Year: 1986

Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1986, with the monument of Mikhail Artsybashev in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara). Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (1878-1927) was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator. Following the Russian Revolution, in 1923 Artsybashev emigrated to Poland where he died in 1927.