Cossack Glory

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Aleksandr A. Przhetslavskii

Title

Cossack Glory

Place

Soviet Union (Object designed in)

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1944

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

Cossack, crush the enemy with your horse, Smite him with your blade, strike him with fire, Wipe him out with your attack! Glory and honor await heroes. Forward in the name of the motherland, O Soviet Cossacks!

Dimensions

130 × 90.1 cm (51 3/16 × 35 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.135

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