PP 597 | Poster Plakat

About Revitalized Icons and about how a Building Manager Revitalizes Ever-Active Priests
[On top left]
Three peasant spiders are gathered
to warm themselves and to treat
their bones to steam around
a huge samovar.
You will recognize all of them
when you look. All of them are your friends, — About Revitalized Icons and about how a Building Manager Revitalizes Ever-Active Priests [On top left] Three peasant spiders are gathered to warm themselves and to treat their bones to steam around a huge samovar. You will recognize all of them when you look. All of them are your friends, "Simpleton priest, shop keeper and the regional spider, the kulak." [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 597

**Category:** Communist Culture

**Media Size:** 29x23

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** c.1925

**Print Run:** 30,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** 29906

**Catalog Notes:** PP 597 Communist Culture b

Artist: Illegible Name — Неразборчивое Имя

Printer: Typolithography of Geokartprom of the V.T.U. (Military Topographic Directorate of the Soviet Army), Moscow — Типо-Литография Геокартпрома В.Т.У. (Военно-топографическое управление), Москва

In 1918, the Soviets nationalized the Moscow printing works of brothers Wilhelm Theodor Mehnert and Herman Julius Mehnert at 9 Bol'shaia Polianka (later named Soviet Street). The building housing the printer was first occupied by the Julius Kirsten printing firm. Upon its nationalization, the Soviets placed Mehnert printing under Geokartprom, a State-owed trust of the Commissariat of Defense that centralized government-mapping projects. Geokartprom printed atlases and maps solely for military and government use. While it did map ...