Celebration for the Coronation of Tsar Nicolas II. Arrival of the Cortege in Red Square, from Le Petit Journal, 31st May 1896 (coloured engraving) by Henri Meyer.
One of the first moving pictures filmed in the Soviet Union by a foreigner, Soviet Russia Through the Eyes of an American was filmed by Charles Edward Stuart, an internationally recognized American mining engineer engaged by the Soviets under their first five-year plan. The film is a travelogue...
In January 1932, the Monument Protection Department signed a verdict on the cathedral, rejecting the proposal to turn it into a museum, and agreeing to demolish it as a building of no historical or artistic value.
An attempt to disassemble the cathedral into building material was unsuccessful...
Mansion of the Tartar merchant, Karym Khamitov (1894), which is now being converted into a cultural center for the region's Tartar population, Tomsk, Russia