Olga Viacheslavovna Eiges began to exhibit professionally starting in 1927. From 1930 to 1934, she studied at the Moscow State Academic Art College in Memory of 1905, and from 1934–1939, she was a student at the Moscow Institute of Visual Art (a.k.a. Surikov Institute) in their Department of Posters where she studied under Aleksandr Deineka, Lev Bruni, and Vladimir Favorskii. Eiges graduated from the Institute in 1939. As a poster artist, Olga Eiges illustrated for the Institute of He...

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 ...

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.