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1942 In Fine Arts Of The Soviet Union
The year 1942 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian Fine Arts. Events * January 1 — Exhibition «Landscape of our Motherland» was opened in the Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow. Exhibited 188 works of painting and agraphics of 88 authors. The participants were Pyotr Konchalovsky, Nikolay Krymov, Alexander Osmerkin, Konstantin Yuon, and other important Soviet artists. * January 2 — «The First Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists during the Great Patriotic War» was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.''Выставка "Работы ленинградских художников в дни Великой Отечественной войны".'' М-Л., Искусство, 1942. In August, the exhibition was shown in Moscow. The participants were Ivan Bilibin, Vladimir Konashevich, Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Aleksandr Laktionov, Vladimir Lebedev (painter), Vladimir Lebedev, Vsevolod Lyshev, Yaroslav Nik ... [...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] |