Sergei Collection

Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer, pianist and conductor, Ivanovka, Russia, 1913. Rachmaninov (1873-1943) with his daughter Irina and pet dog

Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian, Russian composers, 1945. Prokofiev (1891-1953), Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Khachaturian (1903-1978)

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and rocket engineer Sergey Korolyov, 1961. Pictured at Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR. Korolyov (1907-1966)

Ballets Russes in Seville, Spain, 1916. The Ballets Russes was a famous itinerant ballet company founded by Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) in Paris in 1909

Empress Eugenie, ca. 1864. Creator: Sergei Levitsky
Empress Eugenie, ca. 1864

Poster for the film October, 1927. Artist: Georgy Stenberg
Poster for the film October, 1927. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Grippenberg, c1893. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Grippenberg, c1893. Oskar-Ferdinand Kazimirovich Gripenberg (1838-1916), general of the Russian Imperial Army. From the 2e collection [Felix Potin, c1893]

Kouropatkine, c1893. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Kouropatkine, c1893. Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin (1848-1925), Russian Imperial Minister of War from 1898 to 1904. From the 2e collection [Felix Potin, c1893]

Alexeieff, c1893. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Alexeieff, c1893. Yevgeni Ivanovich Alexeieff, (1843-1917), admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, Russian Viceroy in the Far East. From the 2e collection [Felix Potin, c1893]

Military Campaign of the Russians in the 16th century, 1903. Artist: Sergei Ivanov
Military Campaign of the Russians in the 16th century, 1903. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Count Paul Andreyevich Shuvalov, Russian soldier and statesman, c1860s-c1870s. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Count Paul Andreyevich Shuvalov, Russian soldier and statesman, c1860s-c1870s. Shuvalov (1830-1908) served with distiction in the Crimean War

Uprising on the battleship Potemkin, Constanta, Romania, 1905. The Potemkin was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navys Black Sea Fleet

Russian rocket engineer Sergey Korolyov with cosmonauts, Crimea, USSR, c1960. Korolyov (1907-1966) was the leading Soviet rocket engineer

Russian conductor Alexander Siloti and composer Sergei Rachmaninov, early 20th century. Siloti (1863-1945) was Rachmaninovs first cousin

Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin with composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninov, c1890. Chaliapin (1873-1938) had a powerful bass voice

Alexander Herzen, Russian writer and thinker, 1861. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Alexander Herzen, Russian writer and thinker, 1861. Herzen (1812-1870) is regarded as the father of Russian socialism. His philosophy

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia as child, c1871. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia as child, c1871. Nicholas (1868-1918) with his mother, Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna. Nicholas succeeded his father, Alexander III, as Emperor of Russia in 1894

Russian author Leo Tolstoy with guests, Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula, Russia, 1895. Artist: Sophia Tolstaya
Russian author Leo Tolstoy with guests, Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula, Russia, 1895. Second from right is the composer Sergei Taneyev. Yasnaya Polyana was Tolstoys (1828-1900) home

Hide and Seek, 1893. Artist: Sergei Gribkov
Hide and Seek, 1893. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Menu of the feast meal to celebrate of the 300th Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty, 1913. Artist: Sergei Yaguzhinsky
Menu of the feast meal to celebrate of the 300th Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty, 1913. With portraits of the first and last emperors of the dynasty

Alexander Winterberger, pianist and organist, 19th century. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Alexander Winterberger, pianist and organist, 19th century. Winterberger (1834-1914) was a pupil of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt

Konstantin Balmont, Sergei Poliakov and Modest Durnov, Russian poets, 1904
Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942), Sergei Poliakov and Modest Durnov, Russian poets, 1904. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet, 1910s. Yesenin (1895-1925), one of the most popular Russian poets of the 20th century, was a member of the Imaginists

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary and theorist of anarchism, 1863. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary and theorist of anarchism, 1863. Bakunin (1814-1876) was the leading proponent of the doctrine of Collectivist Anarchism

Count Sergei Sheremetev and Countess Ekaterina Sheremeteva and family, 1870s. Count Sergei Dmitrievich Sheremetev (1844-1918) married Princess Ekaterina Vyzemskaya (1849-1929) in 1868

The Massacre, 1905. Artist: Sergei Ivanov
The Massacre, 1905. January 9th 1905, Bloody Sunday massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905

Shrovetide, 1905. Artist: Sergei Ivanov
Shrovetide, 1905. Found in the collection of the Regional A and V Vasnetsov Art Museum, Kirov, Russia

Sergei Bondarchuk, Russian film director, 1964. Bondarchuk (1920-1994) during the shooting of War and Peace. His adaptation of Tolstoys novel took seven years to complete

Grand Dukes Alexander Alexandrovich and Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, c1870-c1875(?). Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Grand Dukes Alexander Alexandrovich and Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, c1870-c1875(?). The future Tsar Alexander III (1845-1894) (top right) with his younger brother

Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, late 19th century. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, late 19th century. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) wrote music across a broad range of genres

Sergei Aksakov, Russian author, 1850s. Artist: Karl August Bergner
Sergei Aksakov, Russian author, 1850s. Found in the collection of the State Museum of AS Pushkin, Moscow

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian-American composer, pianist, and conductor

Stroganov Palace, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Stroganov Palace, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. This late Baroque palace was built in 1753-1754 for Baron Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov. The architect was Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli

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