Soviet dictator Josef Stalin censor works of Russian artists of the XIX century. In mid-December in Moscow will host an exhibition with reproductions of paintings by Valentin Serov, Ivanov and Surikov, where the "father of the peoples' own hand painting the" nudity "and leave spiteful comments.
One of the most interesting exhibits - a reproduction of a portrait of the naked old man's hand Valentin Serov. The old man had a proud look of a man not ashamed of its own body, but the master of the Kremlin picture simply outraged. At reproduction Stalin crossed out in red pencil, an old man's penis, and torso izrisoval lanes - like robes prisoner wrote InoPressa.
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On the other portrait of Stalin pririsoval naked shorts and wrote: "Do not sit bare ass on the rocks!" Do unto the Komsomol and the workers' school. Issue a guy a couple of cowards! "Stalin. And in one of the drawings of Alexander Ivanov, the leader scornfully wrote: "And we've got plenty of idlers. Filosos. According to journalist La Repubblica, all these signs indicate anything about homophobia Stalin, or a hidden homosexuality.
It is likely that Stalin fell into the hands of a directory or album with the pupils' drawings of the masters of Russian painting. Many of the figures is the stamp of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, which means that all examination of future geniuses of the discipline, academic drawing, "said RIA" New Region ".
In the majority - are images of naked sitters: masculine boys, men, old men, - made, like any academic drawing, with exaggerated attention to the body. The originals of these drawings are now kept in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum.
Interestingly, some models have reminded Stalin of his acquaintances and even his fellow party members: Gorky, Kalinin and others - and he left on reproductions targeted messages that are not intended, however, for anyone but themselves. "Plekhanov! - Scrawled on the leader of one of the drawings. - Why do you call back? Coward and lishenets.
Where did reproductions, the organizers of the exhibition is not yet open, but the handwriting expert confirmed their authenticity. We only know that the 130-year anniversary of the birth of Stalin's 19 drawings will be exhibited at the Gallery Marat Gelman in Moscow. According to the curators, drawings found in private collections, but the name of the owner, as the history folder "graphics" of Stalin, yet keep a secret.