«In 1942, the Committee on the Arts invited Corina to paint a picture that inspired the image of the great ancestors of the Soviet soldiers and officers . All his knowledge of the spiritual beauty and qualities of the Russian people he put in his triptych "Alexander Nevsky". The impact of the image was created is that the reproduction of Alexander Nevsky was decorated front-line dugout and front-line newspaper. A copy of the huge painting made by a group of soldiers that stormed the Great Novgorod, was installed at the entrance to the city. "

Not less important work of another prominent Soviet masters - of Alexander Bubnov, known worldwide as the author of landmark paintings, "Morning at the Kulikov field," which sketches can be seen on the show. Bubnov, like Corinne - successor to the aesthetic ideal of "In Search of Russia", which rendered the constant mythological Russian historical figures. If in the prewar years and during the Great Patriotic artists approached the theme of patriotism, often by personalizing it through the images of ancient Russian defenders of the Earth, the post-war period appears to them more poeticized. In particular, Alexander Bubnov, creates a whole suite of picturesque on Pushkin's "The Song of Wise Oleg", a few paintings from this series will be presented at the exhibition.

Among the exhibits - historical work of the master, "extolled by poetry realism" Mikhail Nesterov (so he called his style), works Theodore Feodor, served for many years the chief artist at the Bolshoi Theatre; of battle painters of the War Artists Studio them. MB Grekov.
Rounding out the exhibition of the recognized masters of the battle scenes of the first half of XX century - "Putting the Turkish soldiers captured by Erzurum" Ivan Vladimirov and "Cossacks in Galicia. Before Brusilovsky breakthrough "by Franz Roubaud (author's painting" Borodino Panorama "). On their canvases depict the victorious events of World War I - the last in the history of the Russian imperial arms.