L'Assiette au Beurre - Kishinev massacre

The Tsar's Manifesto, March 1903, before the Kishinev massacre in April. Caption reads: '…Continuer l'application des preceptes de tolerance inscrits dans les lois fondamentales de l'empire russe et qui, rendant hommage a l'eglise orthodoxe etablie, assurent cependant a tous les sujets appartenant a des conditions differentes la liberte de conscience et la liberte de culte' / '… to continue to apply the precepts of tolerance inscribed in the fundamental laws of the Russian Empire which, in hommage to the Orthodox church, assure freedom of religion and freedom of conscience to all subjects' Published in L'Assiette au Beurre - The Crimes of Tsarism and the massacres of Kishinev / Chisinau. Illustration by Vaclav Hradecky 1865 - 1940 L'Assiette au Beurre Edition 114 - June 1903.