The photographs in this rich collection of timeless images captures St. Petersburg - the capital of Imperial Russia - in its heyday in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Tsarist Russia is shown as the personification of all that is splendid in a disappearing world, a world of unimaginable wealth and concentrated power.
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