Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Rooms 80-81: Early Soviet Art
Most paintings from the Stalin era may have been censored beyond meaning, but
there are some interesting portraits of daily life here, such as Alexander
Samokhvalov's
Militarised Komsomol
(1932-33) and various pictures from WWII
showing heroic resistance and national unity. Room 81 ends with Vyacheslav Pak-
ulin's beautiful
Nevsky on 9th July 1945,
depicting troops returning from the war.
Rooms 82-109: Late Soviet Art & Temporary Exhibits
With Stalin gone and the 'thaw' under way in the 1950s, Soviet art recovered some-
what from the severity of socialist realism. Idealised images of rural life and peasants
still feature very strongly, however. These rooms are often used for special exhibi-
tions, while Rooms 87 to 94 were being refurbished at the time of writing.
