A monarchy located in north Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean. St Petersburg was the capital 1712–1918. Moscow was the capital before St. Petersburg and following it.
    

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St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.

A senior German army doctor being driven at speed in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

An old physician taking the pulse of a seated patient; representing the sense of touch. Aquatint with etching by J.-B. Le Prince, 1775.

Malaria: a construction worker receiving medical attention designed to prevent the spread of malaria. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.

A woman in Russia is sitting at a table selling bread to an Albanian soldier wearing a long cloak; a child is curled up asleep on the ground. Etching by J.B. Le Prince, 1765.

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Newton and Russia : the early influence, 1698-1796 / [Valentin Boss].

Trid︠t︡satʹlet dei︠a︡telʹnosti Instituta onkologii Akademii medi︠t︡sinskikh nauk SSSR, 1926-1956 : itogi kliniko-lechebʹnoĭ, nauchno-issledovatelʹskoi i organiz︠a︡tsionnoĭ raboty / pod redak︠t︡sieĭ A.I. Serebrova, S.A. Kholdina i ... A.V. Ckaklina.

Lebendige Verbindungen : Biobibliographisches Lexikon der Biochemiker zwischen Deutschland und Russland im 19. Jahrhundert / Marta Fischer.

The disappearance of the Russian queen, or How the Soviet closet was born / Dan Healey.

Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks / par Alexis de Levchine ... Traduite du russe par Ferry de Pigny ... Revue et publiée par E. Charrière.

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Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks / par Alexis de Levchine ... Traduite du russe par Ferry de Pigny ... Revue et publiée par E. Charrière.