On the cover page is Anton von Werner's painting on "The Congress of Berlin": Final meeting at the Reich Chancellery on 13 July 1878, Otto von Bismarck, the German Chancellor, between foreign minister Gyula Andrássy from Austria-Hungary and a Russian diplomat Pyotr Shuvalov, on the left Hungarian diplomat Alajos Károlyi, Russian foreign minister Alexander Gorchakov (seated) and the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.