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Vintage Nevsky Postcard Collection!

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Postcard 01 outside number 13
Looking towards the Admiralty from outside Dom 13 in 1905
Postcard 02 outside number 15
Looking towards the Admiralty from outside Dom 15 in 1905
Postcard 03 looking over "Police Bridge"
Looking towards the Police Bridge & between np18 to 20
Postcard 04 taken outside building number 18
Taken outside number 18 during 1909 (marked Petrograd 1914).
Postcard 05, the Singer Building in 1909
The Singer Building 1909 (from 1918 to 2005 was Dom Knigi)
Postcard 06 towards np32
Taken from the steps of the Municipal Duma towards np32
Postcard 07 The Hotel de Ville
Municipal Duma or Hotel de Ville and the Christ the Savior Chapel.
Postcard 08 The Hotel de Ville
Another of the Duma building or Hotel de Ville.
Postcard 09 St Catherine's Church
Nevsky 32 and St. Catherine's Catholic Church c1902
Postcard 10 Lutheran Church
Number 22 - 24, Lutheran Church 1914.
Postcard 11 Lutheran Church
Another of the Lutheran Church around 1900.
Postcard 12 Armenian Church
St. Catherine's Armenian Church around 1900.
Rear view, of the Arch of the General Staff Building
Bolshaya Morskaya street looking towards the General Staff building. c1902

Bolshaya Moreskaya again
Bolshaya Morskaya and the arch of the General Staff building. Card used 1904

Looking towards the Admiralty from between buildings 15 and 18
Outside np 15 looking towards the Admiralty. c1905 before the laying of a 2nd tramline

Trams and the old number 28 building
Looking directly towards the old building 28, which was replaced with the Singer Building by 1904

Trams and the old number 28 building
The Prospekt outside number 38 from a 1902 photograph.

Arrival of President Faure 1897
Arrival of President Faure 1897 (crowd facing np 26 & 28)

Arrival of President Loubet 1902
Arrival of President Loubet 1902 (crowd facing np 26 & 28)

Same location without the crowds 1903
Same location in 1903 with trams replacing the crowd.

Nevsky number 18, from the Police Bridge
Nevsky number 18, from the Police Bridge around 1900.

Nevsky numbers 20 and 17 from the Police Bridge
Dutch Reform Church on left Stroganoff Palace on the right.

Nevsky numbers 66 - 78
Nevsky 66 through to 78 on card sent 1899.

Anichkov Bridge and on the right, building 68 which received a direct hit during WWII and was rebuilt.
Anichkov Bridge and on the right, the old building No. 68.

Gostinny Dvor area on a 1903 postcard
Gostinny Dvor - Hotel de Ville area on a 1903 postcard.

Gostinny Dvor from a Karl Bulla photograph
Gostinny Dvor area from a Karl Bulla photograph.

Low level view of the street outside Gostinny Dvor
Tram, carriages and cobbles outside Gostinny Dvor. c1908

Tinted card showing Gostinny Dvor
Tinted card showing Gostinny Dvor at end of 19th century.

Gostinny Dvor area on a 1906 postcard
Gostinny Dvor - Hotel de Ville area on a 1906 postcard.

Gostinny Dvor area on a 1907 postcard.  - Nevskypostcard30
Gostinny Dvor - Hotel de Ville area on a 1907 postcard.

Russian National Library and Gostinny Dvor pc
The Russian National Library & Gostinny Dvor on a 1904 pc.

A funeral march of 1917
Revolution Funeral March of 1917 pc from a real photo.

Torgovy Dom
Np 50, Torgovy Dom (right), at beginning of 20th century.

Carriages outside np66 and the end of the 18th century
Carriages between Anichkov Palace and number 66 Nevsky.

A busy street outside 52, 54 and the now demolished number 56.
Busy outside 52, 54 & the long demolished np56 c1900.

A Karl Bulla photo pc of the Passage building No. 48 Nevsky
A Karl Bulla original of the Passage at No. 48 c1912

Color card of tram 1069
Tram '1069' outside building 64 sometime around 1909.

Nevsky postcard 38
The perspective of Nevsky looking from the Duma tower.

Postcard39 shows Anichkov Bridge
Looking over Anichkov Bridge towards the Cabinet building.

Postcard40 is a view of Upper Nevsky from Anichkov Bridge
A vintage view of Upper Nevsky from the Anichkov Bridge.

A nice card of the Gostinny Dvor area around 1910.
Gostinny Dvor - Hotel de Ville area around 1910.

A view of Sadovaya corner between the RNL and Gostinny Dvor
Activity on the corner of Sadovaya Street around 1910.

A postally used tinted card from 1903.
A simple tinted pc of Gostinny Dvor postally used in 1903.

Postcard44 is a view of Sadovaya corner in the rain
Looking along Sadovaya Street in the snow. May 24th 1908

Gostinny Dvor area around 1900.
An animated Gostinny Dvor - Hotel de Ville area c1909.

A card of an old painting of Gostinny Dvor
On the corner of Sadovaya Street. From an 1802 painting.

A postally used tinted card from 1902.
A simple tinted pc of Gostinny Dvor postally used in 1902.

Postcard48 is a view of the Gostinny Dvor area around 1900
Gostinny Dvor - Hotel de Ville area around 1900.

Low level view outside the RNL
Nevsky adjacent to the Russian National Library

A Nevsky view outside the Passage at number 48
Nevsky c1914, between Gostinny Dvor and the Passage.

Hotel Europa Color card
The Grand Hotel Europe

Postcard52
Tinted card, the Russian National Library & Anichkov Palace.

Looking along the front of Gostinny Dvor
The Christ the Savior Chapel, demolished in 1929.

Postcard 54
Tinted Nevsky c1914, between Gostinny Dvor and the Passage.

Where is this?
An as yet, unidentified area of Nevsky Prospekt. c1910

Postcard 56
Looking from what is now Yeliseyev's towards Anich Pal.

Some kind of street festival during the summer of 1907 seen opposite Kazan Plaza.
Street festival, summer 1902 taken opposite Kazan Sabor.

Anichkov Palace as seen from Nevsky.
Anichkov Palace between 19th and 20th centuries.

Ceremony on Anichkov Bridge during 1907
On Anichkov Bridge during summer of 1907

A rare inclusion: a Leningrad view from Yeliseyev's towards Anichkov Palace.
Not vintage, this Leningrad view of 1966 complements the above.

Anichkov Palace on the left and Building 66 on the right.
Looking towards upper Nevsky from Anichkov Bridge c1910

Anichkov Bridge with a yard-keeper.
Looking over Anichkov Bridge 1890s towards building 66

Looking towards Mikhaylovsky Palace about the time it became the Russian Museum.
Mikhailovskaya Ulitsa towards the Russian Museum.

Postcard64 looking east beyond the RNL.
1905 view of the RNL on the corner of Sadovaya Street.

The Christ the Savior Chapel.
Gostinny Dvor Chapel 1890s (Demolished in 1929)

The Police Bridge between the Stroganoff Palace and Chicherin's House at number 15.
The Police Bridge, postally used in 1902

Showing the construction of the new Singer Building (later Dom Knigi)
1903 street celebration. Note construction of the new # 28

from Malaya Konyushennaya across Nevsky to towards Kazansky Sabor.
Looking out from Malaya Konyushennaya c1899.

Postcard69.
Kazan Cathedral c1912

Postcard70.
Kazan Cathedral c1910

Postcard71 another of same cathedral.
Another Kazansky view

Postcard72 most likely a Karl Bulla original photo.
Another of np 32 c1910

Postcard73 issued in 1910.
Klodt Horse Tamer 1 on Anichkov Bridge

Postcard74 - 2nd Horse Tamer.
Klodt Horse Tamer 2 on Anichkov Bridge

Postcard75) - 3rd Horse Tamer.
Klodt Horse Tamer 3 on Anichkov Bridge

Postcard76.
Klodt Horse Tamer 4 on Anichkov Bridge

Postcard77
Catherine II monument (on undivided back) pre 1905

Cath II monument and the  Alexandrinsky Theatre.
Ekaterina II monument and the Alexandrine Theater

Postcard79.
Ekaterina II monument plus Theater, over-typed Petrograd

Postcard80.
Ekaterina II monument and the Alexandrine Theater

Postcard81 is another view of Ekaterina and Ostrovsky Square
Catherine II monument possibly already Leningrad.

Looking towards Nevsky and Yelisyev's
Catherine II monument viewed from the rear.

Russia's oldest Theater
Alexandrinsky Theater. (Russia's oldest which opened in 1756)

Yelisyev's deli at number 56 Nevsky
Yeliseyev brother's house at np 56 on a card sent in 1912

Believed to be the only monument in the city to this once popular despot
Catherine II monument (sculpted 1873)

Tinted card of Ekaterina II monument.
Catherine II monument with a seated statue missing c1912

Postcard87, with vintage view of the Church on Spilled Blood
Church of the Resurrection (Church on Spilled Blood)

A card posted in 1912, showing the domes tinted a different color to what can be seen today.
A 1912 card of same church, tinted with different colors

View of the Municipal Duma posted in 1912, showing the domes tinted a different color to what can be seen today.
Postally used 1912, card of the Municipal Duma building

A postally used card of the Duma Tower sent in 1923
Vintage card of the Duma Tower sent in 1923

Duma decorated for the visit of the French President in 1902
Duma tower decked out in 1902 for the visit of President Loubet

A tinted card of trams crossing Nevsky at Sadovaya Street.
View of the Sadovaya Street crossing in 1913

Moscovsky Vokzal at the turn of the 20th century
A superb c1900 card of the Nikolaievsky (now Moscovsky) Station

A very early Moscovsky Vokzal
The Moscovsky Vokzal (Station) some time around 1890

Postcard95
Another view of the station taken before 1900

What is now the Oktyabrskaya 
            Hotel, seen opposite from the Moscovsky Vokzal at the turn of the 20th century
The Grand Hotel du Nord c1903, now the Oktyabrskaya Hotel

View of Alex III monument after it's unveiling May 23rd 1909
After the unveiling of the new Alexander III monument 1909

Alex III in front of what is Nevsky building number 118
A tinted card of Alexander III monument in front of the hotel

Postcard99
Another tint, with Alexander blocking the view of the church

1902 card of the church in Znamenskaya Square (Ploshchad Vosstaniya)
The Church of the Sign which was demolished in 1940

The Square, with trams aroiund 1910
Znamenskaya in 1934

Another tint of Znamenskaya and it's church
Znamenskaya in 1909

Postcard103
Church & Nevsky House 116

1902 card of the church in Znamenskaya Square (Ploschad Vosstaniya)
Church of the Sign c1898

The Square, with trams around 1910
Znamenskaya in 1890s

A rare view of the church, late 19th century
Church of the Icon of the Sign

Postcard107 taken around 1920
Real photo card of Alex III

1880s card of the church in Znamenskaya Square
1880s card looking up Nevsky

Postcard109 Shows another of the Alex III monument
Alexander III again

A postally used card of Alex III
Yet another posted in 1912

Postcard111 taken in 1910
Real photo card of 1910

High level view of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra on a card sent to Belgium 1906
View of the Lavra sent 1906

Looking across Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo towards the Lavra main gate
Gate No. 1 to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in the late 19th century

Lavra gate building
The Lavra main gate showing a policeman walking towards the camera

Postcard115 taken during 1890s
Image of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra main gate on an 1890s postcard

High level view of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra on a card sent to Belgium 1906
Tinted card showing the same view of the Lavra as above. Postally used 1906

Nevsky postcard 117
Snow in May! Gostinny Dvor, real photo 24th May 1908.

Nevsky postcard 118
Nevsky around 1900 before the pink bldg was demolished to make way for the Singer Building.

Nevsky postcard 119
A 1905 card looking across Kazansky Square towards Nevsky buildings 26 & 28.

High level view of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra on a card sent to Belgium 1906
An animated view of Kazanskaya Square and the Singer Building. card used 1909


These images are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before 1923; plus their copyright has also expired in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author/photographer plus 50 years.



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