Dies in Moscow artist Andrei Vasnetsov

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In Moscow on December 6 at the age of 85 years died artist Andrei Vasnetsov, RIA Novosti news agency reported. The artist was a representative of the "severe style" and has created more than 30 mosaics, frescoes and stained glass, including a mosaic on the facade of "October" cinema on Novy Arbat and the mosaic of the Man and the press "in the building of the newspaper" Izvestia ".

Andrei Vasnetsov was born in February 1924 in a family of artists - his grandparents were Victor Vasnetsov and his brother Apollinaris, a painter and art critic. Vasnetsov's works are represented in many major museums of Russia and the world, including the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum.

Vasnetsov created a mosaic of "Conquerors of Space" at the Museum of history of astronautics. Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga, decorative lights on the facade of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky and a number of other objects. For mosaic Man and seal "Vasnetsov was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. From 1988 to 1992, Vasnetsov was headed by the Union of Artists of the USSR.

The funeral of the artist is scheduled for Wednesday, December 9, at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery Moskvy. /lenta.ru