There are things in history that do not like to be told and are not taught in school.
Russian history does not like to mention the famine of 1891 - 1892, which covered the Volga River region and the southern provinces. The reason for it used to be called adverse weather conditions, but it was omitted that Russia exported large quantities of wheat every year.
People were dying out their families and villages. At the same time the Emperor Alexander III denied the existence of famine, saying: I have no starving people, only those who suffered from crop failure.
According to rough estimates, 10,000 tons of valuable cargo arrived in the Russian Empire, which was distributed to the starving with a grandiose American flag. It was this moment that Aivazovsky depicted on his canvas.
