Photo of General N.V. Ruzsky

The original picture is in excellent collector's condition. Postcard format. The reverse side is without output data, lined. Guarantee of authenticity.

Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky (March 6 [18], 1854 — November 1, 1918, Pyatigorsk) was an adjutant general (from September 22, 1914), general of infantry (from March 29, 1909), a member of the Military (from January 31, 1909) and State (from March 17, 1915) councils. Russian Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878, Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and the First World War. He played an important role in the events of the February Revolution. He played an outstanding role in the abdication of Nicholas II. According to the memoirs of Count Fredericks, who was present at the abdication of Nicholas II, known in the account of Countess M. E. Kleinmichel, N. V. Ruzsky allegedly forced the wavering tsar to sign the prepared abdication of the throne by gross violence. Ruzsky held Nicholas II by the hand, with the other hand pressed the prepared manifesto of abdication to the table in front of him and rudely repeated: "Sign it, sign it. Can't you see that there's nothing else for you to do? If you don't sign, I'm not responsible for your life." Nicholas II looked around in confusion and depression during this scene. He was arrested on September 11, 1918 in Yessentuki by the Reds. Russian Russian refused to lead the Red Army units, referring to the rejection of the war of "Russians with Russians." According to the White Guard Commission for the investigation of Bolshevik crimes, on October 19, 1918 (November 1, new style), he was taken to the Pyatigorsk cemetery as part of a group of hostages and hacked to death with a dagger by chekist G. A. Atarbekov. The general, according to the testimony of a witness, died after five blows inflicted on him, without uttering a single moan.