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Подвиг Петра Щипки. Petr Shchipki’s heroic deed. Depicts Petr being attacked by Red Armymen. [Black...

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Image title: Подвиг Петра Щипки. Petr Shchipki’s heroic deed. Depicts Petr being attacked by Red Armymen. [Black and White]. The text reads: "Seeing that the enemy was near and that with every minute the bolsheviks, blind with terrible evil, might catch up with the Commander, who was fleeing on foot...Petr Shchipka...disregarding the mortal danger and thinking only of his duty to the war and to christians, himself, OF HIS OWN WILL, DISMOUNTED FROM HIS HORSE and GAVE THE HORSE TO HIS COMMANDER.... he himself fell to his death under the blows of the embittered Reds, blocking the route to his Commander with his body..." (From an order of the Cossack Army no.15, 31 May 1919.
Location: British Library, London, UK

Image description: [A collection of posters issued by the Southern anti-Bolshevik armies.] [1918-21] Language: Russian Source/Shelfmark: 1856.g.8.(2)
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
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