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| Anonymous Russian photographer Panoramic view of Neva River and the Winter Palace ca. 1900 albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Hippolyte Robillard Portrait of Countess Sophia Bobrinskaya 1869 albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
I absolutely cannot understand why the photograph above has never been used for the dust jacket of Anna Karenina. It looks as if it could not have been created for any other purpose. With the original work of fiction and its original English translations all now in the public domain, there is really no excuse for the non-existence of such an edition.
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| Anonymous Russian photographer Park on the Mikhailovka Country Estate 1880s platinotype Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Russian photographer Chamber Footman in Prussian Livery ca. 1875-80 albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Russian photographer Park on the Osinovaya-Roshcha Country Estate ca. 1885 albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giovanni Bianchi Portrait of Princess Isabella Gagarina 1867 albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Wilhelm Lapré Portrait of the Courier Nikolai Nesterov ca. 1882 albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| William Carrick Portrait of Dead-Game Street-Trader 1860s albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| William Carrick St Petersburg Coachmen in Tea-house 1860s albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Russian photographer Portrait of woodcut-artist Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva 1921 silver bromide print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Russian photographer Enfilade, Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo 1859 albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giovanni Bianchi Stroganov Mansion, Sergievskaya Street 1860s albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giovanni Bianchi Façade, Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo 1870s albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Russian photographer The Bronze Horseman Étienne-Maurice Falconet's monument to Peter the Great 1872 albumen print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Catherine the Great hired the prominent French sculptor Étienne-Maurice Falconet to create this gigantic monument in honor of her predecessor. The granite boulder and bronze statue combined are nearly fifty feet tall. Our old friend Denis Diderot, in correspondence with the Empress, secured the job for Falconet, who remained in Russia working on the project from 1766 to 1778. By the time the work was unveiled in 1782, Falconet had been absent from the country for four years, sent away after offending Catherine with his too-copious opinions.
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| Snuffbox Switzerland The Bronze Horseman by Étienne-Maurice Falconet ca. 1785 enameled gold Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |