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October 04, 2016, 08:12 AM
#5381
Re: Name that historical figure!
No worries mate, who's this:
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October 04, 2016, 03:49 PM
#5382
Re: Name that historical figure!
I will guess Timur's son Shahrukh. I'm pretty sure I got that wrong though.
"Famous general without peer in any age, most superior in valor and inspired by the Way of Heaven; since the provinces are now subject to your will it is certain that you will increasingly mount in victory." - Ōgimachi-tennō
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October 05, 2016, 12:18 AM
#5383
Re: Name that historical figure!
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October 05, 2016, 12:25 AM
#5384
Re: Name that historical figure!
I only thought that because it had a similarity to those facial reconstructions of Timur and Sharukh. Apparently I was right because this is a facial reconstruction of Ivan the Terrible.
"Famous general without peer in any age, most superior in valor and inspired by the Way of Heaven; since the provinces are now subject to your will it is certain that you will increasingly mount in victory." - Ōgimachi-tennō
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October 05, 2016, 01:08 AM
#5385
Re: Name that historical figure!
Yes, the bust is a forensic reconstruction by the 'father' of forensic sculpture facial reconstruction, Mikhail Gerasimov, who, as you note, also did a bust of Shahrukh Mirza. Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Grozny; a close translation of Grozny has been suggested: [by] Vladimir Dal defines grozny specifically in archaic usage and as an epithet for tsars: "courageous, magnificent, magisterial and keeping enemies in fear, but people in obedience.) wikipedia.
Ivan was a role model of Josef Stalin's and Stalin had Gerasimov create this bust as well as that of Timur and his family. In legend, the opening of Timur's tomb by Gerasimov was considered bad juju and coincided with the 1941 German attack on Russia while the reinterment of Timur's skull with muslim rites coincides with the launch of Operation Uranus at Stalingrad, considered the turning point in the Russian-German war. (see Gerasimov link).
Further to Stalin's obsession with Ivan Grozny was his commissioning of the three part epic film by Sergei Eisenstein in 1942 (Ivan the Terrible) . Stalin hated it, incensed with how it contradicted his rose-tinted version of Ivan. Part I was released in 1944, part II was banned until 1958 - well after Stalin's death, and the filming of part III was stopped after part II was banned and scrapped after Eisenstein's death in 1948, and what had been filmed was destroyed. A spectacular looking film from what I've seen so far, can be found on youTube.
Last edited by Spear Dog; October 05, 2016 at 01:10 AM.
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October 05, 2016, 01:37 AM
#5386
Re: Name that historical figure!
"Famous general without peer in any age, most superior in valor and inspired by the Way of Heaven; since the provinces are now subject to your will it is certain that you will increasingly mount in victory." - Ōgimachi-tennō
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October 09, 2016, 02:57 PM
#5387
Re: Name that historical figure!
"Famous general without peer in any age, most superior in valor and inspired by the Way of Heaven; since the provinces are now subject to your will it is certain that you will increasingly mount in victory." - Ōgimachi-tennō
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October 19, 2016, 02:29 PM
#5388
Tribunus
Re: Name that historical figure!
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October 19, 2016, 02:41 PM
#5389
Re: Name that historical figure!
Kaiser Leopold? No but kinda close though.
"Famous general without peer in any age, most superior in valor and inspired by the Way of Heaven; since the provinces are now subject to your will it is certain that you will increasingly mount in victory." - Ōgimachi-tennō
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October 22, 2016, 04:38 PM
#5390
Re: Name that historical figure!
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
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October 22, 2016, 05:18 PM
#5391
Re: Name that historical figure!
Ibrahim Pasha (?) gets it!
It is indeed this highly skilled general of Frederick the Great.
"Famous general without peer in any age, most superior in valor and inspired by the Way of Heaven; since the provinces are now subject to your will it is certain that you will increasingly mount in victory." - Ōgimachi-tennō
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December 07, 2016, 03:15 PM
#5392
Re: Name that historical figure!
Time to revive this thread, isn't it?
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December 07, 2016, 03:41 PM
#5393
Re: Name that historical figure!
General Dumas "the Black Devil" himself.
"Famous general without peer in any age, most superior in valor and inspired by the Way of Heaven; since the provinces are now subject to your will it is certain that you will increasingly mount in victory." - Ōgimachi-tennō
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December 07, 2016, 10:10 PM
#5394
Re: Name that historical figure!
And the father of Alexander Dumas, author of Three Musketeers!
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December 08, 2016, 02:34 PM
#5395
Re: Name that historical figure!
General Dumas it is! Lord Oda's turn. Sadly I can't rep him
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December 11, 2016, 04:54 AM
#5396
Re: Name that historical figure!
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December 11, 2016, 04:06 PM
#5397
Re: Name that historical figure!
"Famous general without peer in any age, most superior in valor and inspired by the Way of Heaven; since the provinces are now subject to your will it is certain that you will increasingly mount in victory." - Ōgimachi-tennō
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December 11, 2016, 04:33 PM
#5398
Re: Name that historical figure!
Is it Cristopher, Burgrave and Count of Dohna-Schlodien?
I mean, the name's there next to the guy in the picture.
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December 11, 2016, 04:38 PM
#5399
Re: Name that historical figure!
Dammit! I thought I fixed that.
... Do you want to go next or should I post another?
"Famous general without peer in any age, most superior in valor and inspired by the Way of Heaven; since the provinces are now subject to your will it is certain that you will increasingly mount in victory." - Ōgimachi-tennō
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December 12, 2016, 01:04 AM
#5400
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