The M.B. Grekov Studio, which recently celebrated its 90th anniversary, is a unique creative team where representatives of a rare profession work, the military artists. It is here that the history of Russian battle art is made. Significant events of our country, military battles, portraits of great commanders, the daily life of the Russian army – all this is embodied in numerous works of art, the authors of which are masters of different generations and major Russian artists, including academicians of the Russian Academy of Arts, whose works have become classics of Russian art.
During the Great Patriotic War and in the post-war years, the Grekov artists made a great contribution to the perpetuation of military exploits. Many of the studio’s artists were participants in the Great Patriotic War and reached Berlin. Throughout the war artists of the M.B. Grekov Studio served in the active army and continued to record everything they saw and experienced, which enabled them to reliably and convincingly convey the living breath of these terrible and hard times.
Before us is an impartial reflection of military reality, rendered by the brush of battle painters. The war became a school of professional skill for them, connecting artists with the army, bringing them closer to the Russian soldier at a moment of the highest upsurge of his spiritual and physical strength. Sketches of combat episodes and frontline landscapes, every portrait made from life, each sketch – this entire pictorial chronicle became an invaluable basis for the works created.
Exhibition organisers:
Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Department of Culture of the City of Moscow
Studio of Military Artists named after M.B. Grekov
Zaryadye Park
Studio of Military Artists named after M. B. Grekov
Director: Tatyana Samarskaya
Head of the Project and Exhibition Department: Andrey Stepansky
Project and Exhibition Department: Alexander Koshelev, Andrey Vysokolov, Dmitry Grekulov, Vasilisa Zaprudnova, Elena Zbrodina, Evgeny Kudinov, Olga Movchan, Andrey Petrov, Nikolai Seregin, Eldar Seregin
Department of Funds: Irina Lebedeva, Tatyana Mitina
Restoration: Ivan Krivshinko
Contract Service: Tatyana Shishkova, Mikhail Istomin
Zaryadye Park
Director: Ivan Demidov
Head of Department of Scientific and Educational Projects: Elena Voitsekhovskaya
Head of Exhibition Projects Department: Dmitry Shishkin
Exhibition Projects Department: Alexander Danilov, Irina Osipova, Anna Malik-Korolenkova, Anastasia Khovenko, Elena Golubeva, Anna Shneider, Ilya Dvinskikh, Natalya Evseeva, Marfa Makeeva, Victoria Chernega, Liliana Gabelaya, Milena Kharitonova
Proof reader: Natalia Matviechko
Translation into English: Patricia Donegan
Technical coordination of the project: Accent creative communications agency – Ksenia Faresova, Olga Stepanova, Elena Shevchenko, Olga Martynova, Maria Guseva, Vasily Faresov, Ksenia Panova, Elizaveta Navtsenya, Alena Lebedeva, Nikita Zenin, Maria Ivanova, Anna Minkova, Tamara Skvortsova
Architectural bureau ARKh-KUPE: Ilya Kurenkov, Irina Peshkova
Graphic design: Dmitry Zimin
Exposition construction: OOO NV EXPO – Pavel Strukov, Nikolay Ushakov, Oleg Ivanov, Yuri Shatalin, Dmitry Kovrizhnykh
Exposition installation: IP Demyanov
Lighting design: IP Abramenko
Logistics: ANT Logistic
Insurance of exhibits: Ingosstrakh