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The giant porphyry vase in the image here, was a gift from Swedish King Karl XIV to the Russian Tsar Nicholas I.
Card showing the rear entrance to the Summer Garden (opposite the Engineer's Castle) c1900.
Postcard 002:  Outside  the main entrance to the Summer Garden, sent 1903
The chapel built in the 1880s, outside the main entrance to the Summer Garden. Card sent 1903
Postcard 003 is again looking  at the Alexander Nevsky Chapel set within the railing of the Summer Garden.
A 1905 card showing a policeman standing outside Alexander II's chapel.
Horse drawn carriages on the quay outside the Summer Garden.
A view of 'French Quay' showing the ornate railings on the Neva-side of the Summer Garden. c1898
Trinity Cathedral, long before the dome was destroyed by fire in August 2006
Trinity Cathedral at the turn of the 20th century. ( main dome was destroyed by fire 2006)
Postcard 006  showing another view of the Trinity Cathedral
Another view of the Trinity Cathedral of Izmailovsky Life Guard Regiment, early 1900s.
German Reform Church 1864 to 1929
A 1907 card showing what was the German Reform Church on what was Herzen Street.
The church which was virtually dismantled and rebuilt as the House of Culture for Communications Workers
A 1909 view of the church by the Moika at what is now 58 Bolshaya Morskaya and a Soviet building.
Nicholas Quay card sent 1900
Nicholas Quay on a card posted in 1900.
Postcard 010, Cabin of Peter the Great Lutheran Church
The Cabin of Peter I on an undivided back card 1890s.
Peter's cabin again
Peter the Great's Cabin on card sent 1902.
Postcard 012 is Pont Troitsky
Troitzky Bridge around 1900. (aka Trinity or Kirovsky Bridge).
Postcard 013 is of the Troitzsy Bridge, sent 1910
Troitzky Bridge on a card mailed in 1910.

Postcard 014 is another of the Troitzsy Bridge
Troitzky Bridge on a card created from a Karl Bulla photograph.

The same image as previous, but tinted.
The same image as the previous, only this is color tinted.

Yet another of Troitzsy Most on a 1904 card.
Pont Troitsky from the other side on a card sent 1908.

Postcard 017 is probably from a Karl Bulla photo of Liteiny Bridge.
Pont de Liteyny (Liteiny Bridge) on early 1900s card.

Postcard 018 Nicolas Bridge
A 1909 used card of Pont Nicolas (now Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge)

Postcard 019 Nicolas Bridge
Pont Nicolas (Nikolaievsky Most) c1910

Postcard 020 Nicolas Bridge
The Chapel on Pont Nicolas c1916?

Postcard 017 is probably from a Karl Bulla photo of Liteiny Bridge.
Pont Nicolas from above, on an early 1900s card.

Postcard 022 is a used card of the English Quay in 1903
A 1903 postally used card of "English Quay"

Postcard 023 is a card of the Marble Palace
A postally used card of the Marble Palace sent in 1903

Postcard 024 is the Tavrichesky dvorets
Home of the State Duma 1906 - 1917, aka the Tauride Palace 1916

Postcard 025.
The Engineer's Castle on an undivided-back card sent 1903.
Postcard 026, the Mikhailovsky Castle
The Engineer's Castle (Mikhailovsky Castle). c1910

Postcard 027 showing a horse drawn by the Neva
An 1890s horse-drawn tram on the English Quay.

Mikhailovsky Palace and the Church on Spilled Blood
Mikhailovskaya Park at the beginning of 20th century.

Postcard 029 is an 1890's view of the Summer Garden chapel.
Alexander II's chapel c1890
Postcard 030, The Palace (or French) Quay c1903
The Palace Quay c1903

Postcard 031 is a colored card of the Russian Museum
The Russian Museum c1913

Mikhailovsky Palace aka Russian Museum
The Russian Museum c1910

Postcard 033 Smolny.
Smolny Monastery, sent 1904.
Postcard 034
Smolny Monastery, sent 1907.

Postcard 035 is Smolny Institute
Smolny Institute c1910

A painting of Smolny
pc from a painting of Smolny

Postcard 037 yet another of the Engineer's Castle on an undivided back sent in 1903.
Yet another of the Engineer's Castle, card used in 1904.
Postcard 034
Nicolaievskaya Street c1900 showing a long gone church.

Postcard 039 is the State Theater taken in 1904
Imperial Mariinsky Theater on postally used card of 1904

Peter I's Summer Palace
Summer Palace of Peter the Great in approx. 1910

Postcard 041
Znamenskaya in 1904.
Postcard 042 showing the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul at Peterhof 1914 card
The Pavilion at Peterhof c1915

Postcard 043 is Admiralty Quay from the Neva
Admiralty Quay, used in 1912

Postcard 044
Admiralty & St. Isaacs 1906

Postcard 045
St. Isaac's c1920?

Postcard 047
St. Isaac's Square in 1912

Postcard 048
St. Isaac's 1910

Postcard 049
St. Isaac's c1909
Postcard 050
St. Isaac's card mailed 1911

Postcard 051
St. Isaakievsky Sabor c1900

Postcard 052
Cathédrale de St. Isaac c1908

Postcard 053
Vista from St. Isaacs looking over the square c1912
Postcard 054
The Bronze Horseman and St. Isaac's Cathedral

Postcard 055
The Bronze Horseman c1900. Monument of Peter the Great.

Postcard 056
The Bronze Horseman 1898, in front of an Admiralty wing

Postcard 057
Looking along Admiralty Quay. c1916.
Postcard 058
Admiralty & St. Isaacs, postally used in 1903.

Postcard 059
A card showing St. Petersburg flooded 12th November 1903.

Postcard 060
The Synod and Senate building of around 1900.

Postcard 061
The Technology Institute
Postcard 062
Vladimirskaya Place c1913.

Postcard 063
Outside 18 Nevsky, mid 1880s

Postcard 064
A card sent from Peterhof 1902

Postcard 062
Temporary chapel marking the spot of the the assassination of Alexander II. 1880s
Postcard 066
A 1903 pc of the Alexander Column monument in Palace Square.

Postcard 067
A postally used card of 1904 showing the German Reform Church by the Moika

Postcard 068
A pc of Tsar Nicolas I's monument published by Raphael Tuck and Sons of London. c1910

Postcard 069
Kunstcamera and Zoological buildings, plus a Rostral Column on a card issued c1900.

Postcard 070
The Strelka (or Spit of Vasilievsky Island) c1905. Note Kunstcamera tower incomplete

Postcard 071
A used card of 1902, showing the Kunstkamma, Zoological Museum and Palace Bridge.

Postcard 072
The Bourse (Stock Exchange) on an 1890s pc, is now the Naval Museum.

Postcard 073
La bourse from the Neva c1903

Postcard 074
La bourse, used in 1905

Postcard 075
The Bourse, early 1900s

Postcard 076
The Bourse on an 1890s pc.

Postcard 077
The Winter Palace 1890s

Postcard 078
Le Palais d'Hiver 1898

Postcard 079
Winter Palace (Ermitage) 1900

Postcard 080
Winter Palace (Hermitage) 1900s

Postcard 081
Palace Square sent in 1908

Postcard 082
Palace Square c1900

Postcard 083
Palace Square c1902

Postcard 084
General Staff building, 1912 pc

Postcard 085
The Winter Canal 1909

Postcard 086
The New Ermitage c1910

Postcard 087
New Ermitage c1908 (by Bulla)

Postcard 088
Winter Palace, used in 1908

Postcard 089
Palace and landing quay c1900

Postcard 090
Petersburg Imperial Juris Sch.

Postcard 091
Bolshoy Morskaya Str. 1902

Postcard 092
St. Petersburg flood of 1824

Postcard 093
Winter Palace from the Neva c1904

Postcard 094
Nikolaievsky Palace or Xenia Institute for noble young ladies

Postcard 095
Bolshoy Morskaya Street, looking from Nevsky. c1902

Postcard 096
Church of the convent of Kiev. Early 1900s

Postcard 097
Nicholas Bridge 1915

Postcard 098
Nicholas Bridge in winter, 1912

Postcard 099
Le pont de Nicolas 1890s

Postcard 100
Nikolaievsky Most in 1909

Postcard 101
Haymarket (Sennaya) 1904

Postcard 102
Haymarket (Les Halles) 1910

Postcard 103
Haymarket (Le Marché) 1910

Postcard 104
Haymarket (Le Marché) 1910

Postcard 105
The long gone Ascension church on the plot opposite Vitebsk Stn.

Postcard 106
Vitebsk Vokzal (or La gare de Tsarskoye Selo) early 1900s

Postcard 107
A tinted version of a Karl Bulla image, showing Vitebsk Station

Postcard 108
The Baltic Rail station (Baltiyskaya Vokzal) c1910

Postcard 109
Varshavsky Vokzal (The Warsaw Rail Station) c1900.

Postcard 110
Varshavsky Vokzal, postally used in 1902.

Postcard 111
The Warsaw railroad station during early 1900s

Postcard 112
Narodny Dom (House of the Nation) early 1900s

Postcard 113
The Embassy of Austria and Hungary during 1890s.

Postcard 114
Pl. Souvorovskaya, looking towards the Neva c1908

Postcard 115
The Fortress of St. Peter & St. Paul, early 1900s

Nevsky Postcard 117
Snow in May! Gostinny Dvor area 24th May 1908.


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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