Collection of Eight Russian Cultural and Intellectual Figures CDVs, 19th Century. Assembled collection of eight 19th-century Russian cartes de visite portraits depicting Ivan Aivazovsky, Ivan Nikitin, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova, Lev Mey, Sergey Solovyov, N. Gudinshtein, Mikhail Pogodin, and Ivan Sechenov - major figures of Imperial Russian art, literature, history, and science. Primarily issued by Wesenberg, 55 Fontanka, St. Petersburg, with several retaining period handwritten identifications to the versos. Each approximately 4 x 2.5 in.