Poster of the Volunteer Army: Restoration of a Mighty, United and Indivisible Russia (marching column, 1919)
A column of soldiers with a drummer and brass players marches down a town street under banners while townspeople, boys and a woman cheer and raise hats. The main banner promises a 'mighty, united and indivisible Russia' and a national assembly elected by universal suffrage; the slogans are broad goals with no programme, and the cheering crowd stands in for the public's consent.
- Date
- 1919
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- White Volunteer Army (Armed Forces of South Russia); artist not named
- Country
- Russia White Movement
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- White Movement
- Leader
- Anton Denikin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- Russian Civil War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesBandwagon
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (per Wikimedia Commons, PD-old-100-expired; dated 1919)
Unknown author. Commons credits the secondary source http://www.nsad.ru/index.php?issue=39§ion=11&article=559&print=1. Wikimedia Commons, File:White army poster, 1919.jpg.
Text on the object
ВОЗСТАНОВЛЕНИЕ МОГУЩЕСТВЕННОЙ ЕДИНОЙ И НЕДѢЛИМОЙ РОССИИ СОЗЫВЪ НАРОДНАГО СОБРАНІЯ НА ОСНОВѢ ВСЕОБЩАГО ИЗБИРАТЕЛЬНАГО ПРАВА [blue banner: illegible] [third banner at right: ГАРАНТІЯ ... partly legible, rest illegible]
Restoration of a mighty, united and indivisible Russia. Convening of a national assembly on the basis of universal suffrage. [blue banner: illegible] [third banner at right: 'Guarantee of ...', partly legible, rest illegible]
Commons gives the main banner text in modern spelling; the lettering on the sheet uses pre-1918 orthography (hard signs, yat), reproduced here as read. The right-hand banners are too worn to read.
