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Renounce the Old World! 1917
The first line of the Marseillaise, on a Kharitonov drama.
What
Kalmanson's poster for a five-part drama, printed by I. S. Fuks in Moscow in 1917, 107 by 71 cm.
Why
The title is the opening line of the Workers' Marseillaise, the anthem of the February revolution.
Notice
A studio drama dressed in the words of the crowd.
“Commerce sings the revolution's song”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Otrechemsya ot starogo mira! (1917)
- Country / studio
- Russia · D. I. Kharitonov
- Designer
- Mikhail Kalmanson
- Printer / stone
- I. S. Fuks, Moscow
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Russian film poster, chromolithograph, I. S. Fuks press, Moscow, 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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