PP 256 | Poster Plakat

Never buy in a small private store what you can buy in your cooperative! All-Russian Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives

**Poster Number:** PP 256

**Category:** Agriculture

**Poster Notes:** Poster was initially published by the All-Russian Central Council of Cooperatives. Before the revolution, it functioned as a voluntary association. Under the Soviets, the Council was nationalized and membership became mandatory.

**Media Size:** 31.5x24

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1918

**Technical Information on Poster:** 1918 [year of publication]

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 408, poster 2613

**Catalog Notes:** PP 256 Agriculture b; Sister poster PP 622

Artist: Masiutin, Vasilii Nikolaevich — Масютин, Василий Николаевич

Vasilii Nikolaevich Masiutin was born in Lativa at a time when it was part of the Russian Empire. From 1908 to 1914, Masiutin studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he specialized in the technique of engraving. While in school, he was under the tutelage of Sergei V. Ivanov, the noted Russian graphic artist. During this early period of his life, Masiutin joined the art group Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art]. He ...

Never buy in a small private store what you can buy in your cooperative! All-Russian Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives