Perhaps Corinne recalled stories about the assault Seelow Heights - lines of Nazi defenses on the approaches to Berlin. Here, our command, headed by Zhukov has exercised a surprising tactic: the Germans knew that the Soviet army artillery preparation usually begins early in the morning, because it is more convenient for infantry and tanks to attack in daylight. And suddenly the darkness of the night cut the light of powerful searchlights. Blinded by the Nazis were confused, and our tanks and infantry attacks are objects visible. The enemy was defeated, the Soviet troops suffered minimal losses. About crafty maneuver Zhukov said a lot. The artist was thinking and unusual fate of the commander, past the path from student to skornyatskoy studio to the famous marshal. Perhaps there were other thoughts and reflections, but the conclusion is this: the first sketch for the painting to write with Georgi Konstantinovich.
 
In autumn 1945 Marshal and the artist met in Moscow. "Two or three sessions, you will probably be enough?" - Said Zhukov. "We have no less than fifteen and even twenty and a half hours. I relate to his work very seriously, just like you to his.
 
In Moscow, Zhukov pose could not - urgent business required his presence in Berlin grouping. But civilians in Germany has not yet allowed, and the marshal ordered to wear the uniform of a captain of the artist. Morning of October 16 Corinne flew to Berlin. A day later in a letter wrote: "Tomorrow at 12 am the first session. Last place in the winter, in December.
 
From the first sketches by persistently searching for the track of the portrait. A remarkable figure, made October 19: Zhukov sits openly posing. In the following figures Corinne accentuated the movements of the figures, which deprives her of forced posturing when relaxed.
 
Time allocated for work in a makeshift studio, is not enough. He painted Marshal wherever he could find. One aide Georgy Zhukov gave Korin photograph - Zhukov and Rokossovsky accept foreign delegations. With photo painter went to the commemorative meeting marking the anniversary of October. Zhukov was sitting in the presidium. Time to draw something! But the notebook in his pocket was not there. And the sketch was made on the back of the photograph ...
 
Composing, the author took into account the particular coloristic and construction. For example, a bright dress, multiple orders, medals demanded the maximum local background, but dynamic, able to withstand mottled colors.
 
For the portrait artist is not only important to draw a model, but to learn much of what affects the character, thinking of the portrait. And Corinne, following the tradition of full-scale, walked the ruined Berlin, among the ruins and remnants of defensive works, I imagined the recent ferocious battles, and read on the walls and columns of the Reichstag many inscriptions made by the soldiers were victorious.
 
Putting the last touch, Corinne showed a portrait of Zhukov. "I like it. And the face of the field. Thank you ".-" And what does the "field"? "- Asked the artist. "This is what happens on the battlefield", - said the marshal. Then took out the official form and wrote to the chairman of the Committee on the Arts: "My portrait ... I think, done well. It truly reflects reality. "
 
Study for the painting has outgrown the framework of the preparatory material. Portrait ranked among the masterpieces of Soviet portraiture. But sometimes you can hear that Corine carried away the grand marshal's party appearance, too much attention paid regalia. Is this true?
 
The artist could write a hero and not in full uniform, and in "working" in the everyday situation headquarters office. But the author's intent is clear-to create a portrait front. Not because it marks valor Corinne wrote with so much attention? They have a visible life of military glory. The portrait of orders, medals flashing all the colors of the rainbow - a fireworks display, fireworks Victory! And contrast them chased, black and white in color face.
 
If we look at the photograph of Marshal, made during the signing of the act of unconditional surrender of Germany, we see compressed lips and knitted brows man, the whole appearance of which suggests a certain excitement and stimulation. In the portrait is deleted all accidental. Thoughtfully and calmly face the commander. Tight folds of those corners of her lips pursed, expansion eyebrows, high forehead - this is the image of the maximum collected, energetic, image organizer, capable of light weight, to win over.
 
The meaning of a color portrait of the solution is revealed more in comparison with other works on similar topics, and especially with the triptych "Alexander Nevsky". In his portrayal of the legendary hero of intense sound red and black and blue colors, gold and silver.
 
Corinne has repeatedly said that the art began to engage in "a calling, but by birth as a matter of ancestral inheritance." However wrong to think that Paul D. mechanically transferred to the modern techniques of icon painting portrait. The only thing the author unequivocally followed the tradition - in an effort to fill the image of spirituality and grandeur. Even in reproduction palpable monumental work, has adopted special quality artistic content - to connect a large civilian thought and perfect plastic form.
 
Extensive and varied portrait work Corina PD. His works reveal the image of a contemporary, enjoyed broad popularity. But, as the artist himself, painting, devoted to Marshal Zhukov - the only portrait, which he did not want to leave, which he gladly would have left at home.
 
Knowing the attitude of the artist's portrait, the mood, which owned by the author during the creation of paintings, the widow of the wonderful wizard Praskovya Tikhonovna Corina recalls:
 
- Portrait of Marshal Zhukov - one of the best works of the artist.
 
There is no single colorless, indifferent strokes. This work confirmed the words of Paul Dmitrievich Korin, who had heard from him again: a picture of the artist must know the effect of each stroke, they are laid, responsible for each line, they carried out for each circuit for each silhouette - will need to find them, they create . More importantly - that there was no "hand of sleeping.
 
The essence of the portrait of Zhukov is not limited resemblance, although it absolutely. In the product can hear the thunder of war and the echo of the Victory, it embodies the pride of the people who faithfully believed in the triumph of good. The image has a specific personality portrait of an era.