Kobayashi Kiyochika: [Kuropatkin(?) as town crier] - Library of Congress

Artist: Kobayashi Kiyochika

Title: [Kuropatkin(?) as town crier]

Date: [1904 or 1905]

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Print shows a man, possibly Russian General Alekseĭ Nikolaevich Kuropatkin, wearing suit and skis, holding a bell and a sheaf of papers, a white bandana around his head with two tattered flags (the flag of Russia and the the Ensign of the Russian Navy) stuck on the top; he is crying out the news from the war front as he passes a well-dressed Russian couple.

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