Images

A 1908 photograph of the French composer Claude Debussy (1962-1918). Atelier Nadar, Paris. (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Widukind, statue by Uwe Oswald, Goldenstedt, Germany.

Charlemagne receives the submission of Widukind at Paderborn, oil on canvas by Ary Scheffer, c. 1840. Palace of Versailles.

A map illustrating the fluctuation of powers in the Roman Empire during 69 CE (also known as The Year of the Four Emperors,) a turbulent period in Roman history that involved the rapid succession of Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian as...

Robert Guiscard and Count Roger, the oldest and youngest Hauteville brothers of Tancred de Hauteville's second marriage. Often working together, they both played major roles in the Norman conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily during the 11th...

Political map of southern Italy c. 1112, showing the extent of the kingdom in 1154 upon Roger II of Sicily's death.

An 1883 photograph of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

The grave of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Tikhvin cemetery, St. Petersburg.

The last home of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). He lived here in Klin, outside Moscow, from 1884. Today, the house is a museum dedicated to the composer.

An 1877 photograph of the Russian violinist Iosif Kotek and the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).