Tsar Peter I cutting the long sleeves of the boyars symbolically reducing the nobles' power. Hand-colored woodcut

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Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Size: 3076px × 3612px
Photo credit: © North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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