History and culture: Posters “Windows TASS” are presented at the exhibition in Saint-Petersburg

The exhibition "The windows overlooking the Victory" opens on April 23, 2015 in the Rumyantsev Mansion (St. Petersburg).

The exhibition presents more than 60 posters "Windows TASS" from the collection of the State Museum of the History of Saint-Petersburg. More than half of them - large-format posters, which were created by artists own stencil. 

"Windows TASS" - propaganda posters of the Great Patriotic War, created by artists and poets for Sovinformburo in Moscow, Leningrad and several other cities of the USSR during the war. Most of the posters bore a pronounced satirical nature. Posters were hung in the streets of cities: were exhibited in shop windows, billboards and hung on the walls of houses.

The fund of the Soviet painting and graphics of the State Museum of the History of Saint-Petersburg contains a collection of posters "Windows TASS" 1941-1945. These are 505 different rooms in Moscow and Leningrad "Window TASS". The collection came to the museum in 1973 from the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the poor state of preservation. Over the past 4 years it has beed done a lot of work on the restoration of posters. Among restored for an exhibition were selected the most striking and characteristic posters "Windows TASS".  

The exhibition "The windows overlooking the Victory" is organized by the State Museum of the History of Saint-Petersburg with the support of Russian Information Agency TASS.