This site
is dedicated to old photos of Vilnius. The site's Gallery
contains photos of Vilnius for about 100 years, beginning from the
second half of XIX century until the second half of XX century. There
are a tons of modern photographs of different cities on the Internet.
But it is not easy to find old photos for three reasons: first of all,
there are not many of old pictures, secondly, they are usually
scattered across different sites, and thirdly, some resources on the
Internet simply disappear: yesterday some URL existed but today the
site is no longer available. For that we can blame the nature of the
Internet sites: on the one hand they are easily accessible, but on the
other hand, most of them if don't bring any income live short life: 3-5
years. I can not guarantee that this site will live longer. I'm just
trying to keep in one place all the photos that can be found by me. The
Gallery's pages
carries over 4100 photos now. If you don't like this site and/or
the Gallery
just consider this site like a metasite containing links to other old
photos of Vilnius resources.
Old Photos of Vilnius
Old images of Vilnius
Старые фотографии Вильнюса
Senos Vilniaus nuotraukos.
Old Vilna
Senasis Vilnius
Vilno
Wilna
Старые Вильнюсские фотографии
Старые улицы Вильнюса
Vilniaus seni pastatai
Vilniaus senos gatves
Old Vilnius bridges
Jewish Vilna
Vilnius floods
Vilnius Churches
Vilnius suburbs
Vilnius old Movies
Vilnius old films
Vilnius old photos
Vilnius old pictures
Vilnius 1323-1923
Stare zdjęcia z Wilna
Wilno
History of Vilnius for a hundred years
of "old photos era", not to mention about the full history of the city,
perhaps is uniq. In these hundred years it had been belonged to
different countries: Russia, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and Soviet
Union. And because of that there were a lot of changed in population
demography (see Census Table), street
names, belonging and name of the buildings. The central street of
the town was called: St.George avenue, A. Mickevich street, Stalin
avenue, Lenin avenue and avenue of Gediminas. The main palace of the
city - Presidential Palace now - first (in "before
photography" era) was the Episcopal palace, then Governor-general's
palace, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the Lithuanian
news agency, Representational palace, House of a Soviet Army officers,
the Palace of Arts. This situation complicates a choice of photo
descriptions, and I tried, when it was possible, to save signatures, which
accompanied photos in places where the photos were taken from.
Click at the following link in order to watch photos:
Old Photos of Vilnius Old images of Vilnius Старые фотографии Вильнюса Senos Vilniaus nuotraukos. Old Vilna Senasis Vilnius Vilno Wilna Старые Вильнюсские фотографии Старые улицы Вильнюса Vilniaus seni pastatai Vilniaus senos gatves Old Vilnius bridges Jewish Vilna Vilnius floods Vilnius Churches Vilnius suburbs Vilnius old Movies Vilnius old films Vilnius old photos Vilnius old pictures Vilnius 1323-1923 Stare zdjęcia z Wilna Wilno Old Photos of Vilnius Old images of Vilnius Старые фотографии Вильнюса Senos Vilniaus nuotraukos. Old Vilna Senasis Vilnius Vilno Wilna Старые Вильнюсские фотографии Старые улицы Вильнюса Vilniaus seni pastatai Vilniaus senos gatves Old Vilnius bridges Jewish Vilna Vilnius floods Vilnius Churches Vilnius suburbs Vilnius old Movies Vilnius old films Vilnius old photos Vilnius old pictures Vilnius 1323-1923 Stare zdjęcia z Wilna Wilno