Images

The Red Army's liberation of Yelnya from Axis occupation during the Battle of Smolensk in 1943 (August) during the Second World War (1939-45).

A 1939 photograph of the German general Günther von Kluge (1882-1944). (German Federal Archives)

A 1945 photograph of the Soviet Union's Red Army Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky (1897-1968).

A gold mohur coin issued by Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-28) bearing a portrait of his Father, Akbar. The coin was issued in 1605, the first year of Jahangir's reign. The inscription in Arabic next to the portrait translates as 'Allahu...

Dr. Faustus meets the Devil, a scene from Christopher Marlowe's play Dr. Faustus. Image from Wellcome Images.

Jupiter kissing Ganymede; by Wilhelm Böttner, c. 1780. Oil on canvas, currently in a private art collection in Berlin, Germany.

The emperor Bajazeth is imprisoned by the Turkic conqueror Timur (called Tamburlaine in the play by Christopher Marlowe). By Andrea Celesti, circa 1700.

King Edward II of England (r. 1307-1327) saunters with his favorite Piers Gaveston as the English nobles look on with contempt. Painting by Marcus Stone, 1872.

A statue of King Henry V of England (r. 1413-1422), designed by John Blakely, 1990. Near Stratford-upon-Avon, West Midlands.

A statue of James II of England (r. 1685-1688) as a Roman Emperor, designed by Peter van Dievoet and Laurens van der Meulen, 1686. Trafalgar Square, London.