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Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra with their haemophiliac son, the tsarevich Alexei, during the Romanov tercentenary celebrations of 1913 in Moscow. The jubilee cemented the Romanov myth of a mystical union between tsar and people.
That myth collapsed in the revolution of February 1917, when Romanov symbols and statues were destroyed. The head here belonged to a statue of Alexander III in Moscow.
Fedor Shurpin, Morning of our Motherland (1948), a classic example of socialist realist portraiture in the service of the leader cult. Stalin’s gaze is fixed ahead, beyond the frame, to a future only he can see.
Irakli Toidze, Mother Russia Calls (1941). The mother shows a military oath and calls on Russia’s sons to defend her from the enemy.
A United Russia party electoral poster (2003). The map of Russia is filled with portraits of historic Russian figures, including Stalin – the first time he appeared in Putin’s historical mythology.
Part of Alexander Nevsky’s exhibit in the St Petersburg ‘My History’ park. The panels on the left emphasise the role of Nevsky in defending Russia from ‘the aggression of the West’, while those on the right show his statesmanship in forging new alliances with the Mongols and Asia.
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