Maski Cover

Cover of the Russian satirical journal Maski (Masks) depicting two men dressed as Russian orthodox monks kneeling by a fountain drinking the water that comes out of it, while the fountain holds a bodiless head in one hand, and places a wreath on one of the men with the other. The text below identifies the men as Alexander and Nikolai Guchkov, members of the Black hundred, an ultra-nationalist movement in the early 20th century, the head as that of Fyodor Dubasov, the Governor General of Moscow from 1905 to 1906, and the fountain as Dubasov's guardian angel. The text describes the scene as the Guchkov brothers drinking life-giving water from the stream of the guardian angel fountain, likely alluding to Dubasov's survival of an assassination attempt earlier that same year, 1906. (Photo by JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado/Getty Images)