Donkey walk
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The donkey walk is a Russian Orthodox Palm Sunday ritual re-enactment of Jesus Christ's entry into Jerusalem. The best known historical donkey walk was practised in Moscow from 1558 until 1693. The Me
The donkey walk of tsar Alexis (Vyacheslav Schwarz, 1865).
The Donkey Walk. Dutch print, 17th century.
Vyacheslav Schwarz
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Vyacheslav Grigorevich Schwarz, or Shvarts was a Russian painter, active in St. Petersburg and his native Kursk Governorate during Tsar Alexander II's reign, best known for his pictures of pre-Petrine
The Last Tavern at the City Gates
Ivan the Terrible by the body of his son, who he has murdered (1864)
Tsar Alexis I playing chess (1865)