"Marfa Posadnitsa. Destruction of the Novgorod Vech" (1889). The picture describes the most significant turning point in history in 1478: the loss of Novgorod self-government after the military campaign of Ivan III and the annexation of Novgorod to the Muscovite state, as well as one of the most prominent personalities in the history of the city - posadnitsa Marfa Boretskaya (+1505), the wife of Novgorod posadnik Isaac Boretsky ( +1471), who, after the execution of her husband, led the movement of Novgorodians to get out of the power of Moscow.
The album of the Moscow Rumyantsev Gallery was considered the most perfect of all similar publications on fine arts published in Russia.
Reproduction of paintings in the technique of heliogravure was made in Vienna, special paper of two grades was ordered from England and Holland,
the explanatory text for the edition was printed in Leipzig in a font specially designed for it.
