Checklist of Objects
Former U.S. President
Richard Nixon visits the Central Market in Moscow.
Mikhail Metzel, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in June 1992.
Prints and Photographs Division (1)
Communists rally
on October Square in Moscow.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in 1992.
Prints and Photographs Division (2)
Vladimir Zhirinovsky,
head of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia,
attends a rock club opening.
Mikhail Metzel, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in November 1992.
Prints and Photographs Division (3)
Reindeer breeders
gather on the Taimyr Peninsula of Northern Siberia.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in March 1993.
Prints and Photographs Division (4)
A poster in the
town of Khatanga, Northern Siberia, displays a portrait of Vladimir
Lenin and proclaims: "We will attain the victory of communist
labor."
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in March 1993.
Prints and Photographs Division (5)
On Smolensk Square
in Moscow, supporters of the Supreme Soviet clash with police.
The police reported several officers wounded.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken on October 2, 1993.
Prints and Photographs Division (6)
During the storming
of the White House, home of Russia's legislature, soldiers from
the elite "Alpha" unit are sent in to conduct negotiations.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken on October 4, 1993.
Prints and Photographs Division (7)
Soldiers take up
positions on the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, Moscow.
Yevgeny Stetsko, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken on October 4, 1993.
Prints and Photographs Division (8)
As a brass band
plays in the background, a man displays personal possessions
for sale at an open-air market.
Yevgeny Stetsko, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken on October 4, 1993.
Prints and Photographs Division (9)
A woman prays in
the icon corner in the HIV-positive ward of the 2nd Hospital
for Infectious Diseases in Moscow.
Yevgeny Stetsko, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in 1993.
Prints and Photographs Division (10)
A young boy plays
on a tank at a memorial to the battle for Moscow during World
War II at Snegiri, a town in the Moscow region.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in 1993.
Prints and Photographs Division (11)
A woman demonstrates
support for Sergei Mavrodi, head of the MMM financial pyramid
scheme in which millions of Russians lost billions of rubles.
When Mavrodi was arrested, some investors blamed the government
for their losses and defended Mavrodi.
Yevgeny Stetsko, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in summer 1994.
Prints and Photographs Division (12)
A sailor celebrates
Navy Day in Gorky Park, Moscow.
Mikhail Metzel, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken August 1994.
Prints and Photographs Division (13)
MOST-Group head
Vladimir Gusinsky, who controls MOST-Bank, also owns Today newspaper
and the NTV television station.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in November 1995.
Prints and Photographs Division (14)
The accused awaiting
trial in the Butyrskaya prison in Moscow. Designed to hold just
one-half the number of inmates it actually houses, the prison
was last renovated in 1878.
Mikhail Metzel, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in June 1995.
Prints and Photographs Division (15)
A man wounded in
the first Chechen war adjusts to a prosthesis.
Yevgeny Stetsko, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in December 1995.
Prints and Photographs Division (16)
Workers assemble
a new statue of World War II hero Marshal Georgy Zhukov on Manezh
Square in downtown Moscow. The statue is the work of sculptor
Vyacheslav Klykov.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in 1995.
Prints and Photographs Division (17)
Veterans gather
in Moscow on Victory Day to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of the end of World War II.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken on May 9, 1995.
Prints and Photographs Division (18)
Members of a military
historical society attend a ceremony at the Church of All Saints
in Moscow to honor General Lavr Kornilov, a leader of anti-Bolshevik
forces during the 1917 Russian revolution.
Mikhail Metzel, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in April 1995.
Prints and Photographs Division (19)
Prime Minister Viktor
Chernomyrdin speaks to members of the State Duma, Russia's legislature.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in April 1996.
Prints and Photographs Division (20)
Excavations at Manezh
Square in downtown Moscow, in preparation for construction of
a new underground shopping mall, unearth a cemetery dating from
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in March 1996.
Prints and Photographs Division (21)
As is customary,
communist and Christian symbols are seen side by side at an opposition
rally.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in March 1996.
Prints and Photographs Division (22)
A family from Tajikistan,
a former Soviet republic in Islamic Central Asia, negotiates
the streets of Moscow.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in March 1996.
Prints and Photographs Division (23)
The ice breaks on
the Moscow River, with the newly-rebuilt Cathedral of Christ
the Savior in the background.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in March 1998.
Prints and Photographs Division (24)
Russian Pentecostalists
pray at a meeting at a Moscow stadium during the Festival of
World Happiness.
Yevgeny Stetsko, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in October 1997.
Prints and Photographs Division (25)
U.S. Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright meets Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy
II at the Danilov Monastery in Moscow.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in February 1997.
Prints and Photographs Division (26)
A view of the town of Verkhoturye
reborn as a center of Orthodox Christianity, in Russia's Ural
Mountain region.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in August 1997.
Prints and Photographs Division (27)
The Tetris Wax Museum
in Moscow displays busts of political leaders from the past.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in May 1997.
Prints and Photographs Division (28)
Lyubov Tumayeva from Nizhny Novgorod tells of
her son Sergei, who died in Chechnya.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in August 1997.
Prints and Photographs Division (29)
President Boris
Yeltsin pays his respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,
Moscow.
Evgeny Stetsko, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken on May 9, 1999.
Prints and Photographs Division (30)
The Tax Police hold
a news conference in Moscow.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in 1997.
Prints and Photographs Division (31)
A monk approaches
a Buddhist temple in Buryatia, Eastern Siberia.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in November 1998.
Prints and Photographs Division (32)
Members celebrate
eighty years of the Komsomol, the Communist youth organization,
on Poklonnaya Hill, Moscow.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in October 1998.
Prints and Photographs Division (33)
A man catches a
few winks on the Moscow River embankment.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in 1996.
Prints and Photographs Division (34)
Construction of
the new Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow nears completion.
The original building was demolished by Stalin in 1931.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in 1999.
Prints and Photographs Division (35)
Archpriest Fyodor
Sokolov performs the Orthodox rite called "going down to the
Jordan" by dipping a young member of his congregation into a
hole in the ice on the Moscow Canal. Sokolov had earlier blessed
the water as part of the celebration of Epiphany.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in January 2000.
Prints and Photographs Division (36)
A terrorist explosion
rips apart a nine-story apartment building, killing ninety-four
Muscovites.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken on September 9, 1999.
Prints and Photographs Division (37)
A cadet collapses
from heat and nerves during an induction ceremony of the Suvorov
Military Academy outside the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in
Moscow.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in August 1999.
Prints and Photographs Division (38)
Moscow prepares
for the 200th anniversary celebration of Russian poet
Alexander Pushkin's birth in 1799.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in May 1999.
Prints and Photographs Division (39)
Efforts by Russian
and German volunteers ensure that the remains of fallen German
soldiers in Russia's Kaliningrad province on the Baltic Sea will
be reburied in a military cemetery.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in September 2000.
Prints and Photographs Division (40)
Firemen exhausted
from rescue work rest after the explosion on Pushkin Square in
Moscow.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken on September 8, 2000.
Prints and Photographs Division (41)
Russian Orthodox
Patriarch Alexy II comforts children of sailors who perished
in the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in August 2000.
Prints and Photographs Division (42)
Young admirers of
Lavrenty Beria, director of the Soviet secret police who was
instrumental in carrying out the purges under Joseph Stalin,
display communist symbols in Volgograd.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in June 2000.
Prints and Photographs Division (43)
A View of Red Square
in Moscow.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in 1994.
Prints and Photographs Division (44)
A man fishes through
the ice in Kostroma, northeast of Moscow, against the backdrop
of the historic Ipatiev monastery.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken spring in 2000.
Prints and Photographs Division (45)
President Vladimir
Putin meets the press in the Kremlin.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in July 2001.
Prints and Photographs Division (46)
Young soldiers enjoy
Paratroopers Day on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in August 2001.
Prints and Photographs Division (47)
A winter street
scene in Moscow shows a person requesting alms.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in 2002.
Prints and Photographs Division (48)
Muscovites celebrate
spring with balloons on Manezh Square.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in April 2002.
Prints and Photographs Division (49)
Skinheads protest
the importation of American chicken in front of the McDonald's
restaurant on Pushkin Square in Moscow.
Vladimir Filonov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken in April 2002.
Prints and Photographs Division (50)
Veterans and their
families gather to celebrate Victory Day in Moscow in front of
the Bolshoy Theater.
Igor Tabakov, photographer.
Copyprint, original taken on May 9, 2002.
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