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Pyotr Vasilyevich Miturich (Пётр Васи́льевич Миту́рич) (September 12 1887 – October 27, 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist and inventor of motion machines. Miturich was a close friend of Russian futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov.

Life and work
Pyotr Miturich was born in Saint Petersburg, in a military family. From 1899 to 1905 Pyotr Miturich attended the Pskovsky kadetsky korpus, a military school in Pskov, Russia, but was expelled in 1905. From 1906 to 1909 he attened the Kievskoe khudozhestvennoe uchilishche in Kiev, Ukraine and in 1909 awas accepted into the Imperatorskaya akademiya khudozhestv in Saint Petersburg. In 1915 Miturich participated in a Mir Iskusstva exhibition. In 1916 Miturich is drafted into the Russian army and fights in World War I on the Polish front. During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, he continues to serve, now in the Red Army. Throughout this period he creates a variety of illustrations and posters.