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'Jubilee' — Austrian illustration published in Die Muskete magazine, 13 March 1913, showing Tsar Nicholas II on a horse amid a vast sea of blood and corpses, with a deathly figure sat behind him holding a whip. Image
The text at the bottom - 'My son, why do you hide your face in fear?' - is a line from Goethe’s poem 'Erlkönig', which this illustration parodies.
This issue was published shortly after the jubilee celebrations in Russia, held in February to mark the tercentenary of the Romanov dynasty.

(Detail from a school certificate showing Mikhail Romanov and Nicholas II) Image
The artist, Karl Alexander Wilke, was one of Die Muskete's most prolific illustrators, especially during the First World War when his work featured on many a cover. ImageImageImageImage

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