I am looking for somewhere to buy a poster-sized print of the following painting:

http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/html_pages/images/lenin8.jpg

A high resolution digital version of the image I can print myself is
also satisfactory.

I _believe_ it is painted by V. Serov.

A similar image with a relatively good resolution exists here:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Serov-Lenin_proclaims_Soviet_power.jpg

This is not the image I am looking for. I want the colour painting first mentioned.

Try contacting Aimo Minkkinen, the director of the "Lenin Museum," at:
 lenin@sci.fi  (As weird as it sounds, that email address is correct!)

Sincerely,

mizzllat

It appears that you can get a slide of the painting from the UCSD
slide collection.  I'm not sure how difficult that would be.  An image
could then be made from the slide.
http://roger.ucsd.edu/

Artist: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Serov (1910-1968)

Possible titles found during an online search:
Lenin speaking to the meeting of Russian councils
Lenin addresses the second all-Russian Congress of Soviets
Lenin addressing the 2nd Congress of the Soviets
Lenin's appearance at the second congress of Soviets

Try:
Author Serov, Vladimir Aleksandrovich, 1910-1968  
Title Lenin Proclaiming Soviet Power at the Second Congress of Soviets [slide] 
Published 1947 
 
LOCATION  CALL NUMBER  STATUS  
  AAL Slide ConCirc   379 S486.8Vl 947Len (a)         AVAILABLE 
  
Branch AAL 
Description oil on canvas 
Note Falsified images 
Summary Behind Lenin can be seen Stalin, Dzerzhinski?, and Sverdlov 
Note Slide. color 35 mm Fuji film 
ISBN/ISSN 5704 
 
---------------OR--------------------

Author Serov, Vladimir Aleksandrovich, 1910-1968  
Title Lenin Proclaiming Soviet Power at the Second Congress of Soviets [slide] 
Published 1962 
 
LOCATION  CALL NUMBER  STATUS  
  AAL Slide ConCirc   379 S486.8Vl 962Len (a)         AVAILABLE 
  
Branch AAL 
Description oil on canvas 
Note Falsified images 
Summary Under pressure from Khrushchev, Serov repainted his original
1947 version removing Stalin, Dzerzhinski?, and Sverdlov
Note Slide. color 35 mm Fuji film 
ISBN/ISSN 5704 
 
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this picture might also help you out:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Soviet_Union-1967-Stamp-0.04._Lenin%27s_Speech_on_2_Congress_of_Soviets.jpg

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Soviet_Union-1967-Stamp-0.04._Lenin%27s_Speech_on_2_Congress_of_Soviets.jpg/800px-Soviet_Union-1967-Stamp-0.04._Lenin%27s_Speech_on_2_Congress_of_Soviets.jpg">

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