Tachanka 1925, painting by Mitrofan Grekova a volunteer of the Red Army in the ranks of the cavalry corps Budenny. The genre of his paintings is characteristic of wartime. Tachanka was an artillery array used during the Russian Civil War; horses harnessed to a conventional peasant car. A machine gun was fastened on board, and the crew numbered from two to three people. Battle painter Martyshchenko Mitrofan Pavlovich (1882 - 1957), was known as Mitrofan Grekov

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