A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

KLIMENT Y. VOROSHILOV: (1881 - 1969) Soviet military officer and politician who served as Stalin's defense minister, reorganized the general sta...

B. VOROVSKY: Soviet politician who negotiated peace in Asia with Lords Curzon, the first Soviet Ambassador to receive credentials. T.L.S. as Ambassado

GENRIKH YAGODA: (1891 - 1938) Polish politician and statesman, a close friend of Joseph Stalin and head of NKVD who was instrumental in the arrest of

JANOS KADAR: (1912 - 1989) Hungarian Communist leader. S.P. 6 1/2" x 8" b/w, showing Kadar standing with another man on the steps of a bui...

ALEXANDER I: (1777 - 1825) Russian Czar whose greatest achievement was the destruction of the armies under Napoleon leading to the abdication of the E

ALEXANDER II: (1818 - 1881) Emperor of Russia responsible for the emancipation of the serfs, and made important contributions to the reform of the jud

ALEXANDER III: (1845 - 1894) Emperor of Russia who as prince showed open disapproval of his father, Alexander II's policies. On gaining the thro...

NICHOLAS II: (1868 - 1918) Czar of Russia forced by the Revolution of 1905 to create a Russian parliament and approve a constitution, abdicated during

NICHOLAS II AT THE WESTERN FRONT: An especially rare grouping of about fifty originals photographs showing various scenes of the Russian western front

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: (1769 - 1821) The "Little Corporal" whose brilliance in the field of battle and as Emperor of France has made him perh...