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OriginalIvan Goremykin was Prime Minister of Russia during World War I. He was killed during the Bolshevik Revolution by a street mob.
Reason
Part of my work for Operation Great War Centennial (and the Signpost for that matter: Some weeks, the best way to get pictures to illustrate major featured articles - or, in this case, lists - is to prepare them yourself). A fine photograph of an important Russian personage. Eastern Europeans are underrepresented, and I was surprised to find such a good quality photograph. Minor issues - this was pretty clearly originally intended to be oval framed, as the glow in the lower corners demonstrates, but that's a fairly minor issue given the difficulty of finding a better image. There were also a lot of fingerprints on this, by the way. Someone with greasy fingers got them all over the centre of the image. Don't do that, kids.
Articles in which this image appears
Ivan Goremykin, Russian legislative election, 1906 and List of heads of government of Russia
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Political
Creator
Uncredited; restoration by Adam Cuerden
PS: Chops seem to have been the done thing in late Imperial Russia. Sca (talk) 13:35, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin, c. 1906.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:17, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]