Russkie prusskikh vsegda bivali! (Russians Have Always Defeated Prussians!)

Artist: Pyotr Alyakrinsky (Russian, 1892–1961)
Printer: 3-ia tipografiia "Krasnyi proletarii"
Publisher: Iskusstvo (Moscow & Leningrad, active 20th century)

1943

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Color lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 24 × 31 11/16 in. (61 × 80.5 cm)

Credit Line

The Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Russian Poster Collection, curated with Kevin Begos

Accession Number

2018.136.92

Geography

Made in Moscow, Russia

Culture

Soviet, Moscow

Period

20th century

Classification

Posters

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Provenance
Allan Chasanoff Collection, New York, to 2018; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Not Assigned
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Inscriptions

1240-1242: They also beat the Germans at Lake Peipsi
1558-1561: They also beat them by the walls of castles of the Livonian Knights
1758-1760: It was also so, that they beat them all the way to Berlin and that they occupied Berlin
1918: And if of any part of the past, they forgot Fritz,
1943: They will never forget about Stalingrad!

Stalingrad marked the decline of the German-Fascist army. After the carnage of Stalingrad, as is well-known, the Germans could no longer recover. Stalin.

LR: [printing information]
LC: "Art" State Publisher, Moscow and Leningrad, 1944
LL: artist: P. Alyakrinsky

Underneath tank, in script: Pyotr Alyakrinsky and [?] Vasilievna (not credited LL but also contributed)

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