Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations (2 page)

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Authors: Norman Davies

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. Portrait of Stanislas II Augustus, king of Poland (pastel on paper mounted on canvas), after Marcello Bacciarelli (1731–1818) (copyright © Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library)

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. Summer afternoon in a ‘Stetl’ in Galicia.
c
. 1900 (ullstein bild/Imagno)

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. A Hutsul man with horse, Poland (copyright © RIA Novosti/TopFoto)

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. Górale men, Poland (Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego, Poland, with thanks to Mr Zbigniew Ładygin)

30
. Lwów scene,
c
. 1900 (Public Domain)

31
. Emperor Joseph II wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece. Oil on canvas, Georg Weickert, eighteenth century (ullstein bild/Imagno)

32
. Franz Joseph (1830–1916), Austrian emperor (Mary Evans Picture Library)

33
. Curonian Spit, East Prussia, wandering dune and lagoon, 1934 (copyright © ullstein bild/TopFoto)

34
. Marienburg, West Prussia. Castle of the Teutonic Order, from the northwest,
c
. 1930 (akg-images/Paul W. John)

35
. Detail from
The Battle of Grunwald
by Jan Matejko, oil on canvas, 1878 (National Museum in Warsaw)

36
. Tannenberg Memorial in 1934, on the occasion of the transfer of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg’s remains to the crypt. (ullstein bild/Imagno)

37
.
The Prussian Homage
by Jan Matejko, oil on canvas, 1882 (Wawel Museum, Kraków)

38
. Albrecht I von Hohenzollern, duke of Prussia, painting, 1522 (akg-images)

39
. Frederick I, King of Prussia (1701–13), colour print, 1890, after a watercolour by Woldemar Friedrich (akg images)

40
. Frederick William (1620–1688), the ‘Great Elector’, after an engraving of 1683 by Antoine Masson (
TopFoto.co.uk
)

41
. Hautecombe monastery on the western shore of Lake Bourget, lithograph (
c
. 1860?) by A. Cuvillier (akg-images)

42
.
Bonneville, Savoy with Mont Blanc
, by J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) (private collection/photograph copyright © Christie’s Images/The Bridgeman Art Library)

43
. The citizens of Chambéry vote for annexation, summer 1860 (Mary Evans Picture Library)

44
. Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, king of Italy (copyright © 2006 Alinari/TopFoto)

45
. Fiftieth anniversary of the annexation of Savoy to France, illustration,
Le Petit Journal
, 18 September 1910 (colour lithograph) (private collection/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library)

46
. Activists in Piazza del Quirinale before the referendum of 2 June 1946 (copyright © 2006 Alinari/TopFoto)

47
. Marie Luise of Bourbon with her children. painting, 1807, by Wilhelm Titel (1784–1862) (akg-images/Rabatti/Domingie)

48
. Silver florin of the Kingdom of Etruria (private collection)

49
. Elisa Baciocchi, grand duchess of Tuscany, and her court, by Pietro Benvenuti, oil on canvas, 1813 (copyright © RMN/Chateau de Versailles)

50
. San Miniato in Val d’Arno, Tuscany, Italy (Bruno Morandi/Robert Harding/Getty)

51
. Napoleon in exile on Elba before his return to France. Aquatint,
c
. 1830, with later colouring (akg-images)

52
. Victoria and Albert at the time of their wedding, 1840 (Mary Evans Picture Library)

53
. Royal group photograph, Coburg, April 1894 (The Royal Collection, copyright © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

54
. Duke Karl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 1916 (bpk/Langhammer)

55
. Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their wedding day, 20 November 1947 (copyright © 2003 Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)

56
. Funeral procession of George V (copyright © 2005 Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)

57
. Hitler entering Prague, 17 March 1939 (copyright © 1999 Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)

58
. Huszt, 1939 (Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)

59
. Black and Tans in Dublin, 1920 (Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)

60
. ‘The Treaty Makers’ (sepia photograph), English photographer (Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library)

61
. Women under guard in Dublin, 1921 (copyright © Underwood & Underwood/Corbis)

62
. De Valera taking the salute at an IRA parade (Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)

63
. King George V and Queen Mary during a visit to Ireland, July 1911 (photograph by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

64
. Participants of the Imperial Conference 1926 seated with King George V (Library and Archives Canada)

65
. Queen Elizabeth II makes a speech watched by Irish
taoiseach
Enda Kenny and President Mary McAleese during a State dinner in Dublin Castle, 18 May 2011 in Dublin (photograph by Irish Governmen/Pool/Getty Images)

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67
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68
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69
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70
. Irish postage stamps (images courtesy of the Royal Philatelic Society; with thanks to Dr Alan Huggins)

71
. King Nikola of Montenegro with his family, undated (Mary Evans Picture Library)

72
. King Nikola of Montenegro,
c
. 1910 (ullstein bild)

73
. King Nikola in exile, France, 1921 (copyright © The Granger Collection)

74
. Montenegrin postage stamps (author’s collection)

75
. Montenegrin postage stamps (British Library, Philatelic Collections: Supplementary Collection – Montenegro)

76
.
Kalevipoeg Carrying the Boards
, 1914 (pastel on paper), by OskarKallis (1892–1917) (copyright © Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia/The Bridgeman Art Library)