Vladimir Ivanovich Liushin was a Soviet painter, set designer and a graphic artist. He was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1913 he began his artistic studies at workshops of the Moscow Stroganov School for Technical Drawing. From 1917 to 1918 Liushin studied at the painting school of the Stroganov. In 1919, the school was nationalized by the Soviets and became GSKhM (State Free Artistic Studios). Liushin also studied under the Russian avant-garde artist ...

The Krasnii Proletarii Workshop originated under the ownership of Ivan Kushnerev, a Russian entrepreneur who founded the Kushnerev & Company Printing Shop in 1869 in Moscow. When Kushnerev died in 1896, his printing operation was one of the largest in Imperial Russia. In 1919, the printer was nationalized by the Soviets and consigned to the Printing Section of the Moscow Economic Council (MSNKh). Around 1920, it was placed under the Poligrafkiniga (Book and Magazine Printing) Trust and was given ...

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