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Military artist

Exhibition November 22, 2018 − February 3, 2019
The Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia hosts an exhibition "Military artist", to the 110th anniversary of Nikolai Zhukov.

Nikolay Nikolaevich Zhukov - Soviet artist, an outstanding master of propaganda poster and front-line graphics of the Great Patriotic War.

In the pre-war years, graphic artist Nikolai Zhukov worked on the design of magazines and advertising publications. He went through the war from the western border to Moscow and from Moscow to Budapest, first as a soldier in artillery, then at the editorial office of the army newspaper on the Kalininsky front and at the same time as the war correspondent of Pravda and, finally, as a military artist of the MB Studio. Grekova. During the war years, dozens of campaign posters and sketches of front-line life, portraits of soldiers and views of cities were created.

The exhibition presents posters, drawings and sketches of Nikolai Zhukov, made in different periods of his life. Also among the exhibits are fragments from his diaries and memories, rare photographs from the collection Museum-panorama "Battle of Borodino",House-Museum N.N. Zhukov in Yelets and the family archive of the descendants of N.N. Zhukov.

According to the materials of the official site of the Museum-panorama "Battle of Borodino".