Regions of Russia: Exposition marking 65th Great Victory anniversary kicks off in Kaliningrad

The Kaliningrad Art Gallery has announced about its upcoming exposition of pictures, drawings and sculpture entitled “Long ago did the war finish”. The exhibition is called to mark 65^th Victory anniversary in the Great Patriotic War.

The exposition is going to display over 100 works from the holdings of the Kaliningrad Art Gallery.

Pictures, represented at the exhibition, immortalize courageous images, characters, historical events of that time, which impressively and truthfully reflect the origin of Russian patriotism. These are portraits of war heroes created by M. Yeshchenko and B. Preobrazhensky in 1943 and 1944. Although the Reichstag was a long way off, these heroes showed a strong belief in Victory.

The exhibition will also unveil pictures by Ivan Yevstigneev “Germans in Minsk”, Egil Veidemanis “Moscow in November 1941”, Vladimir Yarkin “Leningrad in 1942”, and also pictures created in victorious 1945 – “Reichstag” by Boris Fyodorov, “Captive fritzes of East Prussia” by Ilya Denisov and many others.

The drawing section of the exposition will familiarize visitors with reportage’s sketches from front made by the prominent book illustrator Orest Vereisky and drawings of Yuri Neprintsev.