Vladimir Vasil'evich Lebedev
(Born St. Petersburg, 1891; died Leningrad, 1967)
Samuil Iakovlevich Marshak
(Born Voronezh, 1887; died Moscow, 1964)

Marriage from Afar, TASS No. 0524, July 26, 1942

Stencil
2358 x 903 mm
“In Germany there is a new kind of marriage: marriage at a distance. It is performed when the groom is away fighting at the front… The bride goes alone to the registry office, while the groom is represented by a chair on which lay a helmet and a sword…”
(From the newspaper Pravda)

This is a marriage from afar,
In reality, not in a dream,
Between a soldier now at war
And a girl in Germany.

She has fully earned
A quite worthy husband:
He’s always calm and quiet
And doesn’t ever drink!
Ne boltai! Collection, Obj: 209842