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In the Claws of the Double-Headed Eagle
The fallen empire's eagle as a film villain.
What
Kalmanson's poster for a four-part drama with the actor N. A. Saltykov, printed by I. S. Fuks in Moscow in 1917, 107 by 72 cm.
Why
Weeks after the abdication, the imperial eagle became a villain on the cinema hoardings.
Notice
Beneath the title the poster borrows the song line "Arise, working people!".
“The old emblem turned on itself”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- V tsepkikh lapakh dvukhglavogo orla (1917)
- Country / studio
- Russia
- 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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