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Palace Square & beginning of Nevsky - photo c1909	Looking towards Nevsky from the Admiralty c1903	The start of Nevsky Prospekt House number 1 - c1911	Looking towards Palace Square c1909
Looking towards the Winter Palace from outside No. 2 1906	House number 2 from photo c1910	The Police Bridge looking south - 1904	Nevsky House No's 6 to 14 c1901
Wawelberg Commercial Bank (Nevsky 7/9) - 1912	Wawelberg Bank corner Gogol ul. - c1912	Wawelberg Bank photo-card_of 1912	Wawelberg Bank mailed 1914
Nevsky 10, 12, 14, 16 etc. c1910	Looking towards the Admiralty from outside Dom 13 in 1905	The Police Bridge looking south - 1904	Towards the Admiralty from No. 15 at the Police Bridge 1905
As the previous, between np 15 and 18 - used 1908	Towards the Admiralty from the Police Bridge -1902	Police Bridge, looking north used in 1915	Police Bridge, looking north used in 1917
Looking at Dom 18 from the Police Bridge c1902	Taken outside number 18 during 1909 (marked Petrograd 1914).	Eastwards from the Police Bridge, np18 & beyond c1903	Eastwards from the Police Bridge, np18 & beyond c1903
Eastwards from Police Bridge, np18 & beyond c1902	Very animated photocard of Dutch Reform church c1906	Similar view of the Dutch church taken in 1906	A less cluttered view of the Dutch Church c1910
Horse trams outside Nevsky bldgs 22 & 24 - c1905	Arrival of President Loubet 1902 (crowd facing np 26 & 28)	Arrival of President Loubet 1902 Not President Foure!	Ploschad Kazanskaya without the crowds 1906
Restaurant Dominique (Nevsky 24) - 1913	Trams crossing Kazansky Bridge c1902	No.28 right, was demolished to become the Singer Building	Similar view with flowers mailed 1910
Celebrating 200 yrs of SPb outside Nevsky 26 & 28	Nevsky by Singer Building c1912	As above with a night effect sent during 1900	The Singer Building (Dom Knigi) c1906
Looking towards the Singer building & beyond to the Church on Spilled blood c1910	The Singer building from across the square of Kazan Sobor. Card used 1913	Looking across Ploshchad Kazanskaya to numbers 26 & 28 Nevsky - c1913	Discount-Loan Bank and the Philharmonic Chamber Hall (Nevsky 30) - c1903
The Singer Building mailed 1917	Colour tinted copy of above mailed in 1913	Kazansky Bridge mailed during 1908	Kazan Cathedral and the Singer Building - mailed 1910
Kazan Cathedral pre 1900	Kazansky Fountain c1904	On the western steps of Kazan Cathedral around 1913	From Kazan Cathedral looking across Nevsky used 1914
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan - c1911	The less familiar side of the Cathedral - used 1915.	Orlovsky's statue of Kutuzov. Card used 1905.	Barclay de Tolley monument c1906.
A busy sidewalk opposite the Singer Building - c1906.	Looking east across Kazan Sq. c1900	A busy day between Dom 27 and Singer Building on right 1906	Looking from the Duma steps across to the sunny side
Photocard c1910 of Lutheran church between No.s 22 & 24	St. Catherine's Catholic church 1903	Saint Catherines again in the summer sun of 1911	View from the Municipal Duma Tower - c1910
Dutch Reform Church c1911	Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan used during 1907	St. Catherine Catholic church 1907	Barclay de Tolley statue c1912
Hotel de Ville better known as the Duma Building c1904.	The Municipal Duma building c1905	The same again only colour tinted c1906	The tower decked out for the visit of President Loubet 1902
Municipal Duma building pre 1900	Municipal Duma building c1901	Municipal Duma building mailed in 1900	Prepared for President Loubet 1902

Base of the Duma steps c1909	Christ the Savior Chapel (destroyed in 1929) 1912	Portico and Chapel c1900	A Special Day! special issue c1900
Newspaper agents at base of the Duma c1909	Christ the Savior Chapel (destroyed in 1929) 1912	The chapel & the portico of the Feather Bed Line exchange 1913	Gostinny Dvor and Chapel of Spas Nerukotvorny c1909
The Grand Hotel Europe at Nevsky 36 around 1902.	Mikhaylovskaya ulitsa and the Grand Hotel Europe c1900	Looking east along Nevsky with Hotel D' Europe on the left 1907 .	The Hotel d'Europe taken around 1907
Mikhailovskaya ulitsa c1900	Mikhailovskaya ulitsa used 1902	Grand Hotel Europe mailed 1916	Grand Hotel Europe mailed 1911
A Hotel Europa Restaurant sent in 1914	Krysha roof restaurant Hotel Europe - 1910	Hotel Europe roofgarden 1910	another of the roofgarden 1910
Building 38 as it was in 1903 on this used postcard	Gostinny Dvor area from a Karl Bulla photograph c1911	More of the same from this popular corner c1908	.....and yet another ground level view from Gostinny Dvor corner
Volga-Kama Commercial Bank (Nevsky 38) - 1903	Across from Gostinny Dvor c1907	A military parade passing Nevsky 46 in 1902	Probably the same 1902 parade & for French President Loubet
An aerial view looking east from the Duma tower c1907	A coloured image akin to the previous card c1907	Another view looking east from the Duma tower c1907	The Passage at No. 48 mailed 1903
The Passage at No. 48 on a Karl Bulla photocard c1912	Trams outside the Passage c1912	A hand tinted card showing the Passage c1908	Coloured view of the Passage from a different angle c1907
Yet another looking towards the Passage c1909	The Passage interior mailed during 1902	St Catherine's Armenian Church c1900	View from the Passage towards the Duma tower u1909
Gostinny Dvor pre 1900	Gostinny Dvor c1901	Relatively quiet street! c1909	A colour copy of above c1909
Looking along the Dvor from Sadovaya corner c1902	A card mailed in 1908 showing strollers passing the Dvor	A similar view to previous card but with taller trees c1912	Looking west along the main facade of Gostinny Dvor 1908
Showing the individually numbered stalls of G-Dvor 1903	Between Dvor & 'Passage' used during 1907	Looking along Gostinny towards Duma, as used in 1914	Probably the most common Nevsky postcard view. 1911
A very animated view 1903	.... and slightly more animated c1903	Another of the popular view c1909	Activity on the corner of Sadovaya Street around 1910
Looking along Sadovaya Street in the snow. May 24th 1908	May snow on Nevsky by Gostinny Dvor 1908	Greeting the new trams as mailed early 1907	A parade April 4th 1917
Looking west past the IPL and Gostinny Dvor 1903	Sadovaya corner c1908	Looking at the Schroder building number 52 - card used 1906	Another view of Dom Schroder from the library corner c1900
To the RNL, looking west past Gostinny Dvor 1903	Looking across Nevsky from Sadovaya on a card used 1906	Nevsky 52, 54, and the old 56 c1901	A modified print of above c1906
Russo-Japanese War parade 1905	The Imperial Public Library c1903	The Imperial Public Library c1909	Bibliotheque Imperial, used in 1915
The Imperial Public Library from by the theatre in 1912	Looking from the top of the Passage over IPL c1905	Imperial Bibliotheque 1896	The Imperial Public Library as used in 1913
A cameo of Catherine II mailed 1905	Towards Anichkov Night effect c1908/09	View from the library looking towards Anichkov Palace 1909	The House of N. P. Basin used in 1902
200 year Jubilee celebrations at The Passage 1903	International Commercial Bank Spb branch - np58 - u1902	Severnaya (Northern) Bank np62 - used 1903	View of the Sadovaya Street crossing in 1913
The only monument to Catherine the Great in SPb	Looking over the square to the Alexandra theatre 1902	Mikhail Mikeshin's monument to Catherine II c1906	as previous with a blue tint c1906
Monument to Catherine II in Ostrovsky Square, used 1908	Monument to Catherine II in Ostrovsky Square, used 1915	Theatre, Cath II & Basin house 1902	The view from the top of the Eliseieff building c1913
Photochrome card made from a 1896 photo	Silhouette of the Catherine II monument c1904	Silhouette of the Catherine II monument 1902	Theatralnaya ulitsa (ul Zodchego Rossi) - c1915
The Alexandrinsky (or Pushkin) Theatre c1903	Another view of the Pushkin theatre taken around 1909	A similar view in colour mailed 1912	From the theatre past Ekaterina towards Nevsky c1915
Dom Eliseieff at Nevsky 56 around 1909	Dom Elisieva and the Farce Theatre used 1910	The Yeliesiev building on a card mailed in 1915	Looking west from the Anichkov pavilion around 1906
Looking from the Yeliesiev bldg towards Anichkov Palace c1903	Looking from Yeliesiev's bldg towards Anichkov Palace c1908	Looking from Yeliesiev's bldg towards Anichkov Palace c1908	Looking from Yeliesiev's bldg towards Anichkov Palace c1909

Tram '1069' outside building 64 sometime around 1909	Anichkov Palace northern wing c1900	A colour version of the previous card sent in 1915	Anichkov Palace pre 1900
Nevsky between the Cabinet & number 66 - used 1908	Anichkov Bridge to Singer Bldg 1907	Anichkov bridge and palace pre 1900	A vintage view of Upper Nevsky from the Anichkov Bridge.
Palais Anitchkin on a nice card dated 1901	Anichkov Palace & Cabinet Building on card used 1905	Fontanka corner at Nevsky 66 c1909	Fontanka corner at Nevsky 66 mailed during 1910
Klodt Horse Tamer 1 on Anichkov Bridge NE corner	Klodt Horse Tamer 2 on Anichkov Bridge SW corner	Klodt Horse Tamer 3 on Anichkov Bridge NW corner	Klodt Horse Tamer 4 on Anichkov Bridge SE corner
Anichkov Bridge looking North mailed in 1918	Looking across Anichkov Bridge c1909	Looking across Anichkov Bridge towards the palace c1917	Anichkov Bridge and on the right, the old building No. 68
Anichkov Bridge looking North mailed in 1918	Anichkov Bridge looking South c1903	Anichkov Bridge looking North used 1912	Horse Tamer at NW corner 1903
Anichkov Bridge looking South c1912	Looking south - coloured c1912	Horse tram crossing Anichkov Bridge in 1903	Looking over Anichkov Bridge towards building 66 - 1890s
Policemen posing by the SW corner monument c1903	Posers at the NW corner of the bridge around 1903	SW corner of the bridge towards Nevsky building 66 c1903.	Looking across the Fontanka towards 66 Nevsky c1903
Floating fish shop published 1903	Fontanka quay at the Anichkov Bridge c1900	The Cabinet building and Anichkov Bridge sent in 1906	Tinted pc of the Fontanka and Anichkov Bridge c1910
Palace of G.D. Sierge & Trinity-Sergius Lavra - 1905	Belosselsky-Belozersky palace & Trinity-Sergius Lavra - c1905	Belosselsky-Belozersky palace mailed in 1902	Looking over Anichkov Bridge towards the SE of Nevsky c1903
This is NOT the Anichkov Palace as printed on this c1897 card!	Belosselsky-Belozersky palace around 1900	Another of Belosselsky-Belozersky palace around 1900	The Merchant Society at Nevsky 70 - c1902
The Twelfth Gymnasium in 1904 in the old building #68	Nevsky 60 up to Nevsky 80 1899	np60 to np80 on an embossed card used in 1899	np76-78 junc Liteiny Prospekt c1915
A sunny Actors House seen from Liteiny Prospekt 1906	Nevsky 90-92-94-96 and onwards used 1911	Nevsky betweem No's 63 & 94 used 1909	Nevsky between No's 63 & 94 hand tinted c1906
A ground floor general store at Nevsky 100 - 1903	Nevsky 102 after a 5th floor was added in 1908	The since destroyed Hotel Ermitage c1902	The end of upper Nevsky c1909
Looking across Znamenskaya c1909	Similar to previous image but hand coloured and used 1915	Grand Hotel du Nord from an image taken around 1903	The Grand Hotel du Nord c1909, now the Oktyabrskaya Hotel
The Great Northern Hotel photocard c1900	The hotel which became the Oktiabraskaya seen here c1910	Ploshchad Znamenskaya around 1897	The same view as the previous but in B&W;
Snamensky Place taken around c1912	1910 view looking across Znamenskaya to Nevsky pr	Znamenskaya in 1909 after unveiling of Alex III statue	The new monument 23rd May 1909
Across Znamenskaya Ploshchad towards upper Nevsky - u1912	Znamenskaya pl mailed during 1913	The Church of the Sign which was demolished in 1940	Another view of the station c1907
A superb c1900 card of the Nikolaievskya Vokzal	Looking south across the square c1912	A traffic-less square c1913	Guarding a Czar c1909
Alexander III monument shortly after unveiling in 1909	A hand tinted card of the Alex III monument c1909	A card used in 1915 shows a traffic-less square	A guarded monument on a card mailed in 1912
Alexander III in front of hotel 1909	Alexander III monument c1910	Alexander III monument c1910	A photo card of the Alex III monument c1915
An image c1914 showing the only bend on the whole street	House 158 towards the Lavra c1908	A. Nevsky Home For The Poor c1903	Tramvai outside Nevsky 180-182 c1909
Ploshchad Alexander Nevskogo c1900	Looking across Ploshchad Alexander Nevskogo c1908	Alexander Nevsky Lavra 1914	The main gateway to Alexander Nevsky Lavra used 1904
Inside the Lavra ensemble c1912	Passage to Catherdral inside the Lavra - c1900	Holy Trinity Cathedral inside Alexander Nevsky Lavra c1900	The Holy Trinity Cathedral Nevsky Lavra 1916
St Theodore church in the Nevsky Lavra 1903	Alexander Nevsky Lavra mailed in 1907	The Nevsky (Lavra) Monastery sent 1903	The Holy Trinity Cathedral inside Nevsky Lavra 1906

These images are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before 1923; plus their copyright has also expired in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author/photographer plus 50 years. These images are also in the public domain in Russia according to paragraph 1 of article 6 of Law No. 231-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18 2006

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