Background
Georgy Pashkov was born in 1886.
Georgy Pashkov was born in 1886.
Georgy Pashkov and his brothers Pavel and Nikolai graduated from the Stroganov Art School and became successful Moscow artists.
Author of the first postage stamps of the Soviet Union (1923). He belongs to the family of iconographers of Moscow. The Pashkov family for decades had a high reputation.
They were patronised by the aristocracy as well as the Imperial family.
They were appreciated as decorators. The Pashkov brothers participated in a number of important decorating projects supported by the Russian Royal Family.
Foreign this work, they received the honorary title of Court Artists. Another field of the Pashkovs" artistic activity was commercial advertising.
In particular, Georgy Pashkov created a significant number of advertising posters in the pre-World War I times.
In 1923, Georgy Pashkov created the design of the first Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics stamps (First All-Russia Agricultural Exhibition issue).