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The Student Tanya Skvortsova, 1916
Pyotr Zhitkov's sheet for a women's-college drama.
What
Zhitkov's poster for the 1916 film about a student of the women's higher courses.
Why
The kursistka, the woman student, was a new figure in Russian life and a favourite of the screen.
Notice
Her name is the title.
“A new kind of heroine”
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 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Kursistka Tanya Skvortsova (1916)
- Country / studio
- Russian Empire
- Designer
- Pyotr Zhitkov
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Russian Empire film poster, 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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