Exhibition "On the Old Smolenskaya" of Honored Artists of Russia Evgeny Dolgachev (painting) and Vladimir Tarakanov (sculpture)

Dolgachev Eugene.

Born in 1953 in the city of Chelyabinsk. In 1973 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Art College, where he studied with teachers N. G. Chesnokov, N. N. Moos. He began his creative career in 1977. Works in the genres of thematic paintings, landscapes, portraits, still lifes.

The main themes of the works are the historical past of Russia and modernity.

Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1989. Member of international, all-Union, all-Russian, republican, zonal, regional, city and foreign exhibitions. Personal exhibitions - 1991, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2006 (Mozhaysk, Moscow).

The main works:

• · Diptych "My ancient city",
• · Cycle of paintings "City of Mozhai in the old Smolenskaya" consisting of 19 paintings,
• · “The Master from Mozhai” (2000-2003),
• · “From far to far…” polyptych (2005).

The works are in the Museum-Reserve "Borodino Field" and its branch Mozhaisk Museum of History and Local Lore, Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve (Moscow Region), in the art gallery of the Joint Memorial Museum named after Yu. A. Gagarin (Gagarin, Smolensk Region), the A. Pushkin Museum of History and Literature (Bolshie Vyazemy, Moscow Region), Borodino City Art Gallery, the Administration and Institutions of Mozhaisk, and also private collections in Russia and abroad.

He was awarded the medal "Moscow 850" (1997), a memorial sign "190 years of the Battle of Borodino" (2003), has diplomas and letters of thanks, letters of honor.

In 2007 he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

Vladimir Tarakanov.

Born in 1936.

He graduated from the Moscow Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov in 1964.

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Tarakanov has been engaged in sculpture for several decades. I am sure that the world rests on a woman. Some of his works are devoted to this. The woman here is a symbol of the continuation of life. But the image is not simple: a lady in art is as unpredictable as in reality