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THE CZAR NIKOLAI II'S RENUNCIATION (THE CZAR'S RENUNCIATION)
Karl Xaver Goetz • Jewelry, 1917
Description of the artwork «THE CZAR NIKOLAI II'S RENUNCIATION (THE CZAR'S RENUNCIATION)»
THE WRONG HAT IN THE WRONG PLACE...
Carl Xavier Goetz's scandalously famous table medal for the abdication of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, the image from which the Bolsheviks later used in their WIND OF ROST posters. Getz sees the causes of the revolution in Russia in the weakness and short-sightedness of the Russian Tsar, who found new "FRIENDS" in the face of the Anglo-Saxon Entente Coalition, and this despite the fact that shortly before this "FRIENDS" had helped the Russians to lose the Russo-Japanese War, Russian territory in China (Port Arthur) was lost, and Japanese battleships launched from British slipways in the Pacific Ocean had sunk almost the entire Russian fleet. Without the assistance of the British in Russia were carried out successful attempts on the Prime Minister Stolypin and the elder Grigory Rasputin, and the entry of Russia in the First World War on the side of its ancient enemies prompted the country to revolution ... Failing to keep the crown of the Russian Empire and abdicating the throne, Nicholas Romanov led the country into even greater disaster and signed the death sentence to himself and his family ...
Carl Xavier Goetz's scandalously famous table medal for the abdication of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, the image from which the Bolsheviks later used in their WIND OF ROST posters. Getz sees the causes of the revolution in Russia in the weakness and short-sightedness of the Russian Tsar, who found new "FRIENDS" in the face of the Anglo-Saxon Entente Coalition, and this despite the fact that shortly before this "FRIENDS" had helped the Russians to lose the Russo-Japanese War, Russian territory in China (Port Arthur) was lost, and Japanese battleships launched from British slipways in the Pacific Ocean had sunk almost the entire Russian fleet. Without the assistance of the British in Russia were carried out successful attempts on the Prime Minister Stolypin and the elder Grigory Rasputin, and the entry of Russia in the First World War on the side of its ancient enemies prompted the country to revolution ... Failing to keep the crown of the Russian Empire and abdicating the throne, Nicholas Romanov led the country into even greater disaster and signed the death sentence to himself and his family ...
