In 1922 Lebedev made a series of twenty-three drawings in ink, gouache, and lead pencil, United by a common theme and the name "Street revolution". Later, the artist gave her a new, more accurate name: Panel revolution".
The drawings, with unknown Lebedev satirical force characteristics, create images of urban scum, street girls and their cronies, deserters in the marine cap and exaggerated wide flared trousers document the riffraff that at the beginning of the NEP loitering without work at the St. Petersburg sidewalks, and to some extent determined then the image of a city street. According to contemporaries, Lebedev gave her "immortal graphic expression.
(N. Punin. Vladimir Lebedev. - Leningrad, 1928. - C. 14.).
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