Images Dated 29th March 2010

The Lord Chief Baron, 1871.Artist: Coide

The Lord Chief Baron, 1871. A caricature of Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly (1796-1880), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Kelly was appointed solicitor-general in 1845, during the administration of Sir Robert Peel. He was also solicitor-general under Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby's administration in 1852, and was attorney-general in Lord Derby's second administration. He was raised to the bench in 1866 and appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and was sworn into the Privy Council. In 1875 he became Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature. A print from Vanity Fair, 4 November 1871

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Maxim Litvinov and French writer Romain Rolland in Red Square, Moscow, USSR, 1935

Maxim Litvinov and French writer Romain Rolland in Red Square, Moscow, USSR, 1935. Litvinov (1876-1951) was Soviet Foreign Minister at the time. Rolland (1866-1944) was a dramatist, novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. He was invited by Russian author Maxim Gorky to visit Moscow in 1935 and meet Stalin, and afterwards acted as an unofficial ambassador to the Soviet Union for French artists. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

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Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, 1970

Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, 1970. Zhukov (1896-1974) was one of the senior commanders of the Red Army in the Second World War, becoming the most decorated general in Russian and Soviet history. After the war he commanded the Russian occupation zone in Germany, but due to his popularity within the army, Stalin regarded Zhukov as a potential threat to his power and moved him to various remote and insignificant command postings. After Stalin's death in 1953, Zhukov returned to favour and was appointed Soviet defence minister in 1955, in which capacity he organised the iinvasion of Hungary to put down the uprising of 1956. He was relieved of his duties in 1957 after Nikita Khrushchev suspected him of involvement in a planned coup against his leadership. After Khrushchev was deposed in 1964 Zhukov once again returned to favour but not to political office. He is pictured holding a painting based on the famous photograph of a Russian soldier raising the Soviet flag on the Reichstag at the fall of Berlin in May 1945. Found in the collection of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow

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