The Decembrist UprisingVasily Timm

The Decembrists on Senate SquareKarl Kolman, 1830s

Nicholas I with RetinueFranz Krüger, 1835

Cuirassiers of Nicholas IFranz Krüger, 1839

Russian Guards at Tsarskoe SeloFranz Krüger, 1841

Russian Guards at PeterhofFranz Krüger, 1853

Nicholas IYegor Boatman, 1849

Nicholas IFranz Krüger, 1852

Statue of Nicholas I, Petersburg

Alexander von BenckendorffGeorge Dawe, 1822

Battle of SinopIvan Aivazovsky, 1853

Siege of Sevastopol (1855)Grigory Shukaev, 1856

Battle of Sevastopol, Panorama DetailFranz Roubaud, 1905

The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854William Simpson, 1855

The Charge of the Light BrigadeRichard Caton Woodville, 1894

Cannon to the right of them,Cannon to the left of them,Cannon in front of themVolley'd and thunder'd;Storm'd at with shot and shell,Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of HellRode the six hundred.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1854

Embarkation of the Sick at BalaklavaWilliam Simpson, 1855

Valley of Death (Balaklava)Roger Fenton, 1855

Fenton’s Photography Van in the Crimean War

Crimean War Photograph

Huts and Warm Clothes for the ArmyWilliam Simpson, 1855

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Nicholas I Takes on All of EuropeHonoré Daumier, 1855

Peter TchaikovskyNikolai Kuznetsov, 1893