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Abbreviations: t top, b bottom, l left, r right, c centre, bl bottom left, br bottom right, tl top left, tr top right.
Plate 1: 1b MOSFILM/The Kobal Collection; 2b State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia/The Bridgeman Art Library; 3t Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia/The Bridgeman Art Library; 3c Clive Barda/ArenaPAL; 4tl Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany/The Bridgeman Art Library; 4tr Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia/The Bridgeman Art Library; 4b Borodino, Mozhaysky, Moscow Oblast, Russia/The Bridgeman Art Library; 5t Private Collection/Archives Charmet/The Bridgeman Art Library; 5b Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia/The Bridgeman Art Library; 6tl Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia/The Bridgeman Art Library; 7t Topfoto; 7c Getty Images; 7b Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library; 8tl Topfoto; 8tr Topfoto.
Plate 2: 1t RIA Novosti; 1b The Print Collector/Alamy; 2t Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy; 2c Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy; 2b The Gallery Collection/Corbis; 3tl Mary Evans Picture Library / Alamy; 3b Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS; 4tl World History Archive/Alamy; 4tr RIA Novosti/Alamy; 4b RIA Novosti; 5tl Photos 12/Alamy; 5tc Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy; 5tr Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy; 5cl ITAR-TASS Photo Agency/Alamy; 5c Archive Pics/Alamy; 5cr Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy; 5bl INTERFOTO/Alamy; 5bc Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy; 5br ITAR-TASS Photo Agency/Alamy; 6t Getty Images; 6b Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images; 7t Corbis; 7c Bettmann/Corbis; 7b Yevgeny Khaldei/Corbis; 8t Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy; 8b ITAR-TASS Photo Agency.
Plate 3: 1t Topfoto; 1b Topfoto; 2t RIA Novosti/Alamy; 2b AF archive/Alamy; 3t Tim Graham/Alamy; 3b RIA Novosti; 4t RIA Novosti; 4b ITAR-TASS Photo Agency/Alamy; 5t RIA Novosti; 6t RIA Novosti; 6c RIA Novosti; 6b ITAR-TASS Photo Agency/Alamy; 7t Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/PA; 7c Getty Images; 7b vario images GmbH & Co.KG/Alamy; 8t P-59 Photos/Alamy.