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In this portrait, John Basil Turchin (Ivan Vasilyevich Turchaninov) is wearing a Union military uniform with his jacket unbuttoned, showing his shirt, tie and vest underneath. He is sitting and leaning on a table. Turchin was a Russian artillery…

James Bachelder signs a letter written on Office of the Commissioner of Public Buildings stationery to B.B. French requesting French to call for a sitting as early as convenient. Bachelder has placed his painting "The last hours of Lincoln" in room…

John Basil Turchin, controversial Union Civil War officer, was born Ivan Vasilyevich Turchaninov in Russia in 1822, and Americanized his name after he immigrated to the United States in 1856.Serving as a regimental, division, and brigade commander in…