. 9. Title from item.

Ismail Pacha on horseback, with Turkish officers

Ismail Pacha (General Kmety), full-length portrait, seated on horse, facing left, with three attendants in the foreground and one in the background. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Ea... more

Sergeant of British Light Infantry

Full-length portrait of soldier facing slightly right. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Nubian servants & horses

Two men, full-length portraits, facing front, standing with horses. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purchase; Franc... more

Colonel Airey & Major Hallewell

Two officers, one standing by horse, the other reclining on ground, with two attendants nearby. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograp... more

Captain George, 4th Light Dragoons & servant

Captain George, full-length portrait, seated before a tent, with his servant standing to the left. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photog... more

Lieutenant General Sir George Brown, G.C.B., K.H.

Sir George Brown, three-quarter portrait, seated facing left. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House Roger Fenton Series. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roge... more

The valley of the shadow of death - caves in the Woronzoff Road behind...

Print shows bird's-eye view of the landscape along the Woronzoff Road with cannon balls lining the roadside, also shows the entrance to a valley and, in the foreground, soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a ... more

[Kamara Heights in the distance, artillery waggons in the foreground]

View of plateau of Sevastopolʹ showing rows of caissons, with tents on the plains in the background. Title from 1855 exhibition catalog. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton, photographer of the 1850s. Purchase; ... more

Captain Heneage, Coldstream Guards

Captain Heneage, full-length portrait, facing foward, standing next to a horse in front of a small building. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean ... more

The honourable Major Cathcart, Dep. As. Adj. Gen. to the Light Divisio...

Hon. Augustus Murray Cathcart, three-quarter length portrait, facing right, seated, hands resting on his sword. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crime... more

Mr. Thompson, Commissariat

Mr. Thompson, full-length portrait, facing left, wearing uniform, seated on a horse; horse's reins are held by a servant; a conical tent in background. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton;... more

Captain King, horse artillery

Captain King, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, standing in front of horse with wooden hut in the background.

Lieutenant Gayner [i.e., Gaynor], 47th Regiment

Lieutenant Gaynor, full-length portrait, facing right, wearing uniform, seated on large rock, holding sword.

Quartermaster Hill, 4[th] Light Dragoons, the horse taken immediately ...

Quartermaster Hill, seated on horse, facing left. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944... more

Major Burton, 5th Dragoon Guards

Adolphus Burton, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, seated on a horse. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purchase... more

Russian Sailors ?

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Group, N.Y. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans;... more

Captain Bathurst, Grenadier Guards

Captain Bathurst, full-length portrait, dressed in uniform, standing next to a horse with other horses and buildings in the background.

Captain Croker, 17th Regiment

Captain Croker, standing next to a horse, facing left, with servant facing him. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Russian Adm. Adm. Lisovski

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in ink: Russian Admiral. See Harper's Weekly Oct 17, 1863, p. 657-658. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of ... more

Prince Woronzoff's palace - near Yalta on the south coast of the Crime...

Print shows a large warship off the coast of Crimea with a distant view of Prince Voront︠s︡ov's palace, Alupka. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most graci... more

The Monastery of St. George and Cape Fiolente - looking west / W. Simp...

Print shows the Monastery of St. George on the cliffs above Cape Fiolente, with view of the coastline.

The Monastery of St. George and Cape Fiolente, looking west / W. Simps...

Monastery of St. George on cliffs above Cape Fiolente.

A quiet day in the diamond battery - portrait of a Lancaster 68 pounde...

Print shows a large Lancaster cannon in a British artillery battery. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson. Fi... more

James J.M. Wardrop, Esqr. Grenadier Guards

James J.M. Wardrop, full-length portrait, seated on gabion, facing slightly right. Title transcribed from verso. Photo marked for cropping with vertical line on the left. "231" written or printed to the left of... more

Captain Wilkinson, 9th Regiment

Captain Wilkinson, full-length portrait, seated on horseback, facing slightly left.

Embarkation of the sick at Balaklava / W. Simpson delt. ; E. Morin lit...

Print shows the embarkation of sick persons at the harbor in Balaklava. Title from item. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson.... more

Field Marshall Lord Raglan

Lord Raglan, full-length portrait, seated on chair in doorway, facing slightly right, holding hat. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contempora... more

Colonel Wilbraham

Colonel Wilbraham, full-length portrait, seated with sword and binoculars, facing left. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

View from the heights above Balaklava, looking towards Sebastopol, she...

Print shows a panoramic view of the landscape between the heights above Balaklava and Sevastopolʹ, including the battlefields at Balaklava and Inkerman, also, on the far left, is the inlet to the harbor at Bala... more

Major Tinley, & officers of the 39th regiment

Five officers, two mounted on horses, three standing, full-length portrait, facing front.

Lieutenant Colonel Munro & officers of the 39th Regiment

Lieutenant Colonel William Munro and officers, dressed in uniform, posed before huts. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

General Garrett's quarters & tents of the 4th Division

General Garrett's encampment with bell tents and huts. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton, photographer of the 1850s. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton... more

Ismail Pacha & Mr. Thompson of the Commissariat

Ismail Pacha (Hungarian general Kmety), and Mr. Thompson, seated on gabions; three attendants, one holding a horse, standing behind them. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House... more