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Soldiers on a riverbank watch boats crossing toward a smoking walled city with church spires under a stormy sky.

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Taking of Narva, Alexander von Kotzebue (1880), Hermitage Museum. Via artnap.com

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The painting shows a crowd of uniformed soldiers and officers on a sandy riverbank, while small boats ferry men across the water toward a walled city. Smoke rises above the town and a fortress tower stands at the left, with church spires visible among the rooftops. The work is Taking of Narva by Alexander von Kotzebue, dated 1880, held in the Hermitage Museum.

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