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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).

An 1893 oil-on-canvas portrait by Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

A photograph of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Taken in 1863. (Bettmann Collection)

Relief with a youth and a girl. Roman, 27 BCE to 68 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.