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News: Vladimir Varzhanskii is not Vladimir Varmanski

Poster by Vladimir Varzhanski
Vladimir Varzhanski, War Loan, 1916
Poster by Vladimir Varzhanski
Vladimir Varzhanski, War Loan, 1916

Poster by Vladimir Varzhanski
Poster by Vladimir Varzhanski
Vladimir Varzhanski, War Loan, 1916

In many western publications the name of the russian artist Vladimir Varzhanskii (владимир варжанский) is mis-spelled as Vladimir Varmanski, probably due to an incorrect transliteration of cyrillic text into latin text. Nothing is known about the artist, and the three posters above for the tsarist governement are all the works I found from him. But look at the typography!

Let's hope this little note helps to give Varzhanskii the credit he deserves. The illustrations above are from Nina Baburina's book "Russian poster of World War One", Iskusstvo i Kultura, Moscow (1992).

Vladimir Varzhanskii




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