Images

Unknown date; contained in folder annotated 'WW2 photos'. 

Small undated photo portrait of IB, looking off camera. Dressed in coat and hat. Print is held inside metallic frame.

Mendel Berlin in Riga, 1904. Published in Berlin: A Life.

The earliest known photo of Berlin, Riga, 1910. Published in Berlin: A Life; detail used in Book of Isaiah, plate 1

Photograph, taken in Dubulti, Jurmula, near Riga, in 1911, of what appears to be a Volshonok family wedding. Back row: the first figure to the right of the door is Alexander Siskind Volshonok, uncle to Isaiah Berlin. Second row from back, 5th and 6th figures from the left, are Ida (Berlin’s maternal aunt, née Volshonok) and her husband Yitzhak Samunov. In front of them is Berlin’s great-uncle Victor Avigdor Volshonok, with his daughter Zinaida on his knee, and to the right of the central couple possibly Berlin’s grandmother, Rodsia-Freude Volshonok, née Zuckerman.

Portrait of Isaiah Berlin in winter coat and hat, probably taken in Riga c.1915.

Detail published in The Book of Isaiah, plate 11, and on the back jacket of Michael Ignatieff's biography of Berlin.

Berlin in St Petersburg, 1917. Published in Berlin: A Life, plate 2; published in Book of Isaiah, plate 12.

Berlin probably in St Petersburg between 1917 and 1921; published in Book of Isaiah, plate 13.

Marie Berlin with two sisters, Maria and Evgenia, and their mother Shifra.