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Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky
"Cause of death - shot».
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Leo Solomonovich Halperin - sculptor, painter. He studied the art of sculpture in Paris, there was a secretary to the board Russian Academy, a member of the editorial board of leftist artists "Helios". Since 1-st World War, he went to Turkey, then to Greece, from 1914 to 1919 he lived in Alexandria, earning private lessons and doing sculpture. About a year he worked in Jaffa and Jerusalem, then moved to Vienna. In late 1921 Halperin returned to Russia. He lived first in Moscow, where he earned mostly literary work, then moved to Leningrad, began teaching sculpting in art school for children. In Leningrad, he seriously took up painting and graphics. Halperin in his youth belonged to the revolutionary movement in 1917, probably from the romantic, than from any other motives, had a revolution. But in 1926-1927. he, in his frank recognition of the investigator, there were doubts about the ability of the Soviet system to achieve economic and cultural growth of the country. " "In future years in connection with the strengthening of the violence," those doubts intensified. Particular resentment aroused in the artist's cult leader. LS Halperin took up a pencil. And not very thinking of the consequences, painted "untouchables" - Lenin, Stalin, Kalinin - in the nude. On this occasion he had to explain to the investigator. That forced the artist to the following admission: "I have created a naturalistic caricature, which is a counter-revolutionary in content. Halperin was one of the defendants in the case of the group of artists 1934-1935,. In this case, were students and followers of the artist Kazimir Malevich - VM Ermolaev, LA Yudin, KI Rozhdestvensky, VV Sterligov and other artists, including LS Halperin, were sentenced to labor camps for 5 years as ESR (public enemy).
Eighteen months Halperin spent in the Karaganda camp, and in October 1936 he was transferred to Dmitlag, where he worked as a rate-fixer prodbazy at 1-m Dmitrovsky area. Accused already Dmitlag in counter-revolutionary agitation, he was sentenced to capital punishment and executed at Butovo range 5 February 1938. (GA RF. F. 10035. Op. 1. D. SB -40536; Krol YL Leo Solomonovich Halperin. 1886-1938. Catalog of the exhibition. S-Pb, 1994; Book of Memory "Butovskii ground. Vol. 2. S. 302).
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Among those executed at Butovo range was a lot of artists - about a hundred. Well-known painters, sculptors, graphic and modest dresser, type designer, textile workers, people in the prime of life and talent, and artists whose talent is only promised to deploy in the future.