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Vladimir Il’ich Lenin

Poster Number: PP 500
Category: Lenin
Media Size: 39.5x28
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1951
Editorial Information: Editor B. Vorontsov.
Technical Information on Poster: November 11, 1950, Publication No. 9241. Volume 1 sheet of paper. Order No. 544-D. Price 2 rubles.
Glavlit Directory Number: A 09004.
Catalog Notes: PP 500 Lenin
Artist: Berezovskii, Boris Feoktistovich — Березовский, Борис Феоктистович
Boris Berezovskii never received formal artistic education. From 1923 to 1924, he studied under the tutelage of Nikolai Grigoriev in Moscow. In 1949, he began to exhibit his works publicly. Throughout his artistic career, he produced designs for postage stamps as well as posters. The State Museum of Contemporary Russian History in Moscow holds a number of his posters in their collection.
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Printer: Printing plant named for Dunaev, [Moscow] — Типография имени Дунаева, [Москва]
The Dunaev printing plant was located at 9 Bolshaia Polianka in Moscow. Headquartered inside the former Menert Brothers printing plant, during the 1920s, the firm was named in honor of the Bolshevik leader Evlampii Dunaev (1877-1919) who served as assistant chairman of the Soviet of Nizhny Novgorod. Dunaev was also a member of the provisioning committee and he served on the Nizhny Novgorod Council of Local Economy. During the Civil War, he reportedly died from typhus. ...
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Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow-Leningrad — Искусство, Москва-Ленинград
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.
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