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So Madly She Longed for Happiness, 1916
A five-part Ermolieff drama, drawn by Pyotr Zhitkov.
What
Pyotr Zhitkov's chromolithograph, 107 by 72 cm, for the 1916 Ermolieff drama in five parts.
Why
Ermolieff's company was Khanzhonkov's great rival, and Zhitkov drew for both.
Notice
The title runs the length of a sentence, as Russian melodrama titles did.
“The empire's last cinema seasons”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Tak bezumno, tak strastno khotelos ei schastya (1916)
- Country / studio
- Russian Empire · J. N. Ermolieff
- Designer
- Pyotr Zhitkov
- Printer / stone
- Russian Society of Printing and Publishing, Moscow
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Russian Empire film poster, chromolithograph, 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.
