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Alexej A. Brussilow, portrait photo

From “Unteilbar und Untrennbar”. The history of the great world war with particular account of Austria-Hungary, Vienna 1919, Vol. 2, p. 184

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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