Maria Feliksovna Bri-Bein was a Soviet graphic artist. Between 1910 and 1915, Bri-Bein received her artistic training at the Odessa College of Art under the tutelage of Kiriak Kostandi, a noted Ukrainian painter and an art scholar. In 1924, Bri-Bein continued her arts training in Moscow under the supervision of Ilya Mashkov, the noted Russian painter of still life and portraiture. From 1917 to 1919, Maria Bri-Bein was a member of TIURKH (Association of Southern Russian Artists) and she was ...

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).) It later became the 3rd Krasnii Proletarii Book Printing Plant when its location (at 16 Pimenovskaia ...

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.