Ленин. Спи, вождь! Спи, учитель. Спи, боец (Lenin. Sleep, Leader! Sleep, Teacher. Sleep, Fighter)

A memorial sheet framed in black and red banners and wreaths. Lenin's portrait fills the centre; around it are vignettes from youth to the Civil War and a sickroom scene, with columns of printed biography and a 'Communist oath' at left and right. The banner reads 'Lenin 1870-1924, sleep, leader!'. Ranking the dead leader as teacher and fighter and attaching the party's pledges to his name is the transfer tell.

Date: 1925
Period: Interwar
Made by: Newspaper 'Rabochiy Krai' (Ivanovo-Voznesensk), poster by the artistic agency 'Reklamprovintsiya'
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Soviet Union
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Media
Regime: Soviet Union
Leader: Alexei Rykov
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Commemorate
Theme: Elections and party politics
Event: Death of Lenin
Techniques: Transfer
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (scan from the Russian State Library), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published 1925, before 1931; Commons: PD reproduction)
Unknown artist, Rabochiy Krai / Reklamprovintsiya, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, 1925. Russian State Library, via Wikimedia Commons. Commons: PD (faithful reproduction).

Text on the object

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

ЛЕНИН
[birth date, illegible in part] 1870 — 21/I 1924
СПИ ВОЖДЬ!
СПИ УЧИТЕЛЬ
СПИ БОЕЦ

[illegible: biographical text, medical bulletin and 'Communist oath' columns, small type at left and right]

Издание газеты «Рабочий Край»
Плакат исполнен Художественным агентством «РЕКЛАМПРОВИНЦИЯ»
Типо-литография «Красный Октябрь» Т-во «Основа» г. Ив.-Вознесенск
Тираж 15.000 экз.

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

LENIN
[birth date, illegible in part] 1870 — 21 Jan. 1924
SLEEP, LEADER!
SLEEP, TEACHER
SLEEP, FIGHTER

[illegible: small-type columns]

Published by the newspaper 'Rabochiy Krai'
Poster executed by the Artistic Agency 'Reklamprovintsiya'
Krasny Oktyabr typo-lithography, 'Osnova' partnership, Ivanovo-Voznesensk
Edition 15,000 copies

Only the large lettering and the imprint lines were read; the body columns are not legible at 960 pixels.