PP 557 | Poster Plakat

The morning is wiser than the evening. Morning-Evening. Conditions in France have become so hot that German soldiers rarely go out into the streets during the evening, preferring to while away the time in their barracks.

**Poster Number:** PP 557

**Category:** World War II

**Poster Notes:** Poster was produced for Russian-speaking populations living in England.

**Media Size:** 32x22

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** c.1943

**Editorial Information:** Text Editor Nik Aduev; [this editor may have been Nikolai Alfredovich Aduev, the Soviet poet and playwright]

**Sources & Citation:** Clark, K., et al. (2007). *Soviet culture and power: A history in documents, 1917-1953*. New Haven: Yale University Press. (p. 483, mention of Nikolai Aduev)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 557 World War II b

**Language:** English

**Additional Languages:** Russian

Artist: Goriaev, Vitalii Nikolaevich — Горяев, Виталий Николаевич

Vitalii Nikolaevich Goriaev's artistic career began at the age of 11 when he published his first drawings in the regional newspaper Zabaikal'skii Rabochii [Zabaikalsky Worker]. By 1929 he was living in Moscow. While there, he befriended the artist and poet Vladimir Maiakovskii who advised him to enroll at the Moscow VKhUTEIN [Higher Art and Technical Institute]. When the Institute closed the following year, Goriaev transferred to the Moscow Polygraphic Institute where he studied under the artists Vladimir Fa...

The morning is wiser than the evening. Morning-Evening. Conditions in France have become so hot that German soldiers rarely go out into the streets during the evening, preferring to while away the time in their barracks.