Inspired by street signs in Leningrad, an old fortress in Pskov, and, Vladimir Tatlin, one the Russian fathers of Constructivism, Zhitkov’s Cyrillic fonts
Nevsky,
Pskov and
Tatlin truly possess the spirit of Russia. Zhitkov’s first offering,
Bodoni Poster Cyrillic, was commissioned by a Russian newspaper in Chicago, and rounds out this quartet nicely.