Military letter "What is signed, will be", autographed by N. Dolgorukov

A very rare type of military letterhead, created by the hand of the famous Soviet poster artist Nikolai Dolgorukov. The letter is signed by him personally, and also contains an autograph. Guarantee of authenticity. A real find for any collector of Soviet posters.

Nikolai Dolgorukov. Famous Soviet graphic artist, illustrator, poster artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In 1919, he entered the Upper Iset Factory as a draftsman, at the same time he painted scenery for the Theater of Revolutionary Satire (TEREVSAT), studied at the Ural Mining and Construction Institute at the Faculty of Architecture (1924-1925). Since 1925, he worked as an artist in the decorative workshop of the Sverdlovsk Theater, and at the same time began working on posters.

He studied in Vkhutein (Higher Art and Technical Institute) under L. A. Bruni, D. S. Moore. Participant of exhibitions since 1928. He was a member of the Association of Workers of the Revolutionary Poster (ORRP). He worked in the field of political satire and posters. He collaborated with newspapers ("Krasnaya Zvezda", "Pravda", "Izvestia") and magazines ("Searchlight"," Soviet Warrior","Ogonyok"). In 1933, he met Victor Denis, with whom he made his first joint poster, later this creative union continued and many outstanding campaign political sheets were created.

In Dolgorukov's early posters, the influence of the avant-garde trends of the 20s is noticeable; he turns to constructivism, uses photomontage and collage. When composing a poster, he chooses sharp angles and strictly observes the rules of linear perspective, uses contrasting scales and plans. The inclined horizon and diagonals, a favorite technique of constructivists, make his images dynamic. Dolgorukov's posters of this time are stylistically close to the works of artists of the creative association " Society of Machine Tool Makers "(OST) and"October".

The main works of the 30s: "Transport worker, armed with technical knowledge, fight for the reconstruction of transport" (1931), "Soviet airships must and will fly over the Soviet country!" (1931), "We will make the powerful energy of the Volga serve the cause of socialist reconstruction!" (1931), " To storm the fourth last year of the five-year plan! "(1931), "All power to the Soviets!" (1932), "We will create a powerful Soviet airship construction" (1932), "For World October! Proletarians of all countries unite! "(1932), " The worker and the collective farmer-in the ranks of the Society of Friends of Radio. Radio for the service of socialist construction! "(1932), " Under the banner of Lenin to build a classless society! All power to the Soviets!" (1932), "The results of the first five – year plan" (1933), "Long live the Lenin CPSU(b)!" (1934), "The Metro – the main means of solving the problem of fast and cheap human transportation" (1935), "There is a metro!" (1935), "Long live the great, invincible banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin!" (1935), "Long live our native invincible Red Army-the mighty stronghold of the peaceful labor of the peoples of the USSR..." (1935), "Long live our Great Stalin! Long live the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army-the faithful guardian of the Land of the Soviets! Long live the invincible party of Lenin-Stalin" (1935), "The Great Motherland sends its faithful sons to the Red Army" (1935), "Let us work in the Stakhanov way!" (1935), "Expand the ranks of the Stakhanovites!" (1936), "Long live the Stalinist Constitution!" (1936), "Under the banner of the Stalinist Constitution, forward to communism" (1937), "Those who try to attack our country will receive a crushing rebuff..." (1937), "The Navy-the mighty guardian of the water borders of the USSR" (1937), "Long live Leninism!" (1938), "Our Army does not exist for attack" (1938).

From October 1941 to January 1942, he was evacuated to Kuibyshev together with the editorial office of the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda. Performs posters and graphic series on the themes of the Great Patriotic War. In 1941, he was one of the first to create the poster "The enemy will have no mercy!". During the war, Nikolai Dolgorukov created a number of outstanding satirical posters ridiculing the fascist invaders, raising Soviet soldiers to feats of arms and the fight against the enslavers, they were distinguished by expressiveness, conciseness and sharp journalism ("The enemy will not be spared!", 1941; " So it was... so it will be!", 1941; " We will sweep away the fascist barbarians from the face of the earth!", 1941; " Meet the enemy planes with a shower of fire from the ground!", 1942; " Line il val, damn them!..", 1944; " We will push the bastard!", 1944; " Signed… So it will be!", 1945; " We will crush the enemy!", 1945; " And on the Pacific Ocean-we finished our campaign!", 1945). Together with Viktor Koretsky and Alexey Kokorekin, they patronized one of the aviation regiments operating in the Smolensk region. They often went there and designed albums, wall newspapers of squadrons, made graphic portraits of pilots, flight mechanics, radio operators.

In 1948, Nikolai Dolgorukov was awarded a diploma of the 1st degree at the International Poster Exhibition in Vienna. A personal exhibition of the artist – "Political poster and political satire" was held in the Central House of the Soviet Army named after M. V. Frunze. He was awarded the gold medal of the Soviet Peace Foundation at the International Exhibition "Satire in the Struggle for Peace" in Moscow. For more than thirty years, he drew for the newspapers Izvestia, Krasnaya Zvezda, Pravda, and the magazines Ogonyok, Searchlight, and Soviet Warrior (1933-1960).  He worked together with V. Denis ("The Kitchen of War", 1934; " We stand for peace and defend the cause of peace. But we are not afraid of threats and are ready to respond with a blow to the blow of the warmongers", 1934; " We stand for peace and defend the cause of peace. But we are not afraid of threats and are ready to respond with a blow to the blow of the warmongers", 1936; " We stand for peace and defend the cause of peace. But we are not afraid of threats..." (1936), "The Red Army elects", 1937; "Glory to the Stalinist falcons – conquerors of the air element!", 1937; "Long live the USSR – the impregnable fortress of socialism!", 1938; "Long live the party of Lenin-Stalin!", 1938; "Our red gunners on the fields of future battles...", 1938; "To every restless or impudent enemy...", 1939; "You do not meddle samurai, with the red the army to fight, never in the Soviet territory samurai will not be!", 1939; "Any aggressor will break his copper forehead on the Soviet border post", 1939; "Who is strong in the air, he is generally strong in our time", 1939; "The Stalinist spirit is strong and strong our army and our country!", 1939; "Greetings to the great Stalin – the father and friend of the Soviet youth!", 1940); with B. Efimov ("If the Germans want to have a war of extermination, they will get it", 1941; "Performed – had fun, retreated – wept...", 1942; "Death to the German occupiers", 1942; "Under the Soviet artillery music", 1942; "Forward to the West! Death to the German occupiers!", 1944; " The incendiaries of a new war should remember the shameful end of their predecessors!", 1947; "The Kitchen of War", 1949; "The Law", 1951); with Yu. N.Uzbyakov ("Learn to shoot at Voroshilovsky!", 1939), Together with Boris Efimov, he performed the poster "The forces of Peace are invincible!" (1949).

The artist's drawings and posters are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (CMVS of the Russian Federation), the Russian State Library, the State Museum of Political History of Russia (St. Petersburg), the Scientific Library of the Russian Academy of Arts, the GMSIR (Moscow), the Military History Museum of Artillery, Engineering Troops and Signal Troops( VIMAIViVS), the Central Naval Museum, the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V. I. Dal (State Literary Museum), Voronezh Regional Museum of Local Lore (VOKM), Samara Regional Art Museum (SOKHM), Saratov Regional Museum of Local Lore (SOMK), Smolny Historical and Memorial Museum, Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore (KOKM), Military History Museum of the Pacific Fleet, National Museum of the Republic of Adygea, Stavropol State Museum-Reserve, Belgorod State Literary Museum (BGLM), Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts named after I. I. Mashkov (Murom Historical and Art Museum, Vologda State Museum-Reserve, Novosibirsk State Museum of Local Lore (NGCM), Perm State Art Gallery, Taganrog State Literary and Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, Tver State United Museum (TSOM), State Museum-Reserve "Rostov Kremlin", Ulyanovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore named after I. A. Goncharov, Museum-Reserve of Narovchatsky District, National Museum of UR, Khabarovsk Regional Museum (KHKM named after N. I. Grodekov), in many other museum and private collections in Russia.

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