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The Posters That Went to War · Revolution and Civil War
Tsena Krovi
Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945) · Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Red Army Deputies, for the fourth anniversary of the war, 1918
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph Leonid Pasternak made for the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Red Army Deputies in 1918, printed at the First State Printing House in Petrograd, 71 by 106 cm.
Why it matters
Tsena krovi, The Price of Blood, marked the fourth anniversary of what the sheet calls the imperialist war. Pasternak was a painter and the father of the poet Boris Pasternak.
What to notice
The subtitle, for the fourth anniversary of the imperialist war, gives the new government's name for the war Russia had left that spring.
Four years of war, presented as a bill.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945)
- Printer / house
- First State Printing House, Petrograd
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Red Army Deputies, for the fourth anniversary of the war, 1918
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02: Public domain (PD-Art, PD-Art/en, PD-Art/layout).
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