Good morning and good mood to everyone!

The next release from ALTORES STUDIO

B-094

FIGHTER OF THE FEMALE DEATH BATTALION
World War 1

1:10

Resin kit

Sculptor Alexander Deryabin

Great work ! Sculpture really very fine! Bravo!

Great sculpt!
I found the above period photo here (coloured by digital artist "Klimbim" from Russia)
and this info on the batallion on the internet (as you do...).

Some history about his unit...:

The so-called "Women's Death Batallion" (Женский батальон смерти / Zhenskiy bataljon smerti) was created in 1917 by Maria Botschkarowa ...




... founded in Moscow at a time when the Tsar had already toppled and Aleksandr Kerensky was already in power.

Here is the public swearing-in of women in Red Square in front of the Kremlin ...:






The authorities allowed Botchkarowa, even though the military value of the unit was zero!

The "Women's Death Battalion" had more propaganda value for them ...:











One wanted (Russia was on the verge of a military defeat against Germany) with the formation of fighting women's units, the war-weary soldiers at the front, so to speak, "to honor" and motivate to fight on, which ultimately failed.




A military training, the women got as good as not! They just managed to march and mastered the most necessary rifle handles ...

Only once was the "Death Battalion" seriously used - on the eve of the Bolshevik October Revolution, when the women, along with a few frightened officer disciples ("Junkers"), the Winter Palace in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), the seat of Kerensky's government against the Bolsheviks should defend ...:




When things got "serious", the women - as well as the Junkers! - ran awy, before the Bolsheviks reach the palace..

So Lenin's armed people could occupy the Winter Palace completely without a fight! There was no one left to shoot them!

The famous "Storm on the Winter Palace", which Sergey Eisenstein filmed so ingeniously, with heavy fighting, never existed!



And anyway:

The gate, which is so contested in the movie about the "Great Socialist October Revolution", does not lead into the interior of the palace, but to the stable buildings ...


Cheers

Very interesting subject, certainly something different to do.

Geoff

Come on Altores, you can do better than this...

Do not quite understand. It is possible more in detail - that in it it is made badly?