How artists portrayed the USSR's victory in World War II (PICS)

Boris Egorov

Oct 11 2024

Mikhail Khmelko. The Triumph of the Victorious Motherland (1949)

State Tretyakov Gallery

It was important for artists to show not only the triumph of the Red Army in the defeated capital of the Third Reich, but also the touching moment when soldiers returned home and the country returned to peaceful life.

Kukryniksy: Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov, Nikolai Sokolov. The End. The Last Days of Hitler's Stake in the Underground of the Reich Chancellery (1947-1948)

State Tretyakov Gallery

Vladimir Bogatkin. The Last Throw. Storming the Reichstag (1945)

Oryol Museum of Fine Arts

Pyotr Krivonogov. Capitulation of Nazi troops in Berlin (1946)

Central Armed Forces Museum

Pyotr Krivonogov. Victory (1948)

Vladimir Vdovin/Sputnik

Yuri Bondarenko. Victory (1985)

State Museum of the Defence of Moscow

Boris Okorokov. The First Day of Peace (1975)

Donetsk Republican Art Museum

Vladimir Shtranich. Victory Holiday on May 9, 1945 (1946)

Museum of Contemporary History of Russia

Mikhail Khmelko. The Triumph of the Victorious Motherland (1949)

State Tretyakov Gallery

Konstantin Antonov. Winners (1985)

Victory Museum

Vladimir Kostetsky. The Return (1947)

Sputnik

Sergei Tkachev, Alexei Tkachev. May of 1945 (1981)

Museum of the Tkachev Brothers

Pyotr Zhigimont. Soldier's Song (1954)

Museum of Military Uniforms

Andrei Gorsky. Missing in Action (1962)

Kyiv National Art Gallery Museum