The Fu in ruins, after the Siege of the Legations, Peking

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n069. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: '34: Russians on guard'. Digitised from a negative made for a copy print. Emulsion peeling off the negative. The Fu was a Chinese palace (Su Wang Fu, owned by Prince Su), where thousands of Chinese Christian converts had sheltered during the seige.  Russian soldiers on guard among the ruins. Photograph by Yamamoto Sanshichiro.