Historical and documentary exhibition "1917. Drawings of the artist Y.K. Artsibushev "opened in the Exhibition Hall of the Federal Archives in Moscow.
The exhibition is timed to the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution and includes 87 drawings from more than two hundred works of the artist, stored in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.
Yury Konstantinovich Artsybushev is a professional artist and journalist, author of a series of reportage portraits of political and public figures of Russia and the Soviet state during the period of the February and October revolutions.
During the work of the State Conference in August 1917 in Moscow Yu.K. Artsibushev made about 150 portraits of participants in political battles. Having moved to Petrograd, the artist attended the meetings of the Petrograd Soviet, the Constituent Assembly, where he made live sketches of Lenin, Trotsky, Krylenko, Zinoviev, Zheleznyak and their political opponents Chernov, Spiridonov, Tsereteli, Martov, Sukhanov, Maklakov, Milyukov.
The exposition is accompanied by documentary materials, photographs, leaflets with the appeals of various political parties, ballots for elections to the Constituent Assembly.
During the opening of the exhibition, the presentation of the album "Portraits of the era of the Russian revolution. Drawings by Yuri Artsybushev from the collection of the GA of the RF »(publishing house« Kuchkovo field »).
The exhibition is open from July 14 to August 20, 2017.
Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays.
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