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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ALEXEI F. MAKSIMOV (DATES UNKNOWN)
THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE IN RUSSIA / [WAR LOAN - FORWARD TO VICTORY!] 1917.
46¼x28 inches, 117½x71 cm. St. Petersburg. Condition B+: minor wear and creases to text banners at top and bottom; reds faded. Mounted to board. Framed.
A medieval Russian knight gallops off to battle carrying a flag bearing the Romanov coat of arms. As one of the last attempts of Tsarist Russia to raise funds for their doomed involvement in World War I, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917. As a result, the Bolsheviks took power. Whether the Russian aristocracy rose to the occasion and contributed to this loan is unclear, but what is certain is that the loan was never paid back. In March 1918, Russia signed a peace treaty with Germany, left the war and repudiated all Allied war loans. Copies of this poster were sent to America from Russia and used (with English text banners) "in conjunction with a film to benefit the work of an American medical relief group" (Theofiles p. 143).
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