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, Volynka
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 Schiller's play, The Robbers.
Dmitri Orlov died in 1946.
Dmitri Orlov,
Tsarist Regiments & the Red Army:
What they fought for before/What
they fight for now (1919)
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