"the bolsheviks writing a reply to the englishman curzon. " budennyi, rykov, kamenev, kalinin, radek, krasin, bukharin. Lev kamenev, chicherin, trotsky, rakovskii, demian bednyi,litvinov, stalin, zinoniev. " based on the reply of the zaporozhian cossacks to sultan mahmoud iv by the russian realist painter ilya repin. The original painting shows the cheering ukrainian cossocks composing an insulting letter to the sultan of the turkish empire. Here, the cheerful bolshevik leaders, posed like the cossacks, are penning a letter to lord curzon. Krasnyi perets, 1923, no 6, p. 7. Date: 1923.
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