Russian White Army Posters.- 4 Propaganda Posters of White Army Commanders, comprising General Anton Ivanovich Denikin, General Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, General-Lieutenant Baron Petr Nikolaevich Vrangel, and General-Lieutenant Vladimir Zenonovich Mai-Maevskii, tear to lower corner of Denikin, a few spots, some minor fraying at edges, one 815 x 605mm, others 640 x 405mm, [c.1919-20] (4)

⁂ A rare surviving collection of commemorative White Army posters, relating to the post-Revolutionary civil war of 1918-1920.

General Petr Vrangel was a commander of the Caucasus Volunteer Army in 1919, but was forced to resign in early 1920. General Denikin briefly took his place but was also removed from office and Vrangel was reinstated as commander of the White Army. General Kaledin was a Cossack general and the poster commemorates his position as first elective Cossack leader (Ataman) of the Don Cossack Host, giving his date of death 29th January 1918 (11th February in the Gregorian calendar; he committed suicide). Mai-Maevskii also had some successes at the start of the war but by 1920 he was removed from office and died shortly after, either by suicide or heart failure.

Provenance: Brought back to the UK by a British army officer operating in the South of Russia during the civil war; and by descent until 2008.