Russians Collection (page 7)

Portraits of foreigners - Russians, American lady. Japanese print shows the clothing styles of Russian men, and an American woman. Date 1861

People of various nations - Russians, French. Japanese print with four illustrations, two of men on horseback and two illustrating clothing styles of Russian and French women. Date 1861

Russians. Japanese print shows three Russians, two wearing military uniforms. The third Russian has an animal, possibly some sort of feline, on a leash. Date between 1850 and 1900

People of the five nations - Russians. Japanese print shows a Russian military officer on horseback. Date 1861

Russians and sheep. Japanese print shows a Russian military officer and another man feeding a goat. Date 1860

Russians enjoying themselves on Sunday in Yokohama. Japanese print shows two Russian men, one holding a telescope, and a child looking at the scenery along the shoreline in Yokohama

Austrian officers captured by the Russians, WW1
Austrian officers captured by the Russians during the First World War. Date: 26 August 1915

Austrian weapons captured by the Russians, WW1
Austrian weapons captured by the Russians at Podvolochisk, Galicia (now Ukraine) during the First World War. A box of shells is propped up against the wheel of a field gun carriage. Date: 1914-1918

Carl Kniaziewicz
CARL KNIAZIEWICZ Polish military commander of the Polish Legion, officially part of the Italian army but fighting with Napoleon against the Russians. Date: 1762 - 1842

Russian Hunters
A party of Russian hunters wait with their dogs on the platform of a rural railway station. Date: 1920

Russians passing through Augustowo, WW1
A transport group of Russians passing through Augustowo (Augustow, Poland) on the eastern front during the First World War. Among them is a Cossack general. Date: 1914-1917

Kars, Turkey - The Bridge, Church and Minaret
The Bridge, 10th century Armenian Church of the Holy Apostlesand Minaret at Kars, Turkey. Originally an Armenian capital. Became part of the Ottoman Empire (captured in 1534)

Battle of Smolensk between Napoleon and Bagration; the Russians ultimately evacuate the town after firing it Date: 17 August 1812

Russians / Khiva 1873
A meeting between a Russian general and the Khan of Khiva to discuss peace terms. Khiva is in modern Uzbekistan. Date: 1873

Cosmonaut training

Belyayev and Leonov, Soviet cosmonauts
Belyayev and Leonov (right), Soviet cosmonauts, in military uniform. Alexei A. Leonov (born 1934) performed the first ever spacewalk (extravehicular activity, EVA)

Port Arthur (Dalian) - Japanese bombardment
Port Arthur (Dalian) - a Russian administrative building damaged during the Japanese bombardment in February 1904. Dalian, Liaoning province

Russian immigrants in London Library
Russian immigrants in the Free Russian Library, Whitechapel

Russians in Poland
Troops of the Russian advance guard in the main street of a town in Poland

Piotrowiezowa, a heroine of the January Insurrection at Lodz
Patriotic Polish postcard depicting Piotrowiezowa (of the House of Michaels Fall), a heroine of the January Insurrection at Lodz - 15th February 1863 - fighting against the Russians

Prince Alfred and the Russian Royal family
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg (1844-1900) together with his new wife, Princess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, taken in May 1874 shortly after their marriage at St

Kars - Turkey
Kars, Turkey. Originally an Armenian capital. Became part of the Ottoman Empire (captured in 1534), then surrendered in 1828 to the Russian General Count Ivan Paskevich

The advance guard of the Russians occupying a town in Poland

The Handing Over Ceremony at Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, 1856
Double page landscape engraving of Balklava at the handing over of power from the Allies to the Russians, 1856. Troops of every kind, including sailors, legionaries, Russian cavalrymen and civilians

Emperor and Tsar
Tsar Alexander II receives Napoleon III at Warsaw, soon after the end of the Crimean War in which the Russians were defeated by the French and British

Insurgent Outpost
Insurgents at an outpost await an attack from the Russians

Battle of Ostrolenka
Led by Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki, Polish forces fight valiantly at Ostrolenko, but are eventually defeated by the Russians and forced to retreat to Warsaw. Date: 26 May 1831

Patriots Exiled
After successive defeats by the Russians, Polish resistance crumbles and the leaders are sent into exile

Russians in Bulgaria
Russian agents seek to inter- -vene in the political crisis when Alexander abdicates : but another German prince, Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, will be chosen to succeed him

Russians Attacked
A Russian convoy is attacked by Polish patriots near Zyzin

Battle of Kobylanka
The insurgents rout the Russians at Kobylanka : the Russians flee in disorder

Battle of Krasnobrod
Fighting between the insurgents and the Russians at Krasnobrod, which will also be the scene of a major battle in World War Two

Warsaw Riots - 2
When a patriotic demonstration demanding reform is held before the viceregal castle, Warsaw, the Russians disperse it with great brutality and many deaths

Fighting at Glanow
Count Aleksander Krukowiecki defends his castle at Glanow against a force of Russians

Polish Precautions
A Polish peasant hides his masters possessions, to save them from pillage by the Russians

Greek Church Burned
Fighting in Lithuania between insurgents and Russians : a Greek church near Novogroudek is destroyed as a symbol of oppression

Bolislas Kolyszko
Insurgent leader, captured and hanged by the Russians at Vilna on the orders of Muraviev

Insurgent Volunteers
At Krakow, a party of volunteers slip out of the town at night to elude the Russians and join the forces of insurrection

Russian Reprisals
The Russians carry out savage reprisals for the insurgents attacks : the village of Mologoszcza is left smouldering by Russians seeking revenge

Fighting at Konowice
Insurgents and Russians contest the railway bridge at Konowice, on the main line to Warsaw

Battle of Miechow
Battle between the insurgents and the Russians in the streets of Miechow

Warsaw Riots - 1
A demonstration demanding reform is held before the viceregal castle : the Russians disperse it with great brutality and many deaths

Rebels Suppressed
In conflict with the Russians, Polish patriots are once again defeated

Russian Brutality
A religious procession from the church of the Bernardins is suspected by the Russians of being a political demonstration, and dispersed with the usual brutality

Blown-up bridge in Warsaw
A bridge over the Vistula at Warsaw, blown up by the Russians in their retreat through Poland. In May 1915, the combined forces of Austria-Hungary

Polish V. Russians / 1863
Poles fight against the Russians at Zagosc

Rus / Jap War / Retreat
The Russians abandon Mukden, which is taken by the Japanese under Field-Marshal Orama

Crossing the Beresina
The French retreat : the passage of the Beresina river, following which some 36 000 bodies were found in the river by the Russians

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