General Gallery

Stamford Bridge View

Stamford Bridge pre-dates Chelsea Football Club by more than a quarter of a century. It opened on 28 April 1877 as an athletics venue and didn't become home to the Blues until 1905
Stamford Bridge stadium, home of Chelsea FC, stands empty before the F A Cup Final between Aston Villa and Huddersfield, 24th April 1920. (Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/Getty Images)

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Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, White general of the Russian Civil War, 1919

Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, White general of the Russian Civil War, 1919. Wrangel (1878-1928) commanded the White (anti-Bolshevik) Volunteer Army in southern Russia in the latter part of the Russian Civil War. Defeat at the hands of the Bolshevik Red Army forced him into exile in 1920. Found in the collection of the State Museum of the Political History of Russia, St Petersburg

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Lt, general vasili chuikov (2nd from left) giving an assignment to the commander of the 13th guards rifle division, major general alexander rodimtsev (far right), in the command post bunker of the 62nd army in november 1942, stalingrad, also present are major general n, i, krylov (far left) and member of the military council, lt, general k, a, gurov (2nd from right)

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