Part of the collection of pieces relating to Intourist, priced at £700,000 by AntikBar at Firsts.
The group of 521 items - comprising 190 posters, 47 magazines, 211 brochures and 73 luggage labels - published from 1929 to the 1980s is priced at £700,000.
Built up over 30 years by the firm’s Kirill Kalinin, the collection includes several works displayed in the exhibition Around the World with an Easel held at the State Russian Museum in Moscow and St Petersburg in 2009 and several others.
Among the brochures is the 1930s example here advertising health resorts in the Soviet Union and a poster for the USSR Agricultural Exhibition of 1939.
Part of the collection of pieces relating to Intourist, priced at £700,000 by AntikBar at Firsts.
