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Description: | obverse design : Grand Duke Nicholas, head, right profile, wearing stylised spiked crown. To the left of the head the date
"1915"
obverse text : text in Cyrillic characters
reverse design : Prometheus, having the facial characteristics of Grand Duke Nicholas, naked and chained to a rock. An eagle, perched on
his right thigh, picks at his abdomen. On the left a second eagle is perched, wings folded
In this caricature portrait of the Russian Commander-in-Chief (and uncle of the Tsar) Grand Duke Nicholas, Goetz
belittles and ridicules Russian military leadership, strategy and operational activities in the field in 1915. Like Prometheus, who was
punished by the gods for stealing fire from Olympus, by being chained to a rock where he was daily savaged by an eagle, Grand Duke Nicholas
has daily to endure the victorious onslaughts of the German and Austrian forces on the Eastern Front in 1915. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | satirical Russian Army Nicholas Eastern Front & 1914 = 1915 First World War Grand Duke of Russia | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Goetz, Karl | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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