![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/956/jpeg/24t.jpg) Ivory decoration on display in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/956/jpeg/21t.jpg) Enamel decoration on display in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/956/jpeg/22t.jpg) Fragment of enamel decoration on display in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/956/jpeg/23t.jpg) Scene on enamel decoration on display in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../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/2013/1142/jpeg/24t.jpg) Decoration on wood in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 4, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/970/jpeg/13t.jpg) Human figures at the top of Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 27, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/970/jpeg/15t.jpg) Figures of winged animals at the top of Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 27, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1439/jpeg/19t.jpg) Decoration of Armory Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/970/jpeg/01t.jpg) Decoration near a top of a building near Nevsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 27, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/970/jpeg/10t.jpg) Decoration of a building at 105 Fontanka River Embankment, near Gorokhovaya Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 27, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1430/jpeg/12t.jpg) Decoration over a window of the building of 4th Central Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Fontanka Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/949/jpeg/22t.jpg) White Hall in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 26, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/949/jpeg/21t.jpg) Visitors of Russian Museum in front of Vasnetsov(?) painting. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 26, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/941/jpeg/22t.jpg) Wax replica of a head of Russian tsar Peter the Great by B. K. Rastrelli in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 17, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2223/jpeg/03t.jpg) Wall decoration in Gallery of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/458/jpeg/25t.jpg) A decoration in Alexander Hall in Hermitage museum (Winter Palace). Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/13t.jpg) Wooden art in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/05t.jpg) Decorations of White Hall of Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/08t.jpg) Statue of Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/07t.jpg) Karl Briullov Hall in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/11t.jpg) Ilya Repin painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/10t.jpg) Sculpture Mephistopheles by Mark Antokolsky in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1439/jpeg/20t.jpg) Exhibition of traditional Russian dress in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/12t.jpg) A. E. Yakovlev and V. I. Shukhaev painting "Harlequin and Piero" in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/03t.jpg) Fragment of tapestry in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/07t.jpg) Decorated dish in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/05t.jpg) Fragment of a shield in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/04t.jpg) Medusa on a shield in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/06t.jpg) War scene on a shield in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/876/jpeg/26t.jpg) Decoration with voting(?) saints on ivory plaque (book cover, Italy, early 12th century) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/01t.jpg) Figure of J. Christ on display in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/956/jpeg/19t.jpg) Bronze dish on display in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/956/jpeg/25t.jpg) Scene on ivory on display in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/16t.jpg) War scene on an ancient coin in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/11t.jpg) War scene on a brass dish in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/09t.jpg) Round decorated item in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/12t.jpg) Scene from Bible on brass in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/10t.jpg) Saint on a brass dish in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1430/jpeg/04t.jpg) Decoration of Art College on Solianoy Pereulok. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1430/jpeg/07t.jpg) Decoration of a house on Pestelia Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1430/jpeg/11t.jpg) Window decoration on Chaykovskogo Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1430/jpeg/21t.jpg) Heraldic decoration at 20 Nevsky Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2224/jpeg/10t.jpg) Sculpture of Russian Tsar Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 9, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1142/jpeg/15t.jpg) Sculpture of Russian Tsar Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 4, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/956/jpeg/20t.jpg) Detail of a bronze dish on display in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/14t.jpg) Ancient Greek silver coin in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1142/jpeg/14t.jpg) Head of Russian Tsar Peter the Great at entrance of Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 4, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/962/jpeg/05t.jpg) Baneberry (Actaea Spicata, Russian name Voronets) near Toksovo, 10 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 11, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/972/jpeg/21t.jpg) Beach Pea (Lathyrus maritimus, Russian name Cheena) in dunes of Solnechnoe, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 30, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/972/jpeg/08t.jpg) Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare, Russian name Pizhma) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/14t.jpg) Meadow rue (Thalictrum aquilegifolium, Russian name Vasilistnik) in Posiolok, 45 miles south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 23, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/970/jpeg/20t.jpg) Swamp loosestrife (Naumburgia thyrsiflora, Russian name Kizliak) in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 28, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/970/jpeg/24t.jpg) Flower bud of Angelica sylvestris (Russian name Dudnik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/959/jpeg/11t.jpg) Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis, Russian name Landysh) in Lembolovo, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 7, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/971/jpeg/16t.jpg) Flower bud Angelica sylvestris (Russian name Dudnik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/15t.jpg) Ancient Greek copper coin from Khersones in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/13t.jpg) Japanese ivory figure (Demon with a cup of sake) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/485/jpeg/03t.jpg) Museum guard in Benois Building (Corpus Benua) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/06t.jpg) White Hall (Hall No. 11) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/959/jpeg/19t.jpg) Labrador Tea (Ledum palustre, Russian names Bagulnik) in Lembolovo, 40 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 7, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/962/jpeg/07t.jpg) Arctic starflower (Trientalis europaea, Russian name Sedmichnik) near Toksovo, 10 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 11, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/971/jpeg/23t.jpg) Yellow bedstraw (Galium verum, Russian name Podmarennik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/01t.jpg) Goldmoss Stonecrop (Sedum acre, Russian name Ochitok) on a beach in Solnechnoe, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 30, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/968/jpeg/25t.jpg) Flower of wild strawberry (Russian name Zemlianika) east from Kuzmolovo, 7 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/959/jpeg/12t.jpg) Solomon s seal (Polygonatum odoratum, Russian name Kupena) in Lembolovo, 40 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 7, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/10t.jpg) Yellow Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris, Russian name Lnanka) on a beach near Sestroretsk, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 30, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/08t.jpg) Goldmoss Stonecrop (Sedum acre, Russian name Ochitok) on a beach near Beloostrov, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 30, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/07t.jpg) Knotted pearlwort (Sagina nodosa, Russian name Mshanka) on a beach near Beloostrov, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 30, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/971/jpeg/24t.jpg) Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis speciosa, Russian name Pikulnik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/971/jpeg/19t.jpg) Bud of an umbel inflorescence of Angelica sylvestris (Russian name Dudnik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/971/jpeg/17t.jpg) Umbellifer plants of Angelica sylvestris (Russian name Dudnik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/961/jpeg/08t.jpg) Blister sedge (Carex vesicaria, Russian name Osoka) in a swamp in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/961/jpeg/05t.jpg) Public bath house (Bani in Russian) on Nikolaevskaya Street in Lisiy Nos, a suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 9, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/972/jpeg/05t.jpg) Bladder campion (Oberna behem, Russian name Klopushka) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/972/jpeg/12t.jpg) Sneezewort yarrow (Achillea ptarmica, Russian name chihotnik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/972/jpeg/22t.jpg) Flowers of beach pea (Lathyrus maritimus, Russian name Cheena) in dunes of Solnechnoe, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 30, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/970/jpeg/21t.jpg) Evening primrose (Oenothera biennis, Russian name Oslinnik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../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/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/21t.jpg) Soviet kitchen (Kukhnia) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/459/jpeg/15t.jpg) Museum staff during a break for smoking (perekur, in Russian), view from a window of Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/962/jpeg/08t.jpg) Back lit Arctic starflower (Trientalis europaea, Russian name Sedmichnik) near Toksovo, 10 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 11, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/960/jpeg/09t.jpg) Polygonum bistorta (Gorets Zmeinyi in Russian) in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/959/jpeg/13t.jpg) Flowers of Solomon s seal (Polygonatum odoratum, Russian name Kupena) in Lembolovo, 40 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 7, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/961/jpeg/24t.jpg) False Lily-of-the-valley (Maianthemum bifolium, Russian name Maynik) in Kuzmolovo, 10 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 11, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/965/jpeg/07t.jpg) Monument of a Russian revolutioner Vladimir Lenin on a square in front of Finlandsky Train Station. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/12t.jpg) Emerging umbel inflorescence of Angelica sylvestris (Russian name Dudnik) in Posiolok, 45 miles south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 23, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/968/jpeg/24t.jpg) Early fruit of wild strawberry (Russian name Zemlianika) east from Kuzmolovo, 7 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 22, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/966/jpeg/17t.jpg) Wall hawkweed (Hieracium murorum, Russian name Yastrebinka) in Rozhdestveno, south from Saint Petersburg in Leningrad Region. Russia, June 19, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/13t.jpg) Opening parasol flower of Angelica sylvestris (Russian name Dudnik) in Posiolok, 45 miles south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 23, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/970/jpeg/23t.jpg) Emerging umbel inflorescence of Angelica sylvestris (Russian name Dudnik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/955/jpeg/19t.jpg) Camouflaged caterpillar of bagworm family (Lepidoptera: Psychidae, Russian name Meshochnitsa) in Menkovo, south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 1, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/971/jpeg/09t.jpg) Opening umbel inflorescence of Angelica sylvestris (Russian name Dudnik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/02t.jpg) Fragment of a painting (Nicolaes Maes, Old woman spinning, c. 1658) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/09t.jpg) Sculpture "Nestor Letopisets" (Nestor Chronicler) by Mark Antokolsky in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/961/jpeg/07t.jpg) Yellow flower of wood avens (Colewort, Geum urbanum, Russian name Gravilat) in Lisiy Nos, a suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 9, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/972/jpeg/04t.jpg) Emerging umbel flower of Hogweed (Heracleum sosnowskyi, Russian name Borshchevik) in fields west from Deviatkino. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 29, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/12t.jpg) Moneywort (Creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia, Russian name Verbeynik) in Dubki Park in Sestroretsk, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 30, 2011
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