Portrait of Peter III

The artist is anthropov Pyotr Fedorovich (1728-1762)-son of the Cesarevna Anna Petrovna and Karl Friedrich, Duke of Golstein-Gottorp. The grandson of two implacable enemies: the Russian emperor Peter I and the Swedish King Charles XII. Since 1742 – heir to the Russian throne. From December 25, 1761 to June 28, 1762 – Emperor Peter III….

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Portrait of Elizabeth Petrovna

The artist is unknown Elizabeth I Petrovna (December 18/29, 1709–25 December 1761/5) – Russian Empress (since 1741). The illegitimate daughter of Peter I and Martha Skavronskaya, therefore, when official consideration of the issue of succession in 1725-1730, was never considered as one of the applicants. With the support of the guard, a coup d’etat was…

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For the happiness of the people (meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b))

The artist is Nalbandan The picture was created in the anniversary for the head of the party of Joseph Stalin and the Government of 1949 and was shown at two main exhibitions – the All -Union Artistic Exhibition and “Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in the visual arts”, but the nature of the leader’s image here is…

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Parting

The artist is soap Andrey Andreevich Mylnikov – one of the largest masters of Soviet post -war art. The People’s Artist of the USSR, the winner of the two state prizes, the Hero of Socialist Labor spent about two difficult years in the People’s militia, defending the blocked Leningrad. In a state of extreme exhaustion,…

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Victory Day

The artist is Sidorov The triumph of life after a devastating war, along with the memory of the ancestors who fought and did not return – frequent topics of artists of the post -war generation. The holiday on these canvases is deprived of bravuras – this is the time of memories, time to pay tribute…

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Portrait in. G. Farmor

The artist is Vishnyakov For many years, Vishnyakov headed the “picturesque team” of the office from buildings, a state institution, which was in charge of construction work and decorative decoration of palaces and churches of St. Petersburg and its suburbs in the 18th century. As a master of the “picturesque team”, Vishnyakov performed church images,…

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Bell. Silence

The artist is Sidorov “I myself am a village, from the Tver, from the peasants,” says Valentin Mikhailovich Sidorov, Soviet and Russian painter, landscape painter, teacher and professor. For his long and rich creative life, Valentin Mikhailovich was awarded the recognition of the public and numerous titles: academician, People’s Artist of the USSR, three times…

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Father and mother. 1918

The artist is Romanchev Leningrad painter Alexander Romanchev considered this portrait as a monument to his parents – Dmitry Isaevich (1895–1974) and Anastasia Dmitrievna (1896–1974), who lived during the revolution in the village of Great Gorenks of the Simbirsk province. The portrait is stylized for a provincial wedding photo of 1918, when the artist’s father,…

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Portrait of Princess E. A. Lobanova-Rostov

The artist is Argunov Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Lobanova-Rostovskaya, nee Princess Kurakina (1735-1802), since 1752-Princess, wife of the prince and. AND. Lobanova-Rostovsky, wife of the prince and. AND. Lobanova-Rostovsky, niece of the count of Nikita and Peter Panins, the second cousin of Emperor Peter II. According to the recollection of contemporaries, “I did not know pride, it…

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