Nikolayev Y.S.
Uritsky Square
- 1941-1942
- Canvas, oil
- 60 x 77
- The State Russian Museum
The importance of the panorama of the Siege of Leningrad painted by Yaroslav Nikolayev during the Second World War cannot be overestimated. This painting is an important artistic document. Depicting the sufferings and indomitable will of the people of Leningrad, the artist incarnated the city’s outer appearance with a special poignancy. Nikolayev discerned beauty in human faces, acts of heroism and cityscapes. Uritsky Square was the official name of Palace Square in Leningrad from 1918 to 1944.
Пинчук Вениамин Борисович
Балтиец
- Gypsum
- The State Russian Museum
Курдов Валентин Иванович
Балтийцы
Быльев-Протопопов Николай Михайлович
Баррикада. Ленинград
- Cardboard, watercolours, gouache
- The State Russian Museum
Корецкий Виктор Борисович
Будь героем!
Pakhomov A.F.
В очаге поражения
- Paper,
- The State Russian Museum
Рончевская Людмила Алексеевна
Дорога под семью мостами
- Paper, ink, graphite pencil
- The State Russian Museum
Лишев Всеволод Всеволодович
За водой
- Bronze
- The State Russian Museum
SEROV V. A.
Защитим город Ленина
Шиллинговский Павел Александрович
Из цикла "Осажденный город"
Анушина Антонина Ивановна
Ленинград летом 1941 года
- gouache
- The State Russian Museum
Конашевич Владимир Михайлович
Ленинград. Утро
- Paper, watercolours
- The State Russian Museum
SEROV V. A.
Наше дело правое - Победа будет за нами
Pakhomov A.F.
Ребята, заменим отцов и братьев, ушедших на фронт! Поможем убрать урожай!
Тырса Николай Андреевич
Тревога
Быльев-Протопопов Николай Михайлович
У Медного всадника зимой. На Неву за водой
- Paper, gouache, whiting, watercolours
- The State Russian Museum
Луганский Петр Иванович
Старшина Храпов
- Paper, ink, sepia
- The State Russian Museum
Kuchumov V. N.
At the Field of Mars
- 1942
- Canvas, oil
- 76 х 109,5
- The State Russian Museum
Vasily Kuchumov often painted the facades and interiors of the suburban palaces outside Lenin - grad. During the Second World War, he produced a large series of paintings depicting the first winter of the Siege of Leningrad. The artist portrays the stoical struggle of the city and poignant moments from the lives of the citizens, who courageously withstood all the hardships and privations of the long siege. Kuchumov depicts snow-covered ships, the sky ablaze with the fire of incendiary bombs, frozen streets and embankments, and citizens descending to the River Neva at Senate Square for water. These were the everyday events of the city of Leningrad during the war. These works were first shown a year later at an exhibition of Leningrad artists’ works from 1941 and 1942 held in the city of Perm (then Molotov), where many of Leningrad’s cultural institutions had been evacuated. In 1943 they were included in the major exhibition Second World War in Moscow.
Kuchumov V. N.
Getting Water
- 1942
- Canvas, oil
- 58 х 141,5
- The State Russian Museum
Nikolayev Y.S.
Portrait of Maria Petrova
- 1942
- Canvas, oil
- The State Russian Museum
Maria Grigorievna Petrova (1906–1992): Leningrad radio artist. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1978). Wife of the artist.
Maria Petrova worked as a political instructor at the House of Radio in Leningrad during the war. A member of the civil defence team of the Leningrad Radio Committee, she helped to save people from under the rubble of destroyed houses. From 1942 onwards, she performed at the Maxim Gorky Theatre of Drama, recreated during the war and known as the legendary Blockade Theatre. Petrova’s voice inspired the citizens of Leningrad both during the siege and after the war. She worked on the radio for a total of fifty-six years.
Once, during the Siege of Leningrad, Maria Petrova exchanged her bread ration for a collection of poems by Alexander Pushkin. Thirty years later, she presented the book to the poet Sergei Davydov, who dedicated the poem A Gift to her:
Slim volume of poetry, so few like you:
Exchanging her last dry slices of bread
For a collection of Pushkin’s verses
In the hungry winter of ’41...
Maria Petrova was a regular wartime visitor to the Union of Artists, where she read out the stories of Vladimir Korolenko. Her future husband, Yaroslav Nikolaev, made sketches of her while she was reading. The image in the portrait is both touching and inspired. The harmony of the light-pink and white tones of the clothes and the softly painted background is natural and beautiful. The notes of lyricism in the sitter’s outer appearance and the painterly resolution are particularly distinctive in comparison with such other works by the artist as Self-Portrait and Portrait of Vasily Vikulov.
Анушина Антонина Ивановна
Быльев-Протопопов Николай Михайлович
Конашевич Владимир Михайлович
Корецкий Виктор Борисович
Курдов Валентин Иванович
Лишев Всеволод Всеволодович
Nikolayev Y.S.
1899, Shavli, Kovno Province — 1978, Leningrad
Painter. Studied at Kazimir Zelenevsky’s studio in Tomsk (1917); Tomsk University, law department (1917–1918); Irkutsk University, history and philosophy department (1919–1920); State Free Art Studios in Irkutsk (1925–1928). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1927). Member of the Leningrad Union of Artists (1932), chairman of its board (1948–1951). Lived in Leningrad during the Siege; created a number of paintings dedicated to the heroic defence of the city (1941–1945). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1956), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1975).
Pakhomov A.F.
1900, Varlamovo, Vologda Province — 1973, Leningrad
Painter, graphic artist, monumentalist, book artist, sculptor, painter of portraits, genre scenes and watercolours, illustrated children’s books and journals, designed posters. Studied at the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing (1915–1917) in Petrograd / Leningrad; Petrograd State Free Art Studios / VKhUTEMAS / VKhUTEIN (1922–1925); Academy of Arts, graphic department (1926). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1921). Worked for the Okna ROSTA political poster studio (1921) and various publishing houses (1923–1925); produced monumental interior paintings for public buildings in Leningrad (1920s — 1930s). Taught. Professor (1949). Author of the book About My Work (1968–1969). Member of the arts council at the “Children’s Literature” and “Artist” publishing houses. Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1945), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1963), People’s Artist of the USSR (1971), corresponding (1958) and full (1964) member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Winner of the Stalin Prize (1946) and State Prize (1973). Awarded a major gold medal at the International Exhibition in Paris (1937) for the Children of the Soviet Land panel made for the Soviet pavilion.
Пинчук Вениамин Борисович
Рончевская Людмила Алексеевна
SEROV V. A.
1910, Emmaus, Tver Province — 1968, Moscow
Painter, graphic artist, book and poster designer. Studied at the VKhUTEIN / Institute of Proletarian Fine Art / Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1927–1933) in Leningrad. Member of the Union of Artists (1932). Taught at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1933–1942). Designed posters for the Fighting Pencil group of artists (1941–1942). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1956), People’s Artist of the USSR (1958). Corresponding member and academic secretary (1947), full member (1954), Vice President (from 1958), President (1962–1968) of the USSR Academy of Arts, corresponding member of the East German Academy of Arts (1963). Member of the Awarding Committee for the Lenin and State prizes (from 1960). Winner of the Stalin Prize (1948,1951). Awarded medals “For the Defence of Leningrad”, “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”, “For the Victory Over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945” (1944–1945), Order of Lenin (1957), gold medal from the USSR Ministry of Culture (1958), silver medal at the World Exhibition in Brussels (1958), Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Тырса Николай Андреевич
Шиллинговский Павел Александрович
Андреева-Петошина Анна Васильевна
Астапов Иван Степанович
