Human-size chess game with actual soldier in St. Petersburg, Russia (1924)

It's good to be the king lol

I'm hoping actual swords were drawn and the horses had to awkwardly shuffle in an L shape

But can you actually kill them?

Anyone keen to recreate this with me?

Reminds me of the human snakes and ladders thing we have in the nearby park. I've only seen a few people playing it once tbh.

That would be Leningrad actually if the time stamp of right

In Russia chess play you.