History of Moscow in pictures.

• History of Moscow in brief.
• Alexei Marshakov (email: marshako@aoe.vt.edu) provides several pictures illustrating different eras in the history of Moscow. Here are links to some of them:
  1. Bilding the first wooden Moscow walls in 1156.
  2. The limestone walls were built in XIV century.
  3. View on Moscow during Ivan The Terrible era (XVI century)
  4. Red Square in the XVII century.
  5. Birds view towards the southwest from modern Kremlin.
• History of Moscow from its foundation (1147 a.c.) up to the middle of XVIII century is narrated by the Seanet Corporation server. Copyright ©1995, 96 Seanet Corporation. Send comments to: webmaster@www.russia.net
• Russian Empire, 1895-1910. Pictures of Moscow. Photographs from stereoscopic negatives in the Keystone-Mast Collection. They are presented by California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside (comments: edward.earle@ucr.edu )
  • Cathedral of the Saviour viewed from the Kremlin, Moscow. This cathedral was destroyed in 1930s.
  • Hall of St. Andrew as seen from the Hall of St. Alexander, Great Kremlin Palace, Moscow.
  • New Trading Rows on the Red Square ("GUM" in Soviet era). Note the position of the K.Minin&Pozharski monument.
  • Pictures of other cities.
• Here you can look at the small collection of old postcards: Moscow in the beginning of XX century presented by Sergei Senin. (His server is located in Portsmouth, UK)
• The World War II: Nazi's Bombing of Moscow on July 26, 1941 (copyright TIME Inc.)

• Civil War in Moscow, October 2-3, 1993.

• Amy Kunhard's collection of slides. She is a photographer at Topeka Capital-Journal. Her slides document the life of ordinary people in Moscow, June of 1995. This slide show is a part of the Treasures of the Czars Exhibition in the Kanzas International Museum.
• Moscow in October 1995. The photo diary of an one day in Moscow presented by Andrei Sebrant (asebrant@glas.apc.org )
• Moscow in November-December 1995, photo-exhibition constructed by Andrei Sebrant.

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