Old Vintage Table PORTRAIT Hero Chapaev CCCP USSR SOVIET RUSSIA Propaganda

Description: USSR, Soviet, Original Vintage Table Portrait Hero of the Civil War - Chapaev Size: 18 x 24 cm / 7.09 х 9.45 inch RARE 100% Original Made in USSR Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev (Russian: Василий Иванович Чапаев; 9 February 1887 – 5 September 1919) was a Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War. Biography Chapayev was born into a poor peasant family in a village called Budayka, now part of Cheboksary. During World War I, he fought as a non-commissioned officer and was awarded the Cross of St. George three times. In September 1917, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). In December he was elected commander of the 138 Infantry Regiment by a vote of the regiment's soldiers. He later commanded the 2nd Nikolaev Division and the 25th Rifle Division. On 5 September 1919, the divisional headquarters near Lbishchensk (renamed Chapayev in his honour) were ambushed by White Army forces. The circumstances of his death are uncertain and his body was never recovered. Several versions have been in circulation. In 1926, the newspapers Pravda, Izvestia and Krasnaya Zvezda reported on the arrest of the former Cossack officer Trofimov-Mirsky, who allegedly shot Chapaev after capturing him during a raid on Lbishensk. Chapaev's daughter Claudia and his great-granddaughter Evgenia wrote about the betrayal of the commander and the organization of his death by Leon Trotsky, as well as about the participation in the conspiracy of Pelageya Kameshkertseva. None of the "non-canonical" versions received documentary evidence. The canonical version that wounded Chapaev drowned when trying to cross the Ural River was particularly popularized by the 1934 Chapayev (which was approved by Stalin himself and quickly gained the cult status not only in the Soviet Union, but among Russian emigrants as well). Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE

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