#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade has opened at the Norilsk Museum on Leninsky prospect, 14.
One of the most valuable sources of everyday, ‘unofficial’ truth about the blockade were the diaries of Leningrad residents and their drawings. The exhibition The Leningrad Siege in Graphics presents 31 works from the art collection of the Norilsk Museum. These are lithographs, etchings and engravings that the Norilsk Art Gallery acquired over the years from the authors themselves or received as a gift. Vitaly Tambovtsev, Evgeny Konkov, Oleg Kukushkin, Adrian Kaplun, Yuri Neprintsev, Elizaveta Aizenstadt, Nikolay Lakov created their own graphic ‘siege book’. Each of these artists is somehow connected with Leningrad, was born there, lived or studied, and most of them went through the siege.
“Each exhibit of the exhibition tells about real episodes of those days, and the whole thing tells about how people lived under the continuous sounds of air raids in the city shackled by cold, hunger and horror. In the hero city, where the probability of dying was no less than at the front. In the martyr city, where many things cannot be assessed by the standards of peacetime, but where the resilience and sublimity of the human spirit prevailed”, the museum specialists said.
The exhibition will remain open until the end of March.
Follow us on Telegram, VKontakte.
Text: Angelika Stepanova, Photo: Norilsk Museum
