Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin ( rus, Евгений Иванович Камзолкин}; 19 February 188518 March 1957) was a Russian and

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

artist-decorator, photographer, and creator of the

hammer and sickle The hammer and sickle (Unicode: "☭") zh, s=锤子和镰刀, p=Chuízi hé liándāo or zh, s=镰刀锤子, p=Liándāo chuízi, labels=no is a symbol meant to represent proletarian solidarity, a union between agricultural and industri ...

symbol later used in the

State emblem of the Soviet Union The State Emblem of the Soviet Union; be, Дзяржаўны герб СССР; kk, ССРО мемлекеттік елтаңбасы; lt, TSRS Valstybinis herbas; lv, PSRS valsts ģerbonis; et, NSVL riigivapp} was adopted in 1923 and was ...

Biography

Born into the family of a Moscow merchant Ivan Vasilyevich Kamzolkin, Kamzolkin was the grandson of a

serf Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which developed ...

and grew up without a father. Between 1904 and 1912 he studied at the

Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (russian: Московское училище живописи, ваяния и зодчества, МУЖВЗ) also known by the acronym MUZHZV, was one of the largest educational insti ...

under the tutorship of

Abram Arkhipov Abram Efimovich Arkhipov (russian: Абра́м Ефи́мович Архи́пов; – 25 September 1930) was a Russian realist artist, who was a member of the art collective The Wanderers as well as the Union of Russian Artists. Biogr ...

and

Nikolay Kasatkin Nikolay Alekseyevich Kasatkin (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Каса́ткин; 13 December 1859, Moscow – 17 December 1930, Moscow) was a Russian painter; considered to be one of the founders of Social Realism in Russia. ...

. In 1907, he exhibited work at the International Photography Exhibition in Turin. In 1918, he proposed a 'hammer and sickle' symbol as a decoration for the

May Day May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Festivities may also be held the night before, known as May Eve. T ...

celebrations in the

Zamoskvorechye District Zamoskvorechye District (russian: райо́н Замоскворе́чье) is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population: The district contains the eastern half of historical Zamoskvorechye ...

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. Other designs that were rejected included a hammer with an anvil, a plough with a sword and scythe with a wrench. After the

October Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...

he worked on sets for many productions in a

Zamoskvorechye Zamoskvorechye District (russian: райо́н Замоскворе́чье) is a administrative divisions of Moscow, district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal cities of Russia, federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population: The di ...

theatre, including

The Death of Ivan the Terrible ''The Death of Ivan the Terrible'' (russian: Смерть Иоанна Грозного, translit=Smertʹ Ioanna Groznogo) is a historical drama by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy written in 1863 and first published in the January 1866 issue of ''O ...

by A. K. Tolstoy. During the 1920s he lived in Pushkino. There he taught arts and crafts to the Pushkin musical and artistic labour colony. Between 1935 and 1936 he participated in the design of the

Novosibirsk railway station Novosibirsk-Glavny is the primary passenger railway station for the city of Novosibirsk in Russia, and an important stop along the Trans-Siberian Railway and Turkestan–Siberia Railway The Turkestan–Siberian Railway (commonly abbreviated as ...

References

1885 births 1957 deaths Hammer and sickle Soviet artists Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni {{USSR-artist-stub