《近卫军临刑的早晨》描写了17世纪俄国历史上的一件真事。1698年,正当彼得大帝出国访问时,俄国发生了近卫军兵变。彼得大帝得知后仓促回国,立即残酷地镇压了这次兵变。画面的背景是莫斯科克里姆林宫的墙外和华西里伯拉仁诺大教堂的天球顶。占据画面大部分前景的是动乱的人群,一些农民装束的近卫军家属围绕在六个即将临刑的近卫军身旁,表现了宁死不屈的俄罗斯民族的坚强性格。 “The morning of the Pro-Guard's execution” depicts a real story of Russian history in the seventeenth century. In 1698, just as Peter the Great traveled abroad, there was a mutinee of the Guards in Russia. After Peter learned of the hurried return, he immediately brutally suppressed the mutiny. The background of the picture is the celestial dome outside the walls of the Moscow Kremlin and the Riva Lorenzo Cathedral in western China. Occupying most of the picture, turmoil occurred. Some peasant-mounted Guardian families, standing around the six impending Corps nearing an intimidation, demonstrated the strong character of the rather belligerent Russian nation.