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Russia's mammoth museum celebrates
The Zoological Museum in St Petersburg, one of the world's largest, is marking its 100th anniversary with a nostalgic look back to better times. 
Now short of funds, like so many other Russian institutions, it was once showered with exhibits by the tsars and promoted for its educational value in Soviet times.
Some of the collections may be showing their age, but the museum with its world-famous mammoths still manages to impress, as Russia's NTV channel discovered when it visited.
These fox-cubs are as old as the museum itself
Replacing the fading butterflies will cost money
This whale skeleton takes weeks to clean
Dima the baby mammoth is a star attraction
Tsar Alexander III donated this Siberian tiger
The crocodiles are from Peter the Great's collection
Nearly two-thirds of exhibits are from tsarist times
The building holds its own in a spectacular city
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