THE STORY THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS.
Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan
Anna Pavlova at the last Imperial Ball in 1903
Anna Pavlova dancing with an elephant in Hamberg
Sergei Diaghilev
Statue of Anna Pavlova atop the Victoria Palace Theater in London
Ballet Russes costume designed by Pablo Picasso for Parade
Twenty-three-year-old Joseph Stalin in 1901
Statue of Anna Akhmatova opposite Kresty Prison on the River Neva
The Lubyanka Prison
"The Poison Dwarf" Nikolai Yezhov walking with Stalin
The same photo retouched to exclude Yezhov after he fell from favor and was executed
Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish architect who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. After going missing during the Siege of Budapest, he was murdered in Lab One.
The assassin Yakov Serebyransky, "Uncle Yasha," in 1941
Stalin's corpse, next to Lenin's corpse, after it was exhumed on Halloween, 1961
Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko on his deathbed after being poisoned in London
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo and his wife shortly before his death after years in prison
Chinese President Xi Jinping
The Wuhan Institute of Virology