Caption

Scene in Saint Petersburg shortly after the assassination of the Tsar on March 13, 1881. A large group of workers are busy clearing the snowy road along the banks of the Neva in order to prepare the way for the imminent burial of the Tsar. A man on a ladder covers a street lamp with black mourning pile, illustration, reproduction from a 19th century model. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown, historical

Date

Apr 14, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/ImageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

Reference

BRK26G90_002

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

81.2Mb (27.1Mb) / 27.5in x 11.5in / 8252 x 3438 (300dpi)

Keywords

concept several deserted black date ladder history drawing emperor worker work accurate social month man snow funeral dead body end death Saint Petersburg symbolic picture classic illustration depiction antiquity dead historic czar male road symbolic snow-capped group big mourn die restored contemporary drawn person file authentic woodcut restoration way lantern former prepare decedent vintage sketch printing method replication 19th century Historic illustration Manpower Tsarist Tsardom Assassination Wood engraving Theme Street light Social topic march bunch of no one labourer labour precise guy burial corpse St. Petersburg symbolic image classical representation ancient times historical tsar street snow-covered large mourning Human being real xylograph reconstruction path deceased nineteenth century Historical illustration Subject street lamp multiple No People Staff labor exact tzar snowy great grief People realistic woodprint reproduction 1900s Topic nobody snowcapped genuine replica uninhabited snow covered copy empty snow-clad concepts dates ladders drawings emperors workers working socially months men funerals dead bodies ends deaths symbolic pictures illustrations depictions Altertum czars males roads groups dying persons files woodcuts restorations ways lanterns formerly preparing decedents printing methods 19th-century Historic illustrations labourers labouring guys corpses classically historically streets human reconstructions paths Historical illustrations laboring replicas covered with snow on black works men's man's body bodies St.-Petersburg abstract depicting historical image history image history images Straße symbol mourns dies individual individuals restoration work prepares vintage-styled Labourers labours Concept image Symbol image Symbol photo Theme picture conceptual photo representing symbolise symbolize symbolizing symbolising humans labors