Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization

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Russia: Maps

The Russian Federation

Russia Today

European Russia

Imperial Russia

U.S.S.R

U.S.S.R. Republics

U.S.S.R: Time Zones

The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain, Detail

Iron Curtain, Cartoon

Iron Curtain in Moravia

Iron Curtain

Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall

Soviet Population Map

Geographical Map

Temperature Map

Russian Expansion

Geography

Volga River

Dniepr River in Kiev

Ural Mountains

Birch Forest

Steppe

Siberia

Waterfall in Siberia

Taiga

Polar Bear

Elk

Marten

Moscow

Moscow Map

St. Basil’s Cathedral (1555-61)

St. Basil’s Cathedral

The Moscow Kremlin

The Moscow Kremlin

Plan of Moscow Kremlin

Cathedral of the Assumption, Kremlin, 1326

Lenin Mausoleum

GUM (1893)

History Museum (1890s)

The Arbat

Novodevichy Monastery

Cathedral of Christ Our Savior

Moscow State University (1953)

Moscow Subway Map

Arbatskaya Station (1953)

Mayakovskaya Station (1938)

Kievskaya Station (1954)

Petersburg

Nevsky Prospekt

Petersburg Canal

The Bronze Horseman

Peter and Paul Fortress, Early 18th Century

The Hermitage Museum, 18th Century

Smolny Cathedral, 1764

Church of Four Saviors on Spilt Blood, 1907

The House of Peter the Great, Early 18th Century

The Summer Palace, Early 18th Century

Ancient Russian Towns

Smolensk

Smolensk Kremlin

Yaroslavl

Pskov

Medieval Pskov Kremlin, ReconstructionGennady Mokeyev

Kostroma

Housing

Russian House, 6th Century

Russian House

Russian House

Russian House, 9th Century

Log Shell Frame

Russian Peasant Stove

19th Century House

19th Century House

Dacha

Dacha

Kievan Rus

Kievan Rus

Kievan Rus, Detail

Kievan Rus, 11th Century