Postcard with a poster of the Smolny Institute, the Bolsheviks' headquarters during the October 1917 revolution, artist identified on the verso, 1967.
The size is continental standard 6" x 4", postally unused and unmarked. Published by The Soviet Artist Publishing House, circulation unknown. The postcard is #3 of a series presenting revolution-themed posters, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. The artist's name, N. Dolgorukov, is printed in the lower left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork shows the entrance to the Smolny Institute in Petrograd, the headquarters of the revolution, from which Lenin directed the armed revolt not only in Petrograd but wherever it was happening in Russia. The quote unde
The size is continental standard 6" x 4", postally unused and unmarked. Published by The Soviet Artist Publishing House, circulation unknown. The postcard is #3 of a series presenting revolution-themed posters, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. The artist's name, N. Dolgorukov, is printed in the lower left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork shows the entrance to the Smolny Institute in Petrograd, the headquarters of the revolution, from which Lenin directed the armed revolt not only in Petrograd but wherever it was happening in Russia. The quote under the artwork is a line from a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, a famous Russian and Soviet poet and a great Bolshevik sympathizer. Roughly translated, it says "Excited Smolny is shaking from the noise."
In excellent, near-mint condition.
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