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A work made of stencil.

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  • A work made of stencil.

Date:

April 11, 1944

Artist:

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Volkov
(Born Skobelev, 1886; died Tashkent, 1957)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Aleksandr N. Volkov

Title

Untitled

Place

Russia (Artist's nationality:)

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1944

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

The Supreme High Command of the Red Army has ordered advancing Soviet units to pursue the enemy right up to his total destruction and capitulation. The Red Army has crossed our state border with Czechoslovakia and Romania along a front that extends for 200 kilometers. In pursuit of the retreating enemy it has captured the town of Siret and has occupied more than 30 other population centers on the territory of Romania.

Dimensions

121.8 × 138.1 cm (48 × 54 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.215

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