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The Black Cardinal, Petrograd 1917
A Petrograd poster for a costume intrigue.
What
A chromolithograph published by VTK at the First Poster Factory in Petrograd in 1917.
Why
Petrograd had its own poster trade, and this sheet came from it in the revolution's year.
Notice
The printer named itself a factory: the First Poster Factory.
“Intrigue in the capital”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Chernyi kardinal (1917)
- Country / studio
- Russia · VTK
- Printer / stone
- First Poster Factory, Petrograd
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Russian film poster, chromolithograph, First Poster Factory, Petrograd, 1917
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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