In the XIXth century there was a Department of decency; its duty was to censor the issued folk pictures, but, in fact, it was concerned with politics rather than people's morals. Russian erotic caricature existed and developed along with the traditional caricatures. But "risque" caricatures were drawn in handwritten journals, during merry-meetings (especially of officers), in the lines of scripts, and in artists' albums. Among the numerous caricatures of A. Orlovsky one can find "Fountain made of phalli with nymphae and tritons"; K. Bryullov's irony is evident in some mythological drawings for "inner circle"; the artist also drew some caricatures as well. The flourishing of Russian graphic erotic art happened in the late XIXth - early XXth centuries (V. Milashevsky, Y. Annenkov, K. Somov,and some others).

Under the Soviet regime erotic caricatures were created but lay "in the table"(not published), it was a kind of escape from reality. Although it is impossible to speak about S. Eisenstein's escape he, like his great colleague F. Fellini, drew erotic caricatures along with his work at "Bronenosets (Warship) 'Potyomkin'"

In 1960-1970s some frivolous caricatures began to be published in some Baltic newspapers and magazines because of special status of those republics in the Soviet Union, besides the level of artistic graphics was very high. With the beginning of "perestroika" erotic humour has become the absolute leader on the pages of numerous newspapers and magazines, especially youth editions. In 1991 in Chelyabinsk the first exhibition of erotic caricature was held, it proved that a modern artist who drew such caricatures can not be immoral. It is fair to say that he/she is like a naughty "jester" who is allowed to tell the uncovered truth. Any caricaturist helps the spectators become free from formalities. In 1990s erotic luboks full of irony and frivolous tricks appeared again. Those are refined works by