Abdication-ryzhenko-pavel-viktorovich
Summary
“Abdication” by Pavel Ryzhenko, portraying Colonel Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov, the last commander of the Preobrazhensky Regiment of Foot Guards and the man who held the Winter Palace during the March Revolution removing his shoulder straps after hearing of the end of the 304-year Romanov reign coming to an end. Kutepov would later become an important leader of the Whites during the Civil War
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Abdication
Russia
Painting depicting the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II.
Tags
Date
1800 - 1900
Location
Winter Palace, 59.94048, 30.31377
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Copyright info
Public Domain