79 Ilya Glazunov

[SergeiSK]

June 10, 2009 marks 79 years of People's Artist of the USSR Ilya Glazunov. Congratulations to the master and I wish him a long and productive years of life. I like painting by Ilya Sergeyevich and very close to his civil and vital position. There is one picture in the collection several times and visited for several hours in his gallery.
Today, visitors to the artist came Putin. Great-Great-to
"... Putin's visit to an art gallery of Ilya Glazunov on 10 June, the birthday of the artist, which this year celebrated 79 years.
The agency quoted the prime minister, who did not pass without comment a painting of Saints Boris and Gleb: "We must fight for himself but for the country, and paid without a fight ... It can not be an example for us - lay and waited for them to kill" . (Martyr martyrs Boris and Gleb were killed on the orders of the prince of Kiev Svjatopolka in 1015 and canonized in 1071-m. Gleb, who saw his killers, the authors of his life attributed to these words: "One has already started, and came Kalkis something to that sent . - approx. Lenty.ru).
Ilya Glazunov proposed to improve their own picture of Prince Oleg and Igor "after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticized depicted on canvas the sword: A sword bit short, like a pen-knife in his hand ... They look like sausage cut. Glazunov praised Putin's eye, in response to the praise of Vladimir Putin stated: "I notice the details" "
(Lenta.ru)

Well, actually - bit short knife for a Russian hero (first picture)