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Russia in 1917-1919 – the Paintings of Ivan Vladimirov
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Ivan Alekseevich Vladimirov (1870-1947) is known as an artist of the realistic school of painting, a battle painter and the author of a series of documentary sketches from 1917-1918.
In 1917-1918, while working in the Petrograd militia (police), he made a series of unique documentary sketches of the events of 1917-1918. After 1917, he was a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. Since 1932, he was a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. He painted pictures on historical-revolutionary and battle themes. Source: humus.
1. 1917. “Removal of the Royal Coats of Arms (An Eagle Down!)” The signs on the building – Pharmacy. February.
2. 1917. “Burning of Imperial Eagles and Tsar’s Portraits.” March 5.
3. 1917. “Arresting Generals during the Revolution in February 1917.”
4. 1917. “Alarming News.”
5. 1917. “The Barricades of the Red Guards.”
6. 1917. “In Moments of Rest.”
7. 1917. “The Pogrom of the Winter Palace.” December.
8. 1918. “The Pogrom of a Wine Shop.” Petrograd. January.
9. 1918. “In the Theater. The Tsar’s Lodge.”
10. 1918. “Interrogation of a Suspicious Person.”
11. 1918. “Russian Clergy on Forced Labor” (cleaning stables).
12. 1918. “Preparing Firewood.”
13. 1918. “Escort of the Arrested.”
14. 1918. “On the Streets of Petrograd.”
15. 1918. “In the Last Journey.”
16. 1918. “Looting of Bank Safe Deposit Boxes.”
17. 1918. “Execution.”
18. 1918. “Petrograd. Evicted Family.”
19. 1919. “The Plight of the Former Nobles.”
20. 1919. “Evicted.”
21. 1919. “Waiting for Bread.”
22. 1919. “In the Basements of Cheka” (the first Soviet secret police agency).
23. 1919. Hungry times in Petrograd. A lady and her daughter collect potato peelings and herring heads from the garbage.
24. 1919. “The Former.” Hungry times in Petrograd. Residents return home with lunch from the public canteen.
25. 1919. Hungry days in Petrograd. Hungry people of all classes eat their portions at the doors of the “Communal Canteen”. The poster reads “Ball. Dances”.
26. 1919. “A Group of Bolsheviks on a Train.”
27. 1919. “Expropriation of Banknotes and Bonds in the Wavelberg Bank” (Nevsky Prospect, 25).
28. 1919. “From Their Homes.” Peasants return home after looting an estate somewhere near Pskov.
29. 1919. Exchange of belongings for food in the village near the railway station.
30. 1919. “Petrograd Without Water.” The water supply often did not work, and residents had to carry water from the Neva River.
31. 1919. “Looking for Food in a Gutter.”
32. 1919. “Questioning in the Committee of Poor.” The former landowner and priest were sentenced to death by the revolutionary tribunal in Valdai.
33. 1919. “Looting of the Manor House.”
34. 1919. “Looting of the Manor House.”
35. 1919. “At the Piano.”
Tags: Leningrad oblast · Saint Petersburg city · Soviet past
