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Halt of the Russian Military Convoy
Halte d'un convoi militaire russe (pres Yalta)
View of Russian soldiers resting at the side of the road. In peacetime, soldiers were tasked with public works projects. This group was building the road between Yalta and Alupka. Image date: 12 August 1837
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838)
1837
Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
drawing from nature; lithograph
John Hay Library, Brown University
56 cm