The Russo-Japanese War: "Popular Prints"

From the Collection of the Russian National Library (St. Petersburg)

 

  
  1. Allegorical Prints      
     
  The Russian Hero in the
Far East		 The War of Russia with Japan
 
         
  2.Realistic Prints      
 
 
  Vanquished, Destroyed,
but not Surrendered		 Battle Scenes: the Deat of
a Japanese Cruiser (on the top)		 The Heroic Deed of Lieutenant Lesevitsky  
         
  2.Satirical Prints      
   
  Cossack Petrukha Battle Song of the Cossacks
from the River Don		 The Enemy is Terrible, but the
God is Benevolent		  
         
 

 
   Raeshnik A Silly Frog in Port Arthur How a Russian Sailor Cut off
the Japanese Nose		  
     
  Let Us Sit by the Sea
and Wait		 Battle Song of the Cossacks
from the River Don		 In Pursuit of Money  
         
 

 

Cartoons from russian satirical Magazines
and Newspapers

  
 
   
 
 
  "Yellow Peril" Russian Cossack Protecting
Europe from Japan		 England Pushing Japan
against Russia		  
         
   
  A Russian epic warrior cuts
off one head of a dragon
and sees three more behind - American, English and
Chinese
(Budilnik, 1904, no. 38)

In the Laundry of the European Civilization : you can't wash a
yellow male-dog and make him
into white (Budilnik,1904, no. 10)

 The Astronomy of Budilnik: the treacheous light of a rising sun has brightly illuminated Mars and even overcast the disorders of the 'moon' (Budilnik, 1905, no. 47)  
         
     
  "Political aristocrats": this
yellow parvenue due to her
dodges and guile managed to
get a place in the 'first' class salon (Budilnik, 1905, no. 31)		 An incongruos warrior. A Japanese imaged himself to be a Napoleon and tries to "swallow" the whole world. However, he causes only the "world'" laughter.    
 

 

 

      
  Post-cards criticising Russian military elite  
         
     
         
         
     
         
         
     
  A Sea Dance of General Oku Rozhdestvensky on a paper ship Roozevelt: Enough!  
         
     
  The Music of General Oku Quel?    
         
         
  Soviet Postcards of the 1930s  
         
     
  B. Efimov, The Soviet Gate-Way  B. Efimov, The Soviet Border-Post