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A woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing a bridal? dress and veil, in front of a plain backdrop.

The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

Imperial Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia. Wood engraving by Laing after L. von Klenze.

A woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing an embriodered dress.

A woman posing wrapped in a sheet, looking through a screen giving the effect of the frame of a looking-glass, in a photographic studio.

Fifth International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, St Petersburg, 1910. Photograph.

A young woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing an unusual dress, in front of a plain backdrop.

Imperial Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia: interior. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1851, after L. von Klenze.

The interior of a room with steam and cold water pipes at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

M. A. Slavina, in front of a plain, or airbrushed, background.

The assassination of Alexander II: the place outside the Winter Palace is strewn with corpses and debris of the bomb-explosion, while Alexander emerges alive from his coach. Process print (?).

S.P. Botkin i Voenno-Meditsinskai︠a︡ Akademi︠︡ia / V.B. Antonov, A.S. Georgievskiĭ.

Life and death in besieged Leningrad, 1941-44 / edited by John Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich.

Die Affäre Hillmer : ein Okulist aus Berlin in Petersburg 1751 / Aloys Henning.

Bibliographie der Literatur zur Homöopathie in der Russischen Nationalbibliothek St. Petersburg / Anna M. Ivachnova.

Katalog indīĭskikh rukopiseĭ / sostavil N.D. Mironov.

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Saint Petersburg

Images from the collections

Images about Saint Petersburg

Works from the collections

S.P. Botkin i Voenno-Meditsinskai︠a︡ Akademi︠︡ia / V.B. Antonov, A.S. Georgievskiĭ.

Life and death in besieged Leningrad, 1941-44 / edited by John Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich.

Die Affäre Hillmer : ein Okulist aus Berlin in Petersburg 1751 / Aloys Henning.

Bibliographie der Literatur zur Homöopathie in der Russischen Nationalbibliothek St. Petersburg / Anna M. Ivachnova.

Katalog indīĭskikh rukopiseĭ / sostavil N.D. Mironov.

Saint Petersburg

Images from the collections

Images about Saint Petersburg

Works from the collections

S.P. Botkin i Voenno-Meditsinskai︠a︡ Akademi︠︡ia / V.B. Antonov, A.S. Georgievskiĭ.

Life and death in besieged Leningrad, 1941-44 / edited by John Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich.

Die Affäre Hillmer : ein Okulist aus Berlin in Petersburg 1751 / Aloys Henning.

Bibliographie der Literatur zur Homöopathie in der Russischen Nationalbibliothek St. Petersburg / Anna M. Ivachnova.

Katalog indīĭskikh rukopiseĭ / sostavil N.D. Mironov.

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