The exhibition "Chosen Clio. Before the court of history "in the Historical Museum (Moscow)

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State Historical Museum invites you to a new exhibit on the history of the elected

Anastasia Litovchenko "Rossiyskaya Gazeta"

Elects history of the two empires - the Russian and Soviet - dedicated joint exhibition project of the Historical Museum and the Russian "Chosen Clio. Before the court of history", with which visitors can learn to September.

Portraits in the exhibition "elected" - starting with the image of the Grand Duchess Olga of Kiev and ending with a portrait of General Secretary Chernenko - side by side with paintings depicting scenes of Russian History X-XX centuries.

And this neighborhood, plus a small memorial collection of personal effects - shot through the coat of Vladimir Lenin, Nikolai Ostrovsky's legendary shirt, ceremonial dress diplomat Aleksandra Kollontai, concert costume Evgeny Svetlanov, tuxedo Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956 Nikolai Semyonov, jacket cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekova glove and Svetlana Savitsky, which she used while working in open space - gives the exposure of particular reality and depth.

Some pictures are shown for the first time. As an example, a previously unknown portrait of Alexander Kerensky, written by a Russian artist emigrant Sergey Mako on the order of "Grandmother of the Russian Revolution" Catherine Breshko-Breshkovskaia in 1923.

Prime Minister of the Provisional Government and the aging half-blind man was captured with a book in his hands. If this work could not be demonstrated for political reasons, the picture KF Juon "The first appearance of Vladimir Lenin at Smolny October 25, 1917" (1927), remained unknown for more art: the person of the leader and his associates have so little resemblance to the original, that the chief censor Tovstukha Ivan threatened the artist "Butyrki." State Historical Museum staff tracked down the canvas in the Russian Museum wrapped in a mop. It took three expert advice to confirm the authorship Juon, but now the picture comes back into the cultural revolution.

- In contrast to Lenin, Stalin, no one posed. Material for its iconography were photos, uncensored, - said one of the sponsors of the exhibition Tatiana Koloskov. - When the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution was organized by closed competition for a portrait of Stalin with the 1st prize of 15 thousand rubles, the conditions were tough: do the job for 3 months, based on 10 frames of newsreel film "Speech of Comrade Stalin." The first prize was not awarded. Preference was given to the work of V. Meshkov, executed in charcoal and sanguine. But she did not dare to award because of "too precise, almost naturalistic design details of individual persons and too dark background."