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When I Served as a Post Coachman
A folk song becomes a four-part drama.
What
Kalmanson's bill for "a strong drama of everyday life in four parts, after the well-known folk song", printed by I. S. Fuks in Moscow in the 1910s.
Why
Moscow studios filmed popular songs the audience already knew by heart.
Notice
The bill names the song as its source.
“A song everyone sang”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Kogda ya na pochte sluzhil yamshchikom (1916)
- Country / studio
- Russian Empire
- Designer
- Mikhail Kalmanson
- Printer / stone
- I. S. Fuks, Moscow
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Russian Empire film bill, I. S. Fuks press, Moscow, 1916
- 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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