Moscow – 1908
Lastly, because I only just saw this over at BoingBoing, a video from 1908 of Moscow in the snow. It’s beautiful and very slightly haunting – with cheerfully marching guards with their bayonetted guns, giant cannons next to the palace walls (and I do mean giant) to people skiing through the park or making their way across a busy, horse-drawn carriage filled street.
It looks so cold, and yet quite friendly. A step back in time to see the world when Victorian science fiction was being written, when Verne was still new and the moon so very far away.