Images Dated 8th August 2013

Stormy Sky at Sunset, in AngoulAªme, France

Monumental statue, tribute to Sadi Carnot by Raoul Verlet, in Angouleme, France.Storm brewing, taken at sunset, making the sky a colourful orange. The Statue of the Angel appearing to point to heaven

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Women's Battalion, St Petersburg, 1917 (b/w photo)

833385 Women's Battalion, St Petersburg, 1917 (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Women's battalions were established after the February Revolution, 1917. The second company of the Petrograd Women's Battalion took part in the defence of the Winter Palace on the night of 24th-25th October 1917 at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. All women's units were disbanded by the Military Council on 30th November that same year.); Calmann & King Ltd; Russian, out of copyright

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No 54 Nevsky Prospekt, corner of Malaya Sadovaya Street, St Petersburg

833398 No 54 Nevsky Prospekt, corner of Malaya Sadovaya Street, St Petersburg, early 1900s (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Showing the building as it was remodelled in 1882 by the architect Count P. Yu Syuszor. In 1872 the first copies of Marx's Das Capital to be sold in Russia were available here at Cherkesov's bookshop. The building also housed the photo Studio of Karl Bulla (1853-1929) from 1908.); Calmann & King Ltd; Russian, out of copyright

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