Exhibition "Road to Victory" opened in honor of the anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad

Khanty-Mansiysk. The house-museum of the artist Vladimir Igoshev celebrated seventy years from the day of victory in the battle of Stalingrad with the opening of the exhibition “Road to Victory”. The exposition of the exhibition is composed of the works of two artists, whose life was closely connected with the Great Patriotic War.

Sofya Sergeevna Uranova, who passed away in 1988, was a student of the famous Russian artist Mikhail Nesterov. In 1942, she went to the front, where she kept a diary between fights and drew. The 12th Guards Division, in which Sofia Uranova fought, participated in the liberation of the Belarusian and Ukrainian cities, the Baltic states and Poland.

The artist’s military road ended on the Elbe, where she met Victory Day. Sofya Sergeyevna’s military prowess was awarded the Order of the Red Star and many medals. Her main front-line trophy was sketches from life, which the artist wrote with a pen and pencil at the front. This was a large series of works, some of which are currently in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Igoshev, in his work often addressed the theme of the North. However, the Great Patriotic War was reflected in many works of the People’s Artist of the USSR, because Vladimir Igoshev took part in it from its first days. In addition to well-deserved awards - two Orders of the Patriotic War, medals "For Courage" and "For the Defense of Stalingrad", the artist brought a whole collection of front-line drawings.

They were made on any paper that came to the artist’s arm. Igoshev painted everything that surrounded him — guns, horses, but most often the faces of his front-line friends remained on the artist’s drawings. Based on these military sketches, many paintings were later written.

The house museum invites everyone to the exhibition.

Ludmila Trautmane