Russian Revolution
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French anti-communist cartoon (1922)
Text: NA. Year: 1922. Publisher: Le Pèlerin. Artist: NA. Additional information: Published in Le Pèlerin, the cartoon depicts Bolsheviks plundering the imperial tomb in St Petersburg’s St Peter and Paul Cathedral, suggesting the looting of the resting place for Russia’s Tsars. The cathedral had served as a resting place for Russia’s Tsars since the eighteenth…
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Come, come, Nicholas! (French illustration, 1906)
Text: Come, come, Nicholas! The good Lord calls for you above! The larger caption reads: ‘When his turn comes’. Year: 1906. Publisher: NA. Artist: Gabriele Galantara. Additional information: The illustration was created for a special issue of the socialist-anarchist magazine L’Assiette au Beurre, which focused on the 1905 Russian Revolution. It portrays the overthrow and…
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It has come to pass (Soviet painting, 1960)
Text: NA. Year: 1960. Publisher: NA. Artist: Sergei Lukin. Additional information: The painting depicts a Bolshevik revolutionary standing next to the Tsar’s throne in the Winter Palace, symbolizing the triumph of the October Revolution. Created by Lukin to commemorate the anniversary of the revolution, currently housed in the V. I. Lenin Museum.
