"A Voice From The Past". A Cartoon From The American Magazine "Puck", 1905.

"A Voice from the Past". A cartoon from the American magazine "Puck", 1905.

The shadow of Louis points to the image of the guillotine and says to Nicholas: "Be careful, Brother." In front of him is a crowd of people begging him to sign a petition, but the Tsar seems to ignore it. The cartoon refers to Bloody Sunday. Even then, it was obvious to many abroad that revolution was inevitable in Russia.

Funeral of John F. Kennedy. 1963.

Sebastian Peter "River Scene", 1840

War correspondent Winston Churchill serving in South Africa. Bloemfontein, 1900.

Pushkin's ancestor, of whom the poet was very proud. That same legendary "Blackamoor of Peter the Great" - Abram Petrovich Gannibal. The kidnapped son of an Ethiopian prince, valet and secretary of Peter I, military engineer, mathematician and fortification specialist, participant in the Battle of Poltava, general-in-chief and, finally, the great-grandfather of the poet Alexander Pushkin on his mother's side. The great-grandson admired the diligence and incorruptibility of Gannibal, who managed to become the "confidant, not the slave" of the tsar. He lived about 90 years, outlived seven emperors and empresses, changed his religion twice, and his name three times. The most educated man of his time, Gannibal was a builder of fortresses, supervised the construction of the Ladoga Canal, was the director of the Kronstadt fortress, the commandant of Revel, the Vyborg governor, and the head of the Russian artillery.

British poster calling for funding for aid to the USSR during World War II, 1942