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1575 city plan of Moscow, Russia

Early 1800s Moscow by Fedor Alekseyev.

Celebration for the Coronation of Tsar Nicolas II. Arrival of the Cortege in Red Square, from Le Petit Journal, 31st May 1896 (coloured engraving) by Henri Meyer.

Early 1800s Moscow by Fedor Alekseyev.

Early 1800s Moscow by Fedor Alekseyev.

Early 1900s Moscow, Russia

Early 1800s Moscow by Fedor Alekseyev.

Early 1800s Moscow by Fedor Alekseyev.

Early 1800s Moscow by Fedor Alekseyev

1801 Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow by Fedor Alekseyev

Early 1800s Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow by Fedor Alekseyev.

Pre-Mud Flood Railway in Siberia, Russia.

Pre-Mud Flood Railway in Siberia, Russia.

One of the first moving pictures filmed in the Soviet Union by a foreigner, Soviet Russia Through the Eyes of an American was filmed by Charles Edward Stuart, an internationally recognized American mining engineer engaged by the Soviets under their first five-year plan. The film is a travelogue...

1880-89. Irkutsk. Siberia. Technical school.

In January 1932, the Monument Protection Department signed a verdict on the cathedral, rejecting the proposal to turn it into a museum, and agreeing to demolish it as a building of no historical or artistic value. An attempt to disassemble the cathedral into building material was unsuccessful...

1911 Irkutsk. Siberia. Imperial Museum of the Geographical Society.

Mansion of the Tartar merchant, Karym Khamitov (1894), which is now being converted into a cultural center for the region's Tartar population, Tomsk, Russia

1900-04 Tomsk. Siberia. Koroleff Theater.

1904-14 Tomsk. Siberia. Chapel of St. Theodore of Tomsk.