Fyodor Bogorodsky

Fyodor Bogorodsky (2 June 1895 - 3 November 1959) was a well-known artist in the Soviet Union, and a proponent of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR).

In the 1920s Bogorodsky participated in the "Fire-color" Association, which also consisted of Arkhipov, Zhekulina, Dobuzhinsky, Petrov-Vodkin, Voloshin, and other major artists of the time.

His 1945 painting, Glory to Fallen Heroes,[1] won the Stalin Prize,[2][3] and appeared on a 1965 Soviet postage stamp.

References

  1. ↑ John Garrard, Alison Healicon, World War 2 and the Soviet People (1993), p. 109.
  2. ↑ Soviet Literature (1946), p. 158.
  3. ↑ David R. Marples, Russia in the Twentieth Century: The quest for stability (2014).


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