Images Dated 17th May 2018 (page 42)

Mineral water spring no 4 (old), Yessentuki, Russia, 1900s. Situated in the northern Caucasus, Yessentuki has been a popular spa resort since the 19th century due to the properties of the mineral

Mineral water spring no 18, Yessentuki, Russia, 1900s. Situated in the northern Caucasus, Yessentuki has been a popular spa resort since the 19th century due to the properties of the mineral water

Production of mineral water cake, Yessentuki, Russia, 1900s. Situated in the northern Caucasus, Yessentuki has been a popular spa resort since the 19th century due to the properties of the mineral

The Clinic of Balneotherapy, Yessentuki, Russia, 1915. Situated in the northern Caucasus, Yessentuki has been a popular spa resort since the 19th century due to the properties of the mineral water

Interior view of the Clinic of Balneotherapy, Mineralnye Vody, Russia, 1910s. Mineralnye Vody is one of several spa resorts in the northern Caucasus

Railway Station Square, Yessentuki, Russia, 1900s. Situated in the northern Caucasus, Yessentuki has been a popular spa resort since the 19th century due to the properties of the mineral water

Pyatigorsk Street and a hotel, Yessentuki, Russia, 1900s. Situated in the northern Caucasus, Yessentuki has been a popular spa resort since the 19th century due to the properties of the mineral water

Mineral water spring, Yessentuki, Russia, 1900s. Situated in the northern Caucasus, Yessentuki has been a popular spa resort since the 19th century due to the properties of the mineral water

Hotel, Yessentuki, Russia, 1900s. Situated in the northern Caucasus, Yessentuki has been a popular spa resort since the 19th century due to the properties of the mineral water from nearby springs

Mountain near Kislovodsk, Russia, c1895. Kislovodsk is a spa town in the northern Caucasus. In the late 19th and early 20th century it was a popular destination for artistic figures

Waterfall near Kislovodsk, Russia, c1895. Kislovodsk is a spa town in the northern Caucasus. In the late 19th and early 20th century it was a popular destination for artistic figures

View of Pyatigorsk, Russia, 1895. Pyatigorsk is a city in the northern Caucasus. It has been a spa resort since the early 19th century. From a private collection

Police photograph of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, 1898. Trotsky (1879-1940) became involved in revolutionary activities in 1896

Virginia Woolf, British author, 1930s(?). A novelist, essayist and critic, Virginia Woolf (nee Stephen) (1882-1941) was a leading figure in London literary circles

Osip Mandelstam, Korney Chukovsky, Benedikt Livshits and Yury Annenkov, 1914. Artist: Karl Karlovich Bulla
Osip Mandelstam, Korney Chukovsky, Benedikt Livshits and Yury Annenkov, 1914. Mandelstam (1891-1938), Chukovsky (1882-1969) and Livshits (1887-1938) were Russian poets

Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin at a radio recording in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, 1919. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Moscow, Russia, February 1900. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as a student, Samara, Russia, 1890. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1903

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as a grammar school pupil, Simbirsk, Russia, 1879
Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as grammar school pupil, Simbirsk, Russia, 1887. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1903

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader, aged 4, with his sister Olga, 1874. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Virginia Woolf, British author, 1902. Artist: George Charles Beresford
Virginia Woolf, British author, 1902. A novelist, essayist and critic, Virginia Woolf (nee Stephen) (1882-1941) was a leading figure in London literary circles

Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russia, 1922. Lenin (1870-1924) and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939)

Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya, Gorki, USSR, 1922. Lenin (1870-1924) and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) married in 1898 when they were both living in exile in Siberia

Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna visiting the Iberian Chapel, Moscow, Russia, 1900s. The chapel stands in front of the Iberian Gate, the entrance to the Kitai-gorod

Pilgrims, Solovetsky Monastery, Russia, 1904. Artist: Maxim Dmitriev
Pilgrims, Solovetsky Monastery, Russia, 1904. Situated on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea in northern Russia, Solovetsky Monastery was founded in 1429

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna of Russia, 1910s. Artist: Karl August Fischer
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna of Russia, 1910s. A German princess of the House of Hesse, Elizabeth Fyodorovna (1864-1918) was an older sister of Tsarina Alexandra

Makarios, Archbishop of the St Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, 1870s. The St Panteleimon Monastery (Rossikon)

Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev, Russian author, c1860-c1864
Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev, Russian economist and political theorist, c1860-c1864. A relative of the novelist Ivan Turgenev

Shop in the House of Faberge, St Petersburg, Russia, 1910. The House of Faberge is a jewellery firm founded in St Petersburg in 1842 by Carl Faberge

Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin, Russian statesman, late 19th or early 20th century. After serving as Interior Minister from 1895 until 1899

Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, c1963-c1964. Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first man in space when he orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin with his wife, 1962. Gagarin (1934-1968) married Valentina Goryacheva in 1957. He became the first man in space when he orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April

Anastas Mikoyan, Russian communist statesman, c1920s-c1930s. Born in what is now Armenia, Mikoyan (1895-1978) joined the Bolsheviks in 1915 and participated in the 1917 Russian Revolution

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader, aged 4, 1874. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1903

Vladimir Nabokov, Russian author, 20th century. Nabokov (1899-1977) was a novelist and short story writer. He left Russia after the victory of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War

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

Stalin and Lenin, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leaders, Moscow, Russia, 1919. Stalin (1879-1953) and Lenin (1870-1924) at the VIII Congress of the Russian Communist Party

Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, 1974. Solzhenitsyns (1918-2008) novels were instrumental in raising global awareness of the Soviet system of forced labour camps, the Gulag

Leon Bakst, Russian artist and designer, 1910s. Bakst (1866-1924) is best known for the costume and set designs he produced for Serge Diaghilevs famous itinerant ballet company, the Ballets Russes

Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, 19th century. Artist: Wesenberg
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, 19th century. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) wrote music across a broad range of genres. Amongst his best known and most popular works are the ballets Swan Lake

Leon Bakst, Russian artist and designer and ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev, c1910. Bakst (1866-1924) (left) and Diaghilev (1872-1929) (centre) with unidentified others

Gustav Theodor Fechner, German experimental psychologist, c1883-c1884. Fechner (1801-1887) was an early pioneer in experimental psychology

Saint John of Kronstadt, Russian priest, c1900. John of Kronstadt (1829-1908) was a Russian Orthodox archpriest who worked at St Andrews Cathedral in Kronstadt

Occupation of Kharkov by the Volunteer Army of General Denikin, Russian Civil War, 1918. General Anton Denikin (1872-1947)

Russian theatre directo Vsevolod Meyerhold and his wife, actress Zinaida Raikh, early 1920s. Meyerhold (1874-1930) established his own theatre in Moscow in 1922

Barrage balloon at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, USSR, 1942. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

Barrage balloons near Moscow, USSR, World War II, 1941. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

Sputnik 1, Russian satellite, 1957. Launched on 4 October 1957, Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earths orbit

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