ПОЧТА СССР (USSR POST) 1974 / И. Э. ГРАБАРЬ: В. И. ЛЕНИН У ПРЯМОГО ПРОВОДА (I. E. GRABAR: V. I. LENIN AT THE DIRECT WIRE) / Центральный музей В.И. Ленина Москва (Central Museum of V.I. Lenina Moscow) / Stamp

"В. И. ЛЕНИН - СОЗДАТЕЛЬ КОММУНИСТИЧЕСКОЙ ПАРТИИ СОВЕТСКОГО СОЮЗА, ОСНОВАТЕЛЬ ПЕРВОГО В МИРЕ СОВЕТСКОГО СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВА, ВОЖДЬ И УЧИТЕЛЬ ТРУДЯЩИХСЯ ВСЕГО МИРА. ЕГО УКАЗАНИЯ ЛЕЖАЛИ B OCHOBE СТРАТЕГИЧЕСКИХ ПЛАНОВ И ВСЕХ УСПЕШНЫХ ОПЕРАЦИЙ НА ФРОНТАХ ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ войны." - "V.I. LENIN IS THE CREATOR OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION, THE FOUNDER OF THE WORLD'S FIRST SOVIET SOCIALIST STATE, THE LEADER AND TEACHER OF THE WORKERS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. HIS INSTRUCTIONS LIEED IN THE OCHOBE STRATEGIC PLANS AND EVERYTHING X SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS ON THE CIVIL WAR FRONTS."

The stamp depicts a painting by Igor Grabar, a prominent Soviet artist. The painting is called “V. I. Lenin at the Direct Wire” and it shows Lenin in the Kremlin with two other Soviet leaders, V. V. Kuibyshev and S. M. Kirov, during the Civil War1. The painting was created between 1927 and 1933 and is now displayed in the Museum of V. I. Lenin in Moscow. The stamp was issued in 1976 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s birth and has a value of 50 kopecks3. The stamp is based on a photograph of the painting, which is why it has a yellow border and a slightly different color scheme than the original. The stamp is part of a series of stamps that feature paintings of Lenin by various Soviet artists.