Respect the History
The artist is Deineka In the last year of the war, joyful colors appear in the harsh palette of Deineki. In the summer of 1944, he completed the panel he had begun even before the war "Expanse". The Great Patriotic War is not over yet. The country from the Baltic to the Black Sea shakes…
The artist is Arnautov From 1925 to 1963, Arnautov lived in San Francisco. In the early 1930s he taught at the California Art School, since 1936 for 25 years-at the Faculty of Art and Architecture of Stanford University. In the 1930s he took part in the painting of the Bashni. The picture with the view…
The artist is Ivanov Benois Alexander Nikolaevich (1870–1960) – painter, graphic artist, theater artist and critic, art historian, museum figure, one of the organizers and ideologists of the association „World of Art”. Artistic director „Russian seasons “(1908–1911), director at the Moscow Art Theater (1913–1915). Since 1926 he constantly lived in Paris. Benois is depicted against…
The artist is Efanov For the first time, Efanov turned to this topic in 1939, having performed the drawing of the same name. “The idea of the picture,” wrote the artist in memoirs, “arose on my eve of the 60th anniversary of Comrade Stalin. In the newspaper, I read a large article by Comrade Poskrebyshev….
The artist is unknown Menshikov Alexander Danilovich (November 6, 1673 – November 12, 1729). State and military leader, associate of Peter I. The son of the court groom. He began his career in the “Fierce Company”, the batman Peter I (1693). Took part in the Azov campaign. Together with Peter, “Incognito” traveled as part of…
The artist is silver Ilya Minovich Shishkan (1918-1943) – pilot, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1943). "In air battles on the Leningrad Front, a young 22-year-old fighter Ilya Shishkan acquired professional maturity and glory. During the Great Patriotic War, he made more than 400 sorties, 36 times he flew…
The artist is Serov The picture captures the climax of the operation called „Iskra “when at 9 hours 30 minutes on January 18, 1943, in the area of workers’ villages No. 1 and No. 5 off the southern coast of Lake Ladoga, breaking through the enemy’s defense, the I, a separate rifle battalion of the…
The artist is a monogramist Peter I the Great (Petr Alekseevich; May 30 / June 9, 1672, Moscow − January 28 /8 February, 1725, St. Petersburg) − The last king of all Rus’ from the Romanov dynasty (from 1682) and the first Emperor All -Russian (since 1721). He was the fourteenth child of Tsar Alexei…
The artist is Avilov The painting shows an episode preceding the beginning of the Battle of Kulikovo (September 8, 1380),-the duel of the Russian Knight, the monk of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra Alexander Peresvet with Tatarin Chelube (according to one transcription of Chelibei, television, according to other sources-Temir-Murza), which ended with simultaneous death both. The idea…
The artist is Vichtinsky The Soviet Union was the first state to establish official diplomatic relations with the Chinese People’s Republic proclaimed in 1949. On February 14, 1950, a friendship, union and mutual assistance between the USSR and China for a period of 30 years was signed in Moscow. Having shown unprecedented loyalty to the…