PP 705 | Poster Plakat

Do you see those bunches of people waiting? These are workers waiting for their salary. Everyone who knows about this should demand of their plant committee a better way of paying salary. --V. Mayakovskii

**Poster Number:** PP 705

**Category:** Workers

**Poster Notes:** Poster text by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovskii (1893-1930); he's the man on this poster with the grey hat, pointing at the workers. He was a Soviet poet, playwright, artist and actor. Poignant to this poster; in 1929 and into early 1930, Mayakovskii wrote slogan texts for posters by the publishing house Gostrudizdat.

**Media Size:** 28x21.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph and Offset

**Publishing Date:** 1930

**Technical Information on Poster:** "Industrial Agitation” Series; Poster No. 1; Price 20 kopeks

**Print Run:** 10,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** A-69497

**Sources & Citation:** Terehina, V. N. (2016). *Paytnami krasok, zvonom lozungov ...:Knizhno-plakatnoe tvorchestvo Mayakovskogo.* Moskva: Nestor-Istoria. (P. 263, Mayakovskii writing for Gostrudizdat publishers)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 705 Workers

Artist: Kostianitsyn, Vasilii Nikolaevich (Kostitis, Vasilijs) — Костяницын, Василий Николаевич

Throughout his career, Vasilii Nikolaevich Kostianitsyn worked as a portrait artist, a poster artist, a graphic artist, and even as a house painter. He was born into a family of icon painters who lived in a small town located on the right bank of the Volga River in Russia. Early on, Kostianitsyn (whose family name was likely Kostitis and of Latvian heritage) was trained in icon painting by his father and grandfather. Prior to the ...

Do you see those bunches of people waiting? These are workers waiting for their salary. Everyone who knows about this should demand of their plant committee a better way of paying salary. --V. Mayakovskii