Poster "For all that is looted by a herd of pigs", 1942

The original and rather rare cartoon poster of the Second World War period is in satisfactory condition. The poster has tears and fragmentary losses along the perimeter, taping with tape. Pasted on thick modern paper. The author of the poems is Alexander Matveyevich Fleet. Publication "Windows of TASS". The size together with the substrate is 590*420 mm. After being decorated in a baguette frame with a passepartout, it will be an excellent decoration of the interior and collection. Guarantee of authenticity.

Alexander Matveyevich Fleet (11 (23) September 1891, Kiev — 16 December 1954, Leningrad) was a Russian poet and satirist. Born on September 23, 1891 in Kiev. According to other sources — August 30, 1892. In Kiev, he brilliantly graduated from the law faculty of the university, for which he was awarded a two-volume Shakespeare in an elegant binding. With full force, his talent was revealed in the city on the Neva River, where he moved with his mother. In 1934, Fleet was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. Author of books of epigrams and cartoons, materials in "Satyricon", "New Satyricon" (1917), "Red Newspaper", "Behemoth" magazine, "Smekhach" magazine, "Windows of GROWTH" (1920-1921). He wrote texts for the review of "14 Powers", for the Petrograd theater "Revolutionary Petrushka" (1920), later-for "blue-rose" collectives ("Machine", etc.), for the puppet theater "Petrushka" under the direction of E. Demmeni.

Throughout the siege, he worked in Leningrad, wrote in the front-line press-the newspapers "On Guard of the Motherland", "Red Baltic Fleet", wrote for LenRadio, "Okon TASS". In April 2015, in St. Petersburg, in the Rumyantsev Mansion-a branch of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg (GMI SPb), the exhibition "Windows with a view of Victory" was opened, which presents more than 60 posters of "Windows TASS" from the collection of the GMI SPb, including posters with poems by A.M. Fleet. During the war, Fleet's satirical books were published in besieged Leningrad — "Shrapnel", "Broken Trumps" and others. Some books are co-authored with Mikhail Dudin.