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1905

Poster Number: PP 994
Category: Revolution
Poster Notes: This poster commemorates the uprisings against the Tsar that occurred across the Imperial Russian Empire in 1905. The unrest led to the formation of a parliamentary government.
Media Size: 44x31.5
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1930
Technical Information on Poster: 30.KhRO; Print No. 30303; [Illegible Text]; Price 50 Kopeks
Catalog Notes: PP 994 Revolution b
Artist: Avilov, Mikhail Ivanovich — Авилов, Михаил Иванович
Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov was painter, graphic artist, illustrator and teacher in Imperial Russia and in the Soviet Union. Throughout his career the artist worked primarily in the battle genre and was a master of large-scale canvases dedicated to Russian military victories. Avilov was also engaged in book illustration and poster design from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1903, he began his studies at the school of OPKh (Society for the Encouragement of the Arts) and ...
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Printer: State Lithography Workshop named for M. Tomskii, Leningrad — Государственная литография им. М. Томского, Ленинград
The State Lithography Workshop named for M. Tomskii was located at Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (Petrograd). The workshop was named in honor of Mikhail Pavlovich Tomskii (1880-1936), head of the Soviet trade union and the head of the State Publishing House. Historically, the large printing operation was founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel). Shortly after the printer was nationalized by the Soviets, it became the 1st State Lithography Workshop, and in 1924 ...
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Publisher: State Publishing House, Moscow-Leningrad — Государственное издательство, Москва-Ленинград
For backstory, please see the entries for State Publishing House, Moscow and State Publishing House.
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