To the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1917: The exhibition of an artist-witness of a revolutionary era to be open in Moscow

July 13, 2017 in the Exhibition Hall of the Federal State Archives (Moscow) will be open the historical and documentary exhibition "1917. Drawings of the artist Y. K. Artsibushev". The exhibition is timed to the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1917 and includes 87 drawings from more than two hundred works of the artist, stored in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.

Yury Konstantinovich Artsybushev is a professional artist and journalist, author of a series of reportage portraits of political and public figures of Russia and the Soviet state during the period of the February and October revolutions.

During the work of the State Conference in August 1917 in Moscow, Y. K. Artsybushev made about 150 portraits of participants in political battles. Having moved to Petrograd, the artist attended the meetings of the Petrograd Soviet, the Constituent Assembly, where he made live sketches of Lenin, Trotsky, Krylenko, Zinoviev, Zheleznyak and their political opponents Chernov, Spiridonov, Tsereteli, Martov, Sukhanov, Maklakov, Milyukov.

The exposition is accompanied by documentary materials, photographs, leaflets with the appeals of various political parties, ballots for elections to the Constituent Assembly.

The exhibition will be open from July 14 to August 20, 2017.