Final Post

Fittingly, this blog closes its doors with a pair of paintings depicting the Soviet Union's two most prominent leaders: Lenin and Stalin.  Da svidanya, everyone!

Nikolai Ivanovich Andronov: V.I. Lenin on Park Bench (1962)

Victor Oreshnikov: Portrait of Joseph Stalin (1948)

Landscape

Unknown Artist: Landscape (1952)

[maybe someone could decipher the indistinct signature at bottom right?]

Autumn Still Life

S. Klementyev: Autumn Still Life (1955)

Construction of the Council

Vladimir Aleksandrov Serov: Moscow; Construction of the Council of Economic Mutual Aid (SEV) (1950)

Surveying

Victor Panfilov: Surveying (1959)

Meshcheryakov

Boris Perobrazhensky: Portrait of Meshcheryakov, Laureate of Stalin's Prize, 

a Merited Horsebreeder at Budenny Stables (1950)

The Dove House

Ivan Andrevich Yazev: The Dove House (1949)

Old Riga

Sergei Vinogradov: Old Riga. Trokshnju Street (1924)

At a River Crossing

Nikita Chebakov: At a River Crossing (1951)

Stage Arrangement

Yuri Vnodchenko: Stage Arrangement (1956)

Man in Landscape

Valentin Bogdanov: Man in Landscape (1957)

Students of Altai

Alexsandr Malkin: Students of Altai (1950)

Washing Day

Petr Ivanovich Kotov: Washing Day (1934)

Kuzma Vasilevich Nicolaev

 Walk in the Country (1953)

Walk in the Valley (ca. 1950)

The Restorer

Andrei Kuznetsov: The Restorer (1951)

In the Cabbage Fields

Vasily Pavlovich Borisenkov: In the Cabbage Fields (1958)

Southern Sakhalin

Andrei Plotnov: Liberated, Southern Sakhailin (1946)

In the Old Park

Evgeni Vasilevich Chuikov: In the Old Park (1959)

Igor Razdrogin

 Waiting (1980)

Winter. Canal (1965)

Nude Model in the Studio

Aleksandr Mendelevich Egidis: Nude Model in the Studio (1961)

Portrait of a Student

Sergei Fedorovich Babkov: Portrait of a Student, Kosmya Blaggovich Cheyski (1963)

Igor Grabar

 Portrait of Svetlana (1933)

Is this Stalin's daughter? According to Grabar's Wikipedia entry, "...it was the 1933 Portrait of Svetlana that gave him an enormous and unwanted exposure at home and abroad. Grabar himself rated this portrait, painted in one day, among its (sic) best. The public identified its title subject as none other than Stalin's daughter (born in 1926, she could not have been Grabar's subject; the legend persisted into 1960s).

 Portrait of the Composer Sergey Prokofiev Working on the Opera 'War and Peace' (1941)

 Self-portrait in a White Smock Holding a Palette (1934)

Ploughed Field on the Gerold State Farm (1930)

Portrait of Natasha

Aleksei Victorovich Fedorov: Portrait of a Young Woman - Natasha (1954)

Stalin at the 18th Party Congress

Aleksandr Gerasimov: Stalin at the 18th Party Congress (1939)

May

Alexander Samokhvalov: May (1950)

Karmen

Vladimir Serov: Karmen (1947)

Marshal Vasilevski

Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov: Portrait of Marshal Vasilevski (1947)

[Marshal Alexandr Vasilevski. He played a big role in the Soviet war effort in WW2.]

Dedicated to Lenin

Evgeni Ivanovich Danilevski: Dedicated to Lenin (1964)

[this, of course, is Lenin's Tomb]

On the Kirgizian Frontier

Semen Afanasevich Chuikov: On the Kirgizian Frontier (study) (1938)

Old Ship

Vladimir Dmitrievich Ilyukhin: Old Ship (1956)

Pyotr Konchalovsky

 Self-Portrait in Yellow Shirt (1943)

 Still Life. The Green Glass (1933)

 Still Life. Oranges and Crumpled Paper (1946)

 The Window of the Poet (1935)

 The First Step (1932)

 Woman on a River Bank (1922)

Igor Suvorov

 Red Army Man (1958)

Portrait (1955)

Girl in a Red Dress

Nadezhda Udaltzova: Girl in a Red Dress (1957)

Nikolay Repin

 A Student (1973)

Self Portrait (1970)

Moscow Residents

Ivan Nikiforovich Stasevich: Moscow Residents of the Sixties (1959)

[If it was painted in 1959, why is it called "Moscow Residents of the Sixties"?

Is "the Sixties" a section of Moscow?]

Reclining Nude with Apples

Alexander Shevchenko: Reclining Nude with Apples (1929)

[about the painter]

Leningrad Countryside

Vasili Pavlovich Borisenkov: Leningrad Countryside, Remains of Anti-Tank Ditch (1976)