![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/16t.jpg) Reconstruction of Stalin style office in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/28t.jpg) Typical barrack (reconstruction) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/37t.jpg) Lenin s Cabinet (workroom), reconstruction, in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/29t.jpg) Common kitchen of a communal flat (reconstruction) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/17t.jpg) Reconstruction of Soviet style kitchen in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/14t.jpg) Reconstruction of Soviet style boiler-room (kotelnaya) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/23t.jpg) Soviet office (Kabinet) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/33t.jpg) Wooden staircase in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/34t.jpg) Exhibition hall in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/36t.jpg) Marble stairs in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/30t.jpg) Showcase "Moving to a new flat" in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/32t.jpg) Old wooden sculpture on a door in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/38t.jpg) Collection of revolutionary posters in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/31t.jpg) Typological complex "Boyler s House" in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/39t.jpg) Caricature rubber sculpture of a head of the first Russian president Boris Yeltsin in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/13t.jpg) Hall in Kshesinskaya Mansion, now Museum of Political History. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/15t.jpg) Wooden stairs in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/27t.jpg) Figures of Russian revolutionaries on porcelain dish art "Returning from emigration in April of 1917" (1930-s) by I. Riznich in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/27t.jpg) Decoration of a wooden door in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/21t.jpg) Soviet kitchen (Kukhnia) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/22t.jpg) Boiler-room (Kotelnaya) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/26t.jpg) Stained glass with monument of Peter the Great in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/25t.jpg) Leather coat of a communist spy Richard Sorge (Germany, 1930s) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/24t.jpg) Golden pocket watch Pavel Bure belonging to a Soviet military leader N. Podvoisky in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2013/jpeg/02t.jpg) Office of Lenin s Museum in Jalkala (Ilyichovo), north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, April 1, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1999/80/jpeg/15t.jpg) Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute with an old artistically decorated chimney and a Soviet-era exposition. The museum was settled in a former typewriting office (the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1078/jpeg/12t.jpg) Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1147/jpeg/01t.jpg) Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1147/jpeg/02t.jpg) Sculptures in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1147/jpeg/03t.jpg) Marble sculptures in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1078/jpeg/14t.jpg) Marble sculpture in a gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/758/jpeg/05t.jpg) Statue of Three Graces in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1078/jpeg/13t.jpg) Marble statue of a woman with a skull in a gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/758/jpeg/02t.jpg) Replicas of ancient art in Gallery of History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1252/jpeg/16t.jpg) A marble sculpture of three women in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Petersburg, Russia, September 3, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1222/jpeg/21t.jpg) Reconstruction of Bedouin harem(?) in Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum near Al-Shahaniya. Doha, Qatar, June 22, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1222/jpeg/17t.jpg) Reconstruction of Bedouin camp in Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum near Al-Shahaniya. Doha, Qatar, June 22, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1221/jpeg/23t.jpg) Reconstruction of Bedouin house in Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum near Al-Shahaniya. Doha, Qatar, June 22, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1224/jpeg/02t.jpg) Reconstruction of a traditional harem(?) in Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum near Al-Shahaniya. Doha, Qatar, June 22, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/1985/jpeg/04t.jpg) Monument of political repressions on Robespyera Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 10, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/965/jpeg/06t.jpg) Monument of political prisoners on embankment of Neva River. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/962/jpeg/15t.jpg) Political protests (Day of Wrath) near a monument of a Soviet poet V. Mayakovsky. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 12, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/962/jpeg/14t.jpg) Occupy Wall like political protests (Day of Wrath) near a monument of V. Mayakovsky. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 12, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2500/jpeg/20t.jpg) Mansion at 27 Krugovaya Street Krasnaya Dolina (Red Valley) in Pavlovsk Park. Pavlovsk, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 16, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/962/jpeg/16t.jpg) Pensioners watching Occupy Wall like political protests (Day of Wrath) near a monument of a Soviet poet V. Mayakovsky. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 12, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1882/jpeg/01t.jpg) Mont Blanc office building on Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 16, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/22t.jpg) Bolshoy Dom, FSB (secret police) headquarters on Liteyny Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 27, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1087/jpeg/11t.jpg) Post office(?) on Sovetsky Prospect in downtown of Sablino, 30 miles south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, July 29, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1882/jpeg/02t.jpg) Mont Blanc office building from a crossing of Bolshoy Sampsonievsky and Finliandsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 16, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/02t.jpg) Corridor in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/04t.jpg) Paintings in a room in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/06t.jpg) Modern art composition in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1998/60/jpeg/30t.jpg) Insects show at Museum of Natural History. Washington DC, February 5, 1998.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/05t.jpg) Modern steel sculptures in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/03t.jpg) Exhibition hall with a bench in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1998/60/jpeg/19t.jpg) World War II propaganda posters at Museum of American History. Washington DC, February 4, 1998.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/07t.jpg) Art installation Game Over (inspired by Tetris) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/24t.jpg) Fragment of a modern colorful painting in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/25t.jpg) Painting "Sheikh and Burqa (2008) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/07t.jpg) Art installation Last Supper by Pavel Grishin in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1998/60/jpeg/29t.jpg) Crickets on National Geographic magazines at Museum of Natural History. Washington DC, February 5, 1998.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1999/83/jpeg/07t.jpg) Bolshoi Dom (Russian secret police ChK-GPU-NKVD-KGB-FSK) at Liteynyi Prospect in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Compare its architecture with Federal Building in Dallas. April 21, 1999.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/22t.jpg) Painting Teacher (2015) by Porfiry Fedorin in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/13t.jpg) Wooden sculpture "The God-given Burden" by Leonid Kolibaba in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/16t.jpg) Painting by Alexander Kosenkov "Red-cap Mushrooms" (2018) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/18t.jpg) Modern art installation Fragment of the Artist s Studio in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/22t.jpg) Painting Self-Portrait (2009) by Tatiana Tulicheva in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/23t.jpg) Painting "Red-Blue" (2018) by Igor Mikailenko in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/15t.jpg) Painting The Eucharist (2001) by Sergey Bakin in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/08t.jpg) Birds Sculpture (2016) by Alexander Fyodorov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/20t.jpg) Taurus steel sculpture by Dmitry Zhukov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/24t.jpg) Painting Football (1986) by Aron Zinshtein in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/08t.jpg) Painting by Vyacheslav Mikhailov Vernicle (2006) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/26t.jpg) Paroxism painting (1993) by Alexander Zagoskin in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/09t.jpg) Painting by Vyacheslav Mikhailov "Carnival" (1988) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/05t.jpg) Figure of a sitting woman "Messenger from Space" in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/17t.jpg) Painting by Damir Krivenko "Hacker" (2018) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/872/jpeg/19t.jpg) Firing squad executing a group of orthodox priests for political reasons on a wall icon "Novomucheniki Petrogradskiye" (Petrograd martyrs) in Kazanskaya Church in Novodevichiy Cathedral. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 26, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/23t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/18t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1998/60/jpeg/20t.jpg) A portrait of Russian communist leader J. Stalin at Museum of American History. Washington DC, February 4, 1998.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/19t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/22t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/21t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/710/jpeg/01t.jpg) Anticipation of death exhibit in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/19t.jpg) Money Coffin for a gambler(?) in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/23t.jpg) Painting "Metro. Escalator" (1985) by Aron Zinshtein in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/18t.jpg) Head on a painting by Damir Krivenko "Hacker" (2018) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/19t.jpg) Sculpture Meat Venus (2018) by Inna Grinchel in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/21t.jpg) Painting Fairwell of Slavianka (2006) by Konstantin Khudyakov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/26t.jpg) Modern art installation "Self-portrait" (2014) by Sergey Pasukhin in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/17t.jpg) Painting Pioneer Bonfire (1966) by Evgeny Savrasov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/09t.jpg) Dancing Girl Sculpture (1997) by Elena Figurina in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/20t.jpg) Paper art installation "In the Garden" (2017) by Ksenia Sashina in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/21t.jpg) Airplane model covered by carpet "Kovior Samoliot" in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/12t.jpg) Painting Repairing Broken Surface by Yuriy Nikiforov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2514/jpeg/19t.jpg) Track of Worm steel sculpture by Sergey Karev in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/710/jpeg/05t.jpg) Wooden compartments for coffins in a hearse in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/23t.jpg) Model of ancient Egyptian coffin in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
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