PP 473 | Poster Plakat

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**Poster Number:** PP 473

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** [Upper right corner of poster] R.S.F.S.R. Workers of all countries, unite.

**Media Size:** 23x17

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1921

**Technical Information on Poster:** Publication No. 566; Year 1921.

**Print Run:** 15,000

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 138, poster 7

**Catalog Notes:** PP 473 Civil War

Artist: Artist Unknown — неизвестный художник

The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

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Printer: 1st State Cartographic Institution, Petrograd — 1-е Государственное картографическое заведение, Петроград

The 1st State Cartographic Institution was located on the Priazhka Embankment in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). Prior to being nationalized by the Soviets in 1918; the printing house belonged to Aleksei Alekseevish Il'in (1858-1942) who was a cartographer, business leader, and a member of the St. Petersburg State Council of Elections. Founded in 1859, Il'in's company was the first private cartographic business in St. Petersburg to produce and publish military maps, railway maps, and atlases prior to the ...

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