A photo blog with colour pictures from pre-revolutionary Russia:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/comment-page-4/
A website with some ancient maps:
http://www.helmink.com/
A nifty collection of newspapers from days gone by:
http://www.historybuff.com/archives/tree.cgi
