Gallery

The passenger ship Igor Stravinsky. River port, St Petersburg

Burmese peacocks in an apple orchard

Imereti

Georgian yachtsmen leaving port for the open sea.Calais

Sofiya Andreevna Afanasieva, translator and connoisseur of Japanese poetry, relaxes in Sinjuko Gyoen National Garden after speaking in Tokyo University

Hedgehogs. The border between Pskov Region and Estonia

A concert given by the Yerevan Philharmonic Orchestra in Milan. Beethoven, Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra

Nocturnal tryst

At the ancestral home. Discussing about the present and the future

A long way from home

Home for Christmas. After a long absence Oxford student Rosa France visits the land of her birth. Australia, New South Wales

Incident on tour Upon concluding its performances in Tver, the circus gathers together its equipment and heads for the station. The circus’s young kangaroo falls behind the main party and mixes up the railway station with the local municipal baths, which are situated nearby on the station square. Leaving an indignant security guard trailing in his wake, the kangaroo rushes through all the compartments in search of a way out…finally emerges onto the street, and, catching up with his colleagues, manages to find his place one minute before the train is due to leave

A task for springtime. Hunters Alyamak and Shashuk, who are brothers, inspect Ulanaska Island. Aleutian Island

Gentlemen watching ducks. Hampstead Heath, London

Flying above the places of her youth

Hunters and their wives ride to their nephew’s wedding

Pheasants. A present from the Emperor of Japan to the Russian embassy

A walk along the Fontanka Embankment

Ethnographer Katya Dyakonova questions her new friend Ichinmey about the local customs. Tuva

Opening of a new season. Alexandriya Park, Peterhof

Mosquitoes. Arthur, Edward, Antonina, Eleonora, and rapscallion George

Moscow to Abakan train

‘Weightlessness as the manifestation of happiness’, an unpublished article by Angelina Alexandrovna Markelova, senior research fellow at the Institute of the Arctic and Antarctic

Staff at the Faculty of Biology at St Petersburg University studying aquatic life in Pskov Region. Lake Samro, late September

The Gros family. Tasting at Château de Châteauneuf, Burgundy