This image is of an art piece which was published in a Russian news article in 1915. As characterized by the empty food baskets, axe wielding women, and the destruction of merchant booths, the purpose of this rendition was to illustrate the reasoning behind and violent nature of the women's subsidence riot of 1915. In regards to the origin and the purpose, the value of this image is that historians can gain insight into the typically hateful sentiment of the peasantry towards the empires failure to distribute food. With reference to the context this image has two primary sources of value. First, in observing the image a historian can gain evidence of the tensions between the working and upper class prior to the 1917 revolution. Furthemore,