Museums: State Russian Museum celebrates 65th anniversary of the Great Victory

The exhibition in honor of 65^th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War opened on April, 29 at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

The exposition covers pictures, paintings, engravings, sculptures, created mainly in 60s–70s. The exposition represents works by Yevsei Moiseenko, Geliy Korzhev, Mikhail Bobyshev, Alexandr Ignatiev etc.

Participants of the exposition are artists of different generations and creative preferences – their works display a full spectrum of events and feelings, experienced during the hard way to Victory. Many works are based on war-time impressions and documents.

A block of works is dedicated to the celebration of the Victory anniversary, among them are two unique sketches by Eugene Lanceray – “Peace” and “Victory”. Exultation of Leningrad people is represented in the colour lithography of Vera Matyukh entitled “Victory Day”. In the work by Alexandr Ignatiev “Defenders of Leningrad” symbolic are not just figures of soldiers, their solidarity and determination, but also the very material they are made from – granite.