Figures of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century in "color" (24 photos)

Russian intelligence officer Alekseev and his wet sand sculpture, World War I

Lenin:

More Lenin:

Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and wife of V. And. Lenin

Leon Trotsky:

Rasputin:

Peter Kropotkin:

Michael Bulgakov

Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky?

Sergey Yesenin

Stolypin Petr Arkadevich

Nicholas II

Trubetskaya, Elizaveta Esperovna

Princess Elizaveta Esperovna Trubetskaya (née Princess Beloselskaya-Belozerskaya; November 20, 1834 - March 30, 1907) was a lady-in-waiting to Empress Maria Alexandrovna, the owner of a famous Parisian salon, and an intermediary in establishing Russian-French relations in the 1870s. Owner of the Elizavetino estate in St. Petersburg province, collector of materials about the Trubetskoy family.

Grand Duchesses Anastasia and Maria Romanova

Maria Feodorovna Romanova, Empress Consort of Russia (Dagmar of Denmark)

Family of Nicholas II (1914)

Maid of honor Princess Varvara Alexandrovna Dolgorukaya in a 17th-century hawthorn costume (for performance at the “Russian” ball), Costume ball 1903

Women's Death Battalion (World War I)

Maria Bochkareva, Russian women's death battalion, WWI

Vyacheslav Svoboda is a ballet dancer, choreographer, theater figure, and teacher.

Gymnasium students, Imperial Russia

German embassy to St. Petersburg, 1913

Lyubov Orlova in the “circus” (1936)

Soviet film star Marina Ladynina, 1939