Architecture and built environment (7220 Subjects)
Panoramic view of Istanbul, with Topkapi Palace, Hagia Sophia and the mosques of Sultan Ahmed I and Süleyman I.
View of Seraglio Point from the embassy of the Netherlands at Pera district.
View of Sinop at the Black Sea.
Plan of Topkapi Palace, Istanbul.
The temple of Hephaestus, Athens.
The fortress of Königstein at the town of Königstein, Saxony, Germany.
The vacation cottage of Johann Jacob Rieter, Swiss manufacturer of woolen textiles.
Panoramic view of Athens from Areopagus. On the left, the temple of Hephaestus. On the right, the monument of Philopappus.
View of the walls of Baghdad. Down to the 19th century, Baghdad was often, yet erroneously, identified with ancient Babylon. Recent excavations showed, however, that Babylon stood on the opposite shore of Tigres river.
Example of Kalmyk settlement.
View of Yerevan, Armenia.
View of the old town of Kandahar, with the fortress of Shah Hussain Hotaki.
Gymnosophists near temples in India. 6: The author and a Dutch officer explore the lodgings of an itinerant fakir.
Map of the eastern coast of Vietnam (kingdom of Tonkin).
Theatre production at Hanoi (today in Vietnam) in the presence of the king of Tonkin and his court.
Top: The king of Tonkin (Vietnam) exits the palace. Bottom: The king of Tonkin (Vietnam) leaves for war.
Funeral procession of the king of Tonkin (Vietnam).
Funerary procession of the king of Tonkin (Vietnam).
Example of rural settlement in Russia.
Window of typical Russian rural house. Warm stockings worn by the women of Valday province, Russia.
Petrovsky Palace at the entrance of Moscow. The palace was built in the era of Catherine the Great and was the penultimate stopover of Russian emperors in their journey from Saint Petersburg (then capitall of the Russian empire) to Moscow.
The entrance to Moscow by the route of Saint Petersburg.
Map of Moscow.
View of Saint Basil's church, Moscow.
Ivan the Great Bell Tower, next to the Assumption cathedral at Cathedral Square in Moscow.
The Great Bell of Moscow or Tsar Bell at Kremlin.
Map of Kremlin, Moscow, with the main sights and monuments.
View of the first palace of the Tsars at Kremlin, Moscow. In the foreground one of the now-lost monasteries of Kremlin.
View of Moscow from Bersenevsk area.
View of the city of Tula, south of Moscow.