• Vera Komissarzhevskaya

    Image Credit: Carl Bulla/Imagno/Austrain Archives, Vienna

    The actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya in 1900.

  • Anna Vyrubova Twilight of the Romanovs

    Image Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

    The book cover, with a photo of grand duchesses Tatiana and Olga and lady-in-waiting Anna Vyrubova, in the Gulf of Finland.

  • Nizhny Novgorod

    Image Credit: Imagno/Austrian Archives, Vienna

    Nizhny Novgorod, the Fair Bridge, now the Kanavinski Bridge, over the Oka, c. 1890 to 1900.

  • Tsar Nicholas II Tsarevich Alexei

    Image Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT

    Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarevich Alexei

  • Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra II

    Image Credit: An album belonging to Anna Vyrubov/Libaray of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

    Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra II on the royal yacht Standard, 1912.

  • Leonid Andreyev

    Image Credit: Andreyev Family Album/Leeds University

    A lunch party in the summer house of dramatist and fiction writer Leonid Andreyev (center back in white suit) in Vammelsuu (Serovo), Gulf of Finland, 1912.

  • Leonid Andreyev Vadim

    Image Credit: Andreyev Family Album/Leeds University

    Vadim, writer Leonid Andreyev’s son, in 1912.

  • Summer idyll

    Image Credit: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C.

    Summer idyll, from the album “Different Views and Studies of the Russian Empire.”

  • A dacha on the water at Materiki

    Image Credit: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C.

    A dacha on the water at Materiki, near Vologda, from the album “Views Along the Mariinsk Canal and River System.”

  • Farm girls carrying berries at Kirillov on the northern Dvina Canal

    Image Credit: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C.

    Farm girls carrying berries at Kirillov on the northern Dvina Canal.

  • Young woman in elaborate traditional dress in front of a Kazakh yurt in Central Asia

    Image Credit: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C.

    Young woman in elaborate traditional dress in front of a Kazakh yurt in Central Asia, shot between 1905-1915, from the album “Views of Central Asia.”

  • Uzbek man and boys

    Image Credit: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs division, Washing D.C., Prokundin-Gorkii Collection

    Uzbek man and boys 1905–15, from the album “Views of Central Asia.”

  • Alim Khan

    Image Credit: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C.

    Alim Khan, the last emir of Bukhara, now part of Uzbekistan, in 1911.

  • Vilnius

    Image Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C, Carpenter Collection

    A Jewish water carrier in Vilnius, 1900.

  • Ural ironworks

    Image Credit: Imagno/Austrian Archives, Vienna

    A postcard image of the Ironworks in Ural, 1910.

  • St Petersburg

    Image Credit: Carl Bulla/Imagno/Ullsteinbild

    St. Petersburg crowds outside the office of the newspaper The New Times, reading the war reports, 1915.

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