The little boy levels a serious gaze at the photographer peering through a Graflex camera. Ery Kehaya, Jr. has just tugged off a veil that...

  Tolstoy and Gorky, 1900 On July 4, 1905, the Polish-born impresario and real estate man Joseph Mandelkern landed on page two of the New Yo...

Illustration from a New York Times story about Princess Zizianoff, April 1921 Once there was a Russian princess who wanted to live in...