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)