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1928 In Fine Arts Of The Soviet Union
The year 1928 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts. Events * January 29 — Exhibition of works by Moscow artistic group «A Being» (russian: «Бытиё») was opened in Moscow in the building of the old Moscow University. Exhibited 226 works of 22 authors. * March 3 — Exhibition of works by artistic group «Four Arts» (russian: «4 Искусства» was opened in Russian museum in Leningrad. Exhibited 284 works of 51 authors. The participants were Meer Akselrod, Lev Bruny, Alexei Karev, Aleksei Kravchenko, Nikolai Lapshin, Alexander Matveyev, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Piotr Utkin, and other important Leningrad artists. * The VII Exhibition of works by artists of the «Society of Arkhip Kuindzhi» was opened in March in Leningrad in the apartments of former Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (since 1932 located Leningrad Union of Artist). Exhibited 521 works of painting and sculpture of 78 autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Stepashkin
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav. It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century. Etymology Ivan is the common Slavic Latin spelling, while Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian and Montenegrin it is Иван, while in Belarusian and Ukrainian it is Іван. The Old Church Slavonic (or Old Cyrillic) spelling is . It is the Slavic relative of the Latin name , corresponding to English '' John''. This Slavic version of the name originates from New Testament Greek (''Iōánnēs'') rather than from the Latin . The Greek n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1928 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin * Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin * Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Alexei Rykov Events * October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented. May * 18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins. Births * 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach * 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania * 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist * 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988) * 10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician (d. 2021) * 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor * 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012) * 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Culture
Russian culture (russian: Культура России, Kul'tura Rossii) has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical location and its vast expanse, religious and social traditions, and Western culture, Western influence. Russian Russian literature, writers and Russian philosophy, philosophers have played an important role in the development of European thought. The Russians have also greatly influenced classical music, Russian ballet, ballet, Sport in Russia, sport, List of Russian artists, painting, and Cinema of Russia, cinema. The nation has also made pioneering contributions to Timeline of Russian inventions and technology records, science and technology and space exploration. History Language and literature Russia's 160 ethnic groups speak some 100 languages. According to the 2002 census, 142.6 million people speak Russian language, Russian, followed by Tatar language, Tatar with 5.3 million and Ukrainian language, Ukrainian with 1.8 mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Painters Of Leningrad Union Of Artists
Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Союз художников) was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called " Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists". From 1959 (when it joined the Union of Artists of the RSFSR), it was called as ''Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation''. After the renaming of the city in 1991, it became known as the ''Saint Petersburg Union of Artists''. Members Members of Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg in different years were Mikhail Avilov, Nathan Altman, Mikhail Anikushin, Piotr Alberti, Evgenia Antipova, Taisia Afonina, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Irina Baldina, Nikolai Baskakov, Evgenia Baykova, Piotr Belousov, Yuri Belov, Ivan Bilibin, Veniamin Borisov, Boris F. Borzin, Isaak Brodsky, Piotr Buchkin, Vladimir Chekalov, Evgeny Chuprun, Natalia Dik, Rudolf Frentz, Sergei Frolov, Nikolai Galakhov, Irina Getmans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Russian Artists
This is a list of Russians artists. In this context, the term "Russian" covers the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and Grand Duchy of Moscow, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities living in Russia. This list also includes those who were born in Russia but later emigrated, and those who were born elsewhere but immigrated to the country and/or worked there for a significant period of time. Alphabetical list __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z See also * Russian Academy of Arts * List of 19th-century Russian painters * List of 20th-century Russian painters * List of Russian landscape painters * List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists * :Russian artists * List of Russian architects * List of Russian inventors * List of Russian explorers * List of Russian language writers * Russian culture {{Asian artists Artists * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 In Art
Events from the year 1866 in art. Events * July 28 – 18-year-old Vinnie Ream is commissioned by the United States Congress to make a marble statue of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. * Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name. Works * Albert Bierstadt – ''A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie'' * Carl Bloch – '' In a Roman Osteria'' * Odoardo Borrani – ''At the Chorus'' * Edward Burne-Jones – '' The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon'' * Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs ** ''The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty'' ** Series of Life Sized Heads * Paul Cézanne – ''Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading'' l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – ''Agostino'' (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) * Gustave Courbet ** '' L'Origine du monde'' ** '' Le Sommeil'' * Edgar Degas – ''Steeplechase – The F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Zarubin
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French short film * ''Victor'' (2008 film), a 2008 TV film about Canadian swimmer Victor Davis * ''Victor'' (2009 film), a French comedy * ''Victor'', a 2017 film about Victor Torres by Brandon Dickerson * ''Viktor'' (film), a 2014 Franco/Russian film Music * ''Victor'' (album), a 1996 album by Alex Lifeson * "Victor", a song from the 1979 album '' Eat to the Beat'' by Blondie Businesses * Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company, forerunner of RCA Records * Victor Company of Japan, usually known as JVC, a Japanese electronics corporation originally a subsidiary of the Victor Talking Machine Company ** Victor Entertainment, or JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment, a Japanese record label ** Victor Interactiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1867 In Art
Events from the year 1867 in art. Events * Exposition Universelle in Paris helps popularize Japanese woodblock prints in the West. * Engravings of William Holman Hunt's ''The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple'' by Auguste III Blanchard are published by dealer Ernest Gambart in London in editions totalling 13,000. Awards Works * Frédéric Bazille – approximate date ** ''Family Reunion'' ** '' The Little Gardener'' ** '' Portrait of Renoir'' * George Henry Boughton – ''Pilgrims Going To Church'' * William Burges – Narcissus washstand * Giuseppe Calì – ''Death of Dragut'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta) * Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs ** Carlyle Like a Rough Block of Michael Angelo's Sculpture' ** Profiles of Julie Jackson (her niece) * Frederic Edwin Church – ''Niagara Falls, from the American Side'' * Gustave Courbet – '' The kill of deer'' * Edgar Degas – ''The Bellelli Family'' completed (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) * Gustave Doré – engraved illustr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Belajev
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy ( Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to '' Basil''. It may refer to: * Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 *Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462 * Vasili III of Russia Tsar from 1505–1533 * Vasili IV of Russia Tsar from 1606–1610 *Basil Fool for Christ (1469–1557), also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny *Vasily Alekseyev (1942–2011), Soviet weightlifter * Vasily Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Naval officer in the Cuban Missile Crisis * Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general * Vasily Chapayev (1887–1919), Russian Army commander * Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marschal * Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949), Russian weapons designer and Major General * Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), Stalin's son * Vasili Golovachov (born 1948), Russian science fiction author * Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet writer and journalist * Vasily Ignaten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов; 21 August 1894 – 20 August 1971) was a Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator, art teacher and Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, and was regarded as one of the founders and brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting. Biography Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov was born on 21 August 1894 in the town of Bezhetsk, located in the Tver Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1914, Samokhvalov enrolled in the Higher Art School of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He studied under Vasily Beliaev, Gugo Zaleman, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and Vasily Shukhayev; among his teachers, the most important was Petrov-Vodkin, with his dimensional system of paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
