Maria Limanskaya directing traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945 - Evgeny Khaldey Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet traffic “regulator” who in May 1945 became ...

Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet traffic “regulator” who in May 1945 became known as the “Victory traffic controller” and the “Brandenburg Madonna” after a ...

Maria Limanskaya, a World War II veteran captured in an iconic May 1945 photograph that shows her directing Soviet troops at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, died in Russia’s southern Saratov region on ...

"Tonight, Maria Filippovna Limanskaya, known worldwide as the ‘Madonna of Brandenburg’, passed away at the age of 100. Maria Filippovna is a wonderful person with a difficult but bright ...