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A book is the life of our time. A book is a flying carpet which takes you up and flies over the whole world with you. -Belinskii.

Poster Number: PP 763
Poster Notes: The quote on this poster likely comes from Vissarion Grigorievich Belinskii, a Russian literary critic of the mid-1800s.
Media Size: 31x22.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: c.1919
Sources & Citation: Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B.S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 491, poster 3316
Catalog Notes: PP 763 Education & Literacy
Artist: Simakov, Ivan Vasil'evich — Симаков, Иван Васильевич
Ivan Simakov worked principally as a graphic designer for books. It was not until after the Russian Revolution that he began designing posters. Simakov graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1912 with a degree in architecture. He lived and worked in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) throughout his life. As a book illustrator, his illustrations were included in the 1907 title "Pushkin in Graphics”. From 1919 to 1925 he worked for the Leningrad branch of the State Pu...
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Printer: A.F. Marks Lithography Workshop — Типография Адольф Фёдорович Марксъ
The A.F. Marks'' Partnership Artistic Printing Office was located in St. Petersburg at 29 Izmailovskii Avenue. Founded in 1881 by the printer and publisher, Adolf Fedorovich Marks (1838-1904), the firm published the weekly journal Niva in addition to other literature. In 1916, Moscow publishing mogul Ivan Sytin purchased a controlling interest in its ownership. The Partnership was nationalized (in late 1920) and placed under Gosizdat, the state publisher. In 1922, the printer was placed under Petropechat', a state-owned trust ...
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Publisher: State Publishing House, Petrograd [St. Petersburg, Russia] — Государственное издательство, Петроград
The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard in St. Petersburg. The Soviets nationalized the print yard in 1917 and requisitioned its presses. Out of the requisitioning emerged the Publishing House of the Petrograd (St. Petersburg) Soviet formed in the winter of 1917 by the Literary and Publishing Department of People's Commissariat for Education.
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