Mar 21, 2019
Artist Nikolai Karazin’s depiction of the 1888 Borki train disaster, when the imperial train carrying Emperor Alexander III of Russia and his family derailed at high speed. The emperor, who was already known for his extraordinary physical strength, lifted and held the collapsed roof of the dining car on his shoulders so his wife and children could escape uninjured. However, blunt trauma from the incident may have hastened Alexander III’s death from kidney failure, and more than twenty people were killed instantly.
