The poster "Everything for Victory! Subscribe to the Military 5.5 % Loan", 1916

An original and extremely rare poster from the period of the First World War in a good collector's condition. T-in R. Golik and A. Vilborg, Petrograd. The size is 70*100cm. Minor tears at the edges and the upper right corner can be easily eliminated with a minor restoration, which we can help with. Guarantee of authenticity.

Various sources were involved to cover the military expenses of the Russian army during the PMV period. One of them was domestic loans. During the years of the First World War, Russia held 6 domestic bond loans totaling 8 billion rubles, which brought 7.4-8 billion rubles to the treasury. net revenue. With their help, about 30% of all military expenditures of the Russian Empire were covered. Initially, such loans within the country were focused mainly on banks and wealthy citizens. The fourth loan, issued in October 1915, aimed to expand the social base at the expense of holders of small capital. For the first time in the history of public finance in Russia, visual agitation was resorted to to attract the broad masses of the people. In 1916, the State Bank decided to start issuing propaganda posters and postcards to agitate subscriptions to war loans. Such artists as Ivan Vladimirov, Vladimir Varzhansky, Richard Zarins and others were involved in their creation.

In an effort to awaken patriotic feelings among the people, the official press for the first time called another loan a military one. Posters, propaganda brochures and posters with the image of a young worker at a machine for grinding shells were produced everywhere. The state tried in every possible way to attract peasants to credit operations, who so far remained aloof from the borrowing practice. After the February Revolution, the Provisional Government issued an internal loan for the continuation of military operations, called the "Freedom Loan". From the memoirs of the banker V. P. Anichkov, it is known that the Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich signed up for the" Freedom Loan", buying bonds for 500,000 rubles. That five hundred thousand was his entire fortune.