Images Dated 2010 February

Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia, 1865

Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia, 1865. Grand Duke Nicholas (1859-1919) was the eldest son of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich, the fourth son of Tsar Nicholas I. He was a cousin of Tsar Alexander III. Nicholas was murdered, together with his brother, George, and their cousins, Grand Dukes Paul and Dimitri, by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

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Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia with his wife and one of their sons, 1860

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia with his wife and one of their sons, 1860. Grand Duke Konstantin (1827-1892) was the second son of Tsar Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. He married Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830-1911) in 1848. Their eldest son, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich (1850-1918), was disgraced and banished to what is now Uzbekistan after becoming involved in a plot against his family. He settled in Tashkent, where he became a popular figure and worked as an engineer and irrigator, constructing canals. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

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The signing ceremony of the Belgrade Declaration, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 2 July 1955

The signing ceremony of the Belgrade Declaration, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 2 July 1955. The signing of the Declaration by Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) brought about a reconciliation between the two communist states after the rift caused by the Tito-Stalin split of 1948. Relations between the two countries would deteriorate again the following year after the Hungarian Uprising. Tito is on the far left of the photograph, with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin (1895-1975) next to him. Khrushchev is second from the right. Found in the collection of the Museum of Yugoslavian History, Belgrade

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