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Morning of the Streltsy Execution. The Morning of the Streltsy Execution is a painting by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov, painted in 1881. It illustrates the public execution after the Streltsy's failed attempted uprising before the walls of the Kremlin. It shows the display of power the Russian government had during the late years of the 17th ...
The Morning of the Streltsy Execution after their failed uprising in 1698 by Vasily Surikov (1848-1916). Main article: Streltsy uprising After the fall of Sophia Alekseyevna in 1689, the government of Peter I engaged in a process of gradual limitation of the streltsy's military and political influence.
The Moscow Streltsy, who had participated in Peter the Great's Azov campaigns in 1695–1696, remained in Azov as a garrison. In 1697, however, the four regiments of Streltsy were unexpectedly sent to Velikiye Luki instead of Moscow. On their way there they were starving and carrying their ordnance by themselves, due to lack of horses.
After that, he chose to remain in Moscow and began the series of historical paintings that would establish his reputation, starting with The Morning of the Streltsy Execution. In 1881, he had his first exhibition with the Peredvizhniki, an artists' cooperative. [2]
Mobs of poor people joined with the Streltsy, and the streets of Moscow saw several days of looting. The May uprising led to the proclamation of Peter's older half-brother Ivan V as the "first" tsar and the relegation of the young Peter I to second position, with Sophia, Ivan's full sister and Peter's half sister, acting as a regent for them both.
In response, Shaklovityi advised Sophia to proclaim herself tsarina and attempted to induce the Streltsy to a new uprising. Most of the Streltsy units deserted central Moscow for the suburb of Preobrazhenskoye and later for the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra, where the young tsar was living. Feeling the power slipping from her hands, Sophia sent the ...
The curtains between the viewing room and the execution chamber opened at 7:53 p.m. As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and ...
Above her head there is a green bow (an element of horse harness) with a painted decorative pattern and Valdai bells. [77] At the very right edge of the canvas there is the yellow back of a light city sleigh (the so-called "visors"), in which there is a man in a fur coat and a beaver hat (his surikov was written by Ladeysky Cossack Ivan Perov ...