Images

King Charles VIII of France (1470-1498), oil on panel portrait after an original by artist Jean Perréal (c. 1455 to c. 1528), 16th century. Musée de Condé, Chantilly.

A 1919 photograph of Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya, aka Catherine Breshkovsky (1844-1934) who was an activist and member of the Socialist Revolutionaries but had worked for greater women’s rights from the 1860s to the Russian Revolution...

A photograph of the Russian revolutionary Maria Spiridonova (1885-1941). Spiridonova led the Left Socialist Revolutionaries (Internationalists) and was elected as chair at the Second Congress of Peasants’ Soviets and of the Constituent Assembly...

A 1920 photograph of Inessa Armand (1874-1920), a socialist revolutionary and promoter of womens's rights in Russia in the early 20th century.

A c. 1900 photograph of the Russian socialist revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952). Kollontai served as a minister in the Soviet government of Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924).

An 1890s photograph of Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) a Russian socialist revolutionary and wife of Vladmir Lenin (1870-1924).

A 1917 photograph of the Russian Women’s Death Battalion and their leader Maria ‘Yashka’ Bochkareva (1889-1920), a Russian war hero. Also present is the British activist for women's rights Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928).

A photograph of Maria ‘Yashka’ Bochkareva (1889-1920), a Russian war hero and leader the Women’s Death Battalion. (Library of Congress)

Portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) by Julian Vannerson, March 1864. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) taken by Mathew Brady in 1851, about ten years before the American Civil War (1861-1865).