Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:The Illustration of The Siberian War, No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk (Blagoveshchensk).jpg

Siberian War: Blagoveshchensk

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Original - As the Russian Revolution raged, various countries tried to stop it, supporting the White Army over the Red Army. Japan was one of these. It was ultimately a failure, but the campaign had its successes - the capture of Blagoveshchensk being one of these.

Reason

A fine illustration of a largely forgotten aspect of the Russian Revolution: The attempt to stop it. I also like seeing Japanese work of this period - this is probably the period where their art is most affected by Western styles, and it just looks neat. I like the way the slightly off-kilter angles serve to give a dynamism to the image, and how it rather luxuriates in its bright colours.

Articles in which this image appears

Siberian Intervention, Entente intervention in the Russian Civil War, Blagoveshchensk, Gongota Agreement of 1920. An older, low-res version had been in all these articles for quite some time, which this new one replaces.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/War

Creator

Tokyo : Shobido & Co.

• Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:29, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support -- Takabeg (talk) 11:47, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support - Sasata (talk) 17:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support - Gut Monk (talk) 23:35, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support. Hooray for uncontroversial noms! J Milburn (talk) 09:34, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support, very nice. --Avenue (talk) 13:55, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support. High EV, good restoration. - Darwinek (talk) 11:28, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:The Illustration of The Siberian War, No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk.jpg --I'ḏ♥One 03:12, 5 September 2010 (UTC)