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Read Russian? Soviet art Chekov question

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Post by Vance Pollock » 05 May 2003, 18:09

I have a set of Soviet themed postcards, judging from the red flags flying in several of them, and would like more information.
They all appear to be by the same artist and feature scenes of people fighting for the Revolution (?) and include many horses. One example can be seen on the wall in the attached portrait of the artist. I can make out very little Russian but have guessed that the artist is Chekov. Can anyone give me a translation from the attachment along with an approx date for the publication. Thank you very much.
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Soviet painter

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Post by billi46 » 08 Jun 2003, 18:35

Hi !

The soviet painter is : Mitrofan Borisovitch GREKOV (1882-1934), specialist in horses and WWI paintings. I believe the year is 1954.


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Post by Hasso » 10 Jun 2003, 04:22

Yep, the date is 5 October 1954, it was published in an edition of 25,000 copies, priced at 20 kopecks. From the "Soviet Artist" publishing firm.

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Post by Brannik » 12 Jun 2003, 02:40

Hasso wrote:
Yep, the date is 5 October 1954, it was published in an edition of 25,000 copies, priced at 20 kopecks. From the "Soviet Artist" publishing firm.

Not quite."Soviet Painter",and that is not a publishing firm but more of a state run association/trade union.

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Post by Hasso » 12 Jun 2003, 03:34

Brannick,

Xudozhnik can mean either painter OR artist. So let's agree to disagree on the literal translation of that. I choose artist as a better english translation of the word.

"Izd-va" is short for "Izdatel'stva" which is the genitive form of the word "Izdatel'stvo", which means "publisher".

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