Moscow: Did you mean...?

This carcass of a young woolly mammoth, nicknamed 'Yuka', is on display in Moscow after being found in an astonishingly good condition in Siberia. It died around 39,000 years ago and was between 6 and 11 years old.

Painting by Vasily Polenov (1882). Oil on canvas. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

An 1892 photograph of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) when he was a student (far right) at the Moscow Conservatory. With him are Anton Arensky (1861-1906), seated in the middle, and Lev Conus and Nikita Morozov.

The central pillar of the Palace of Facets in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. The Palace of Facets was completed in 1492. Photo taken in 2007.

Portrait of Michel Ney (1769-1815), a French marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). After distinguishing himself in the War of the First Coalition, Ney rose through the ranks and was appointed as one of the original...

An 1888 oil on jute painting, In the Café (aka Night Café at Arles), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Created while living in Arles, southern France, with Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), who painted a very similar...

Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow (r. 1462-1505), picture from The Tsar's Titular, 1672. Scanned from Russian book RUSSIA: Complete Encyclopedic Illustrated Reference Book, OLMA-PRESS, 2002.

An 1893 oil-on-canvas portrait by Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

A c. 1874-77 oil on canvas painting, Dancer in Front of a Window (aka Dancer at the Photographer's Studio), by Edgar Degas (1834-1917), the French impressionist painter. The photographer's presence in the scene is indicated only by one leg...

A protome of an ancient Hellenic deity created from clay. Samos, Greece, c. 525 BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)