Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs: 1890-1914

Hardcover, illustrated dj, big 4to, 311 pp., photographs in B/W. Foreword by James Billington who writes about St. Petersburg (Leningrad): '(...) this unique city during this Indian summer of its imperial past'.
On the cover: Tsar Nicholas II with the tsarina, Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt) in the late 1890s.
The reigns of the Romanov tsars:
► Mikhail, 1613-1645
► Alexei, 1645-1676
► Fiodor III, 1676-1682
► Ivan V and Peter I, ruled jointly 1682-1696 (under regent Sophia, 1682-1689)
► Peter I (ruled alone), 1696-1725
► Catherine I, 1725-1727
► Peter II, 1727-1730
► Anna Ioannovna, 1730-1740
► Ivan VI, 1740-1741
► Elizabeth, 1741-1761
► Peter III, 1761-1762
► Catherine II, 1762-1796
► Paul I, 1796-1801
► Alexander I, 1801-1825
► Nicholas I, 1825-1855
► Alexander II, 1855-1881
► Alexander III, 1881-1894
► Nicholas II, 1894-1917