In 1913, on the wave of the general rise of the Russian economy, the Russian Empire saw a rapid growth of the cinematographic industry. In 1913, according to incomplete data, there were 1,412 cinemas in the country, of which 134 – in St. Petersburg and 67 – in Moscow.

The heyday of Russian artistic cinematography came during the years of World War I. In 1916, no less than 150 million cinema tickets were sold in the Russian Empire. Let’s look at the movie posters of those times. Source: humus.

1. Train of Horrors (1910s).

2. Devilish Jump (1916).

3. Abyss (1917).

4. Satan Crowned Them (1917).

5. Deep Hole Dug by a Spade (1917).

6. Sin (1916).

7. Daughter of the Tormented Poland (1915).

8. Offspring of Hell (1917).

9. How They Lie (1917).

10. One-eyed Monster (1916).

11. Love at the Walls of the Monastery (1917).

12. Dream is Killed (1910s).

13. The World is not a Monastery (1917).

14. Escape of Lisa Basova (1917).

15. Defeated Snakes (1918).

16. One Evening in the Rainy Autumn (1917).

17. Fatal Signal. The 7th series of Red Domino (1916).

18. Scherzo of the Devil (1917).

19. Mysterious Murder in Petrograd (1917).

20. It was so, but it will not be so (1917).

21. Executed by You (1917).

22. Fog (1917).

23. Backstab (1917).

24. Ulthus. Mystery of the Night (1917).

25. Favorites of Catherine the Great (1917).

26. Black Love (1917).

27. Gang of Red Domino (1916).

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