Sujet
Assassination of the late Emperor of Russia: the condemned prisoners, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Assassination of the late Emperor of Russia: the condemned prisoners, 1881. 'Timothy Michaeloff; Hessy Helfmann; Peroffskaya; Reesakoff; Sheliaboff pleading for himself; Kibaltchik; President; Prisoners' Property...Our Special Artist at St. Petersburg made, at the trial, sketch portraits of the six Nihilists, four men and two women, concerned in the murder of the late Emperor of Russia...The prisoners were Nicholas Sheliaboff, Sophie Peroffskaya, the mining engineer Kibaltchik, Hessy Helfmann, a Jewess, and Gabriel Michaeloff and young Reesakoff; the two last-named having actually carried the explosive shells to kill the Emperor...The Judges, having deliberated several hours upon their verdict...pronounced all six prisoners guilty; and sentence of death was then passed on all of them...Helfmann, being with child, her execution has been deferred. The other five prisoners were hanged last Friday...Kibaltchik, the maker of the bombs, devoted his last hours to drawing up a memoir on the subject of his specific discoveries...In this document he avowed his desire that his name should be immortalised, and he made a gift, of his inventions to the State, on condition that all profit should go to the relief of the children of political criminals'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A42_376
Model release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
41,2Mo (2,7Mo) / 28,3cm x 36,5cm / 3339 x 4311 (300dpi)