Images

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.

A map of Europe displaying important cities that shaped its history, from antiquity to the present. Cities on the map represent key centers throughout history. Each city represents a distinct period from Athens, Rome, and Constantinople (now...

Installation of the Conseil d'Etat on 25 December 1799, during the period of the French Consulate. The three consuls of France preside in their red garments; from left to right: Jean-Jacques de Cambacérès, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Charles-François...