PP 144 | Poster Plakat

Red Army soldier, take care of your rifle; it's your loyal and reliable friend!

**Poster Number:** PP 144

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** A regional poster for the series "Take Care of Army Property Week" -- a campaign from late 1921.

**Media Size:** 28.5x22.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1921

**Technical Information on Poster:** Publication No. 86

**Print Run:** 3,000

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 269, poster 1263

**Catalog Notes:** PP 144 Civil War b; Sister poster PP 704

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: State Chromolithography Workshop, Tver —

Publisher: State Publishing House, Tver' — Государственное издательство, Тверь

The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard in St. Petersburg. As the Red Army controlled more provinces and cities in former Imperial Russia, the State Publishing House developed offices outside St. Petersburg. Tver is a city northwest of Moscow at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa rivers. From 1931 to 1990, the city was called Kalinin in honor of the Bolshevik leader Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, as he was ...

Red Army soldier, take care of your rifle; it's your loyal and reliable friend!