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1991 In Fine Arts Of The Soviet Union
The year 1991 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts. After the opening of the former Soviet Union to the world (Glasnost and Perestroika), it started to show to the world more of its arts. Events * Annual exhibition of Leningrad artists — veterans of the Great Patriotic war opens in the premises of the Leningrad Union of Artists. Participants: Iya Venkova, Nikolai Kochukov, Alexander Gulyaev, Oleg Yeremeev, Ruben Zakharian, Mikhail Kozell, Gevork Kotiantz, Alexander Koroviakov, Tatiana Kopnina, Alexander Ketov, Oleg Lomakin, Yuri Neprintsev, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Alexander Pushnin, Evgeny Pozdnekov, Semion Rotnitsky, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Tatarenko, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Tkachev, Sergei Frolov, Alexander Shmidt and others. * Exhibition of works by Sergei Osipov (1915–1985) was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists. Image:Osipov-Cornflowers-7oci10bw.jpg, Cornflowers. 1976 * Exhibition of works by Gl ... [...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] |