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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A Kolkhoz brigade taking a break, USSR, 1931

A kolkhoz brigade taking a break, USSR, 1931. A kolkhoz was a form of collective farm introduced under the policy of collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s. The workforce was organised into units known as brigades. The collectivization programme led to a fall in production and severe famines (exacerbated by droughts) between 1929 and 1932. As many as 12 million peasants lost their lives during the period. Found in the collection of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow

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