Saturday, December 22, 2012

Happy Holidays!

Hi, all.  I'm taking a break for the holidays and won't be posting regularly until 2013.

Hope you have a wonderful and happy time of it.

Friday, December 21, 2012

Constructing Lake Komsomol

Nikolai Karakhan: Constructing Lake Komsomol (late 1930s-early 1940s)

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Fedor Reshetnikov

 Home for the Holidays (1948)

Peace (1950)

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Threshing

Yuri Podlyaski: Wheat Threshing (1948)

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Fisherman and Sick Son

Andrei Andreevich Tutunov: Fisherman and his Sick Son (1964)

Monday, December 17, 2012

The Bridge Builders

Dmitri Zhilinski: The Bridge Builders (study) (1959)

Friday, December 14, 2012

Reading by the Oven

Oksana Dmitrievna Sokolovskaya: Reading by the Oven (1961)

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Mother and Daughter Bathing

Vitaly Tikhov: Mother and Daughter Bathing (1929)

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Operator

Marat Semenovich Shanin: Telephone Operator from the Factory Switchboard (1958)

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Greeting the First Cosmonaut

Mikhail Khmelko: The Greeting of the First Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, on his Return to Earth (1962)

Monday, December 10, 2012

Albert Anni

Albert Anni was an Estonian painter during the Soviet era.

 November Lake (ca. 1960)

 Summer Bouquet

Friday, December 7, 2012

Alexei Pavlovich Belykh

 Lastochkina, the Milkmaid from Sverdlova (1959)

 Winter Fairy Tale (1963)

Winter at Peak (1963)

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Sevastopol Fishermen

Lyubov Ivanovna Kachalina: Sevastopol Fishermen (1960)

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Still Life with Bread

Vladimir Stozharov: Still Life with Bread (1959)

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Morning at Gurzuf

Petr Ivanovich Kostinski: Morning at Gurzuf (1958)

Monday, December 3, 2012

Salvage Cranes

Shota Ambakovich Zamtaradze: Salvage Cranes at the Port of Odessa (1956)

Friday, November 30, 2012

Lenin at the KomSoMol Convention

Aleksandr Lomykin: Lenin at the Third KomSoMol Convention (1969)

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Musical Interlude

Leonid Georgievich Filatov: Musical Interlude (1956)

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

In the New House

Nikolai Fedorovich Novikov: In the New House (1961)

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Toys

Pavel Kuznetsov: Toys (1960)

Monday, November 26, 2012

Answering the KomSoMol's Call

Isaak Iosifovich Tartakovski: Answering the KomSoMol's Call 
(Reconstruction in the Donbass) (1952)

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Vacation Break

I'll be on vacation until next Monday, when posting will resume.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Richard

Konstantin Mefodevich Maksimov

 A Warrior of the Chinese Revolution (1955)
 
 Russian Still-life in Winter (1978)

Sashka the Tractor Driver in Virgin Lands (study) (1954)

Monday, November 19, 2012

Valentina Savelieva

 Celebration (1970)

 Enisey River (1965)

 Family (1974)

 Morning (1974)

 Uzbek Singer (1961)

Women from Mar'in Posad (1965)

Friday, November 16, 2012

At the Airport

Boris Pavlovich Shvarkov: At the Airport (1964)

Thursday, November 15, 2012

April in Muftuga

Vladimir Fedorovich Stozharov: April in the Village of Muftuga (1967)

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Still Life with Medals

Anatoli Yurevich Nikich-krilichevski: Still-life with the Medals of M. Isaakova (1951)

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Milkmaids

Pavel Fedorovich Shardakov: Milkmaids, City of Volgograd (1967)

Monday, November 12, 2012

Engels Kozlov

Engels Kozlov (1926-2007) was a Soviet painter granted the title of "People's Artist of Russia."

 Baking Bread (1967)

 Coal Mine at Inta (1963)

 Golden Autumn: Lady with Red Hat (1962)

Portrait of Aleksei Vladimirovich Kosov, Coal Miner at Mine No. 5, City of Inta (1963)

Friday, November 9, 2012

Aleksandr Georgievich Gulyaev

 Nomad's Tent, Virgin Lands (1955)

 Raisa Mittailovna Nevor, Golden Grainfield in the Virgin Lands (1955)
[this heroine of Soviet labor seems a mite...grumpy]

 The Nursing Mother (1970)

 Waiting for the Mail in the Virgin Lands (1957)

Winter in the Village (1966)

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Nikolai Terpsikhorov

My Wife Nadya (1944)

 Ladies Walking Along a Country Road

 River Kama, A Tributary of the Volga (1950)

The Snows Have Started To Thaw: Early Spring (1946)

Turkmenian Weavers (1935)