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Kerensky at the front in Tarnopol, photograph, 1917

From “Unteilbar und Untrennbar”. The history of the great world war with particular account of Austria-Hungary, Vienna 1919, Vol. 3, p. 25

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

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