Images

A Russian army under General Alexander Suvorov (1730-1800) crosses over the Alps in September 1799, during the War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802). Oil on canvas by Vasily Surikov, 1899. Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.

The meeting between Alexander of Macedon and King Aturpat (Atropates, in Greek) of Aturpatakan (Atropatena), painting by Job Mammadov. Azerbaijan National Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan.

The small hut at Steinbach on Lake Attersee in Upper Austria where the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) wrote music in the 1890s. Today the hut is a small museum dedicated to Mahler.

Statue of Arranshah Juansher (Pahlavi) (King Javanshir of Caucasus Albania), 637-669. A copy of the bronze sculpture of Javanshir at the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan. The original work is kept at the Hermitage.

The Sasanian province of Adurbadagan and surrounding territories Arran and Armenia.

A detail of an 1892 photograph by E. Bieber of the Bohemian-Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).

An 1836 watercolour and ink portrait by Maria Wodzińska of the Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin (1810-49). Maria was, for a while in the mid-1830s, engaged to Chopin.(National Museum, Warsaw)

An 1887 oil painting by Henryk Siemiradzki, Chopin Concert. The scene shows the composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) giving a performance to the Polish family Radziwiłłs in 1829.

An 1838 portrait by Auguste Charpentier of the novelist George Sand (the pen name of Aurore Dudevant (1804-76). (Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris)

An illustration of the complexity and dynamics of the Ancient Roman society and social order. Ancient Roman society was structured along the lines of wealth, political privilege, ancestry, citizenship, and freedom (it was also unquestionably...