A Sacred Duty

Prints and Drawings

December 22, 1944

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Przhetslavskii
(Born 1875)
Aleksandr Alekseevich Zharov
(Born Semenovskaia, 1904; died Moscow, 1984)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Aleksandr A. Przhetslavskii
Title: A Sacred Duty
Place: Soviet Union (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Original 1944
Medium: Stencil
Inscriptions: From captivity, with its immesurable suffering, From the dark German camps Comrades, let us quickly liberate Our citizens who have been taken to Germany.
Dimensions: 127.8 × 100.9 cm (50 3/8 × 39 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.137

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