The size is continental 6" x 4", postally unused and unmarked, published by State Publishing House of Visual Arts and Musical Literature, Ukrainian SSR, circulation 10,000 copies, extremely small by Soviet standards. The artist's name, V. Zadorozhnyy, is printed in the lower left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork is an offset print of his 1959 oil-on-canvas painting depicting a young woman and a girl in Ukrainian national attire, deep in thought contemplating the "beloved visage" of Vladimir Lenin.

In excellent condition, showing only negligibly small corner bumps.

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The size is continental 6" x 4", postally unused and unmarked, published by State Publishing House of Visual Arts and Musical Literature, Ukrainian SSR, circulation 10,000 copies, extremely small by Soviet standards. The artist's name, V. Zadorozhnyy, is printed in the lower left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork is an offset print of his 1959 oil-on-canvas painting depicting a young woman and a girl in Ukrainian national attire, deep in thought contemplating the "beloved visage" of Vladimir Lenin.

In excellent condition, showing only negligibly small corner bumps.

Two Ukrainian peasant women looking at Lenin. What were they thinking? Were they trying to correlate the "beloved visage" with what Lenin and his Soviet Power had wrought in Ukraine? Were they going to return to their collective farm and toil from dawn till dusk earning chits in the bookkeeper's ledger, feeling warm and fuzzy that they had stood so close to their beloved Ilyich? Perhaps they were lamenting his early demise which brought Stalin to power? We will never know, and V. Zadorozhnyy the artist is not around to tell us, but the painting is clearly a thought-inspiring work of art.
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