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The large-scale exhibition project of the Russian Academy of Arts “Faith – Feat – Victory” is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The exhibition presents about 200 exhibits, including paintings, graphics, sculpture, posters, photographs, archival documents and multimedia from the museum collection of the Russian Academy of Arts, the M.B. Grekov Studio of War Artists and the V.V. Vereshchagin Studio of Artists of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Vologda Regional Art Gallery and the Memorial Museum of the Creative Workshop of S.T. Konenkov, the Scientific Archive and Scientific Library of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and Moscow, the Zvezda TV Channel and the MIA Russia Today, the Creative Workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan, as well as from author collections and private collections.

The exhibition will include works by several generations of artists – from academic veterans of the Great Patriotic War, children of war – artists of the generation of the sixties and seventies to contemporary artists of the younger generation. Among them are such names as Boris Nemensky, Lev Kerbel, Vladimir Pereyaslavets, Evgeny Vuchetich, Sergey Konenkov, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Evgeny Lanceray, Sergey and Alexey Tkachev, Mikhail Anikushin, Efrem Zverkov, Andrey Mylnikov, Viktor Ivanov, Pyotr Ossovsky, Pavel Nikonov, Zurab Tsereteli, Tatyana Nazarenko, Irina Starzhenetskaya, Viktor Kalinin, Alexander Teslik, Alexander Rukavishnikov, Andrey Kovalchuk, Vasily Nesterenko, Lyubov Savelyeva, Dashi Namdakov, Khamid Savkuyev, Aydin Zeynalov and others.

The visitors will see sections dedicated to various milestones of the Great Patriotic War, bloody battles, the feat of the Soviet soldier, civilians who united together to save the Motherland and resist the fascist invaders, the difficult roads of war, the joy of the long-awaited victory. Many works by artists who fought at the front are unique in that they were created at the front. The exhibition is a single space of images of memory created by several generations of authors in different materials and techniques, demonstrating the changing visual language of the second half of the 20th - first quarter of the 21st centuries. The importance of the Russian academic school and the outstanding role of fine art in the general cause of preserving historical memory are shown using the example of works by painters and graphic artists dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.

A large section of the exhibition is dedicated to the defenders of the Fatherland, the descendants of the unforgettable heroes of the Great Patriotic War, who defended the sovereignty of the Motherland and the safety of its citizens in different years. Works by academicians and young artists - interns and graduates of creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts dedicated to the Second World War, as well as works by servicemen from master classes within the framework of the rehabilitation program after the Second World War - reveal the multifaceted possibilities of visual arts in working with historical material and modern events in the context of a single historical and cultural space. Affirming the creative dialogue between artists, these works clearly demonstrate the continuity of generations, the transfer of the tradition of spiritual service to the Fatherland along with the basics of mastery.

A special section of the exhibition consists of unique photographs and videos, fragments of the film “Premonition of Victory” by the Russian Academy of Arts with the memoirs of academics and front-line soldiers Boris Nemensky, Sergei and Alexei Tkachev, Grigory Yastrebenetsky and Grigory Ushaev.

The project includes the screening of a number of documentaries about front-line artists Boris Nemensky, Yevgeny Vuchetich, Nikolay Zhukov, prepared with the participation of academicians of the Russian Academy of Arts for the Zvezda TV channel, creative meetings with project participants, special excursions, and a round table entitled “Faith-Feat-Victory: Fine Arts and Preservation of Historical Memory,” which will be held with the participation of art historians and artists.

The text was prepared based on an article by the project’s scientific director, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Arts Tatyana Aleksandrovna Kochemasova.