Additional Resources - In Search of Ourselves 

Learn more about the history and context of artwork in the Soviet Union. 


Going to the Festival by Sergei Georgievich Grigorev

Sergei Georgievich Grigorev (1918 - 1984)
Going to the Festival   1957
oil on canvas

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Dance Khorumi

Shota Ambakovich Zamtaradze (1926 - 1992)  b. Batumi, Georgia
Dance Khorumi   1961
oil on canvas mounted 

Watch the the Georgian ensemble Erisioni performed and recorded the Dance Khorumi here:



By the School Door: The Reluctant Scholar

Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov Belski (1868 - 1945) b. Shitiki, Smolensk, Russian Empire
By the School Door: The Reluctant Scholar   1897
oil on canvas

Learn more about Russian peasant life and the artist who painted By the School Door: The Reluctant Scholar here:



Ukraine Reclaims

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bozhi (1911 - 1995) b. Odessa, Ukraine
Ukraine Reclaims   1958
oil on canvas

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Scientists at the Airport

Boris Pavlovich Shvarkov (1920 - 1978) b. Noyava, Russia
Scientists at the Airport  1964
oil on canvas

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Just Graduated: We are Going into a New Life

Akhmed Abadullovich Kitaev (1925 - 1996) b. Tatar Yunki, Mordovia, USSR
Just Graduated, ‘We Are Going Into a New Life’  1953
oil on canvas

Learn more about the artist’s life and his experiences with Stalin’s policies here: 



The Impassioned Years: Partisans of Pskov

Semen Aronovich Rotnitski (1915 - 2004) b. Minsk, Byelorussia (Belarus), Russian Empire
The Impassioned Years: Partisans of Pskov.  1975-1990
oil on canvas

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Yakovenko (1919 - 2000)
Before the Storm  1982
oil on canvas

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