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His Excellency Caught a Chill. Resting at his Dacha near Irkutsk, 1904. Boris Vasilievich Smirnov (1881-1954) was a Russian artist who in 1904 traveled by prisoner transport from western Russia across Siberia. Along the way he created a series of drawings and watercolors of the people and places he encountered. Novosibirsk State Museum of Regional History and Folklife His Excellency Caught a Chill. Resting at his Dacha near Irkutsk, 1904. Creator: Boris Vasilievich Smirnov. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/HERITAGE ART)