Bolshevik Soldiers About to Burn a Portrait of the Tsar - Ivan Alexeyevich Vladimirov, Undated

The burning portrait - the moment when an old identity is being destroyed. The Tsar's face portrait - the old order The crowd around - people ready to leave the past behind, become part of something new. (The artwork is identified as a scene from the 1917 Russian Revolution, although source does not give a creation date.)