2-981-579 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Bolshevik Coup in Russia; The study of Tsar Alexander II, ancestor of Nicholas II, after the sacking of the Winter Palace, on the night of November 7-8, 1917: until then, everything in the room had remained as it was. the sovereign had left it when he died on March 2, 1881, and you could see his last unfinished cigarette', 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L 'Illustration, Paris, 1924].