Images

Château of Amboise during the Renaissance, showing the castle as it was during the reign of Henry III of France (1574-1589), illustration by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Only the buildings shown in black can still be...

Located on the second floor of the Château d'Amboise, Amboise, Loire Valley, France, the Orléans Room, which was once used by Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans (reign 1830-1848), is decorated in the 'Empire' style...

King Charles VIII of France (1470-1498), oil on panel portrait after an original by artist Jean Perréal (c. 1455 to c. 1528), 16th century. Musée de Condé, Chantilly.

A 1919 photograph of Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya, aka Catherine Breshkovsky (1844-1934) who was an activist and member of the Socialist Revolutionaries but had worked for greater women’s rights from the 1860s to the Russian...

A photograph of the Russian revolutionary Maria Spiridonova (1885-1941). Spiridonova led the Left Socialist Revolutionaries (Internationalists) and was elected as chair at the Second Congress of Peasants’ Soviets and of the Constituent...

A 1920 photograph of Inessa Armand (1874-1920), a socialist revolutionary and promoter of womens's rights in Russia in the early 20th century.

A c. 1900 photograph of the Russian socialist revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952). Kollontai served as a minister in the Soviet government of Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924).

An 1890s photograph of Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) a Russian socialist revolutionary and wife of Vladmir Lenin (1870-1924).

A 1917 photograph of the Russian Women’s Death Battalion and their leader Maria ‘Yashka’ Bochkareva (1889-1920), a Russian war hero. Also present is the British activist for women's rights Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928...

A photograph of Maria ‘Yashka’ Bochkareva (1889-1920), a Russian war hero and leader the Women’s Death Battalion. (Library of Congress)