Images

Printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg (l. c. 1398-1468). Gutenberg Museum, Mainz.

A visualization of Scythian noblewomen in traditional festive garb. Special thanks to Patrick Scott Smith for his research and input.

Portrait of Michael Kutuzov (Golenishchev-Kutuzov, Prince of Smolensk) (1745-1813), oil on canvas by Józef Oleszkiewicz, 1810s. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

Menshikov Palace, St. Petersburg.

Portrait of Mikhail Kutuzov (1747-1813), oil on canvas by George Dawe, 1829. State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

Bonaparte at the siege of Toulon, 1793, by Édouard Detaille. Musée de l'armée, Paris.

The young Napoleon Bonaparte studying at the military academy at Brienne-le-Chateau, France, c. 1780. Litho by Job (pseudonym of Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville), published in Bonaparte by Georges Montorgueil, Boivin & Cie, Paris...

Pasquale Paoli, Corsican general, politician and patriot, oil on canvas portrait by William Beechey, c. 1810.

Napoleon Bonaparte, at the age of 23 in 1792, just after winning election to the lieutenant colonelcy of the Corsican National Guard, posthumous portrait by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1835, and is thus a posthumous portrait of Napoleon...

Le Souper de Beaucaire, or the Supper at Beaucaire, oil on canvas by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1869-1894. The Supper at Beaucaire was a pamphlet written by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1793, defending the necessity of France's Jacobin...