The Cossacks Part II, ‘Fifty Lashes’
1877-1878
Francis Davis Millet sketched this chilling scene while serving as a war correspondent during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. The drawing captures a brutal moment of military discipline in the snow, where a soldier is pinned down while an officer prepares to administer a whipping. Millet, who later became a prominent academic painter and a close friend of Mark Twain, tragically died aboard the Titanic in 1912. This sketch serves as a gritty, firsthand souvenir of the harsh realities of 19th-century warfare.
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