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title: 'Город — мануфактуру, деревня — хлеб (Town: Manufactured Goods; Village: Bread)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kustodiev-city-manufactures-village-bread-1925/
description: A worker in a cap holds up a flower-patterned bolt of cloth beside stacked fabric, buttons and thread; a peasant woman in a headscarf gestures to three…
section: Collection
---

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# Город — мануфактуру, деревня — хлеб (Town: Manufactured Goods; Village: Bread)

A worker in a cap holds up a flower-patterned bolt of cloth beside stacked fabric, buttons and thread; a peasant woman in a headscarf gestures to three sacks of grain. The slogan splits the exchange into two halves, 'Town: manufactured goods' and 'Village: bread'. Two smiling ordinary people stand in for the whole town and the whole countryside, the plain-folks tell.

## Text on the object

Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ГОРОД
МАНУФАКТУРУ —
ДЕРЕВНЯ
ХЛЕБ

Б. Кустодиев   1925
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
TOWN
MANUFACTURED GOODS —
VILLAGE
BREAD

B. Kustodiev   1925
```

The signature initial at lower left is read as 'Б.' and is small.

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