Dmitri Orlov

Dmitri Orlov was born in Russia in 1883. He was studying law at Moscow University but abandoned his studies to set up an underground print shop. Orlov later worked as a left-wing political cartoonist and was often in trouble with the censors.

Influenced by the work of Olaf Gulbransson at Simplicissimus, he tried to establish a similar magazine, Volynka, in Russia. However, the magazine was banned by the Russian government.

After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Orlov concentrated on producing posters in support of communism. He signed his work Moor, after a character in The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller.

Dmitri Orlov died in 1946.