Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin
| Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin | |
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| Russian: И. В. Сталин и К. Е. Ворошилов в Кремле | |
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| Artist | Aleksandr Gerasimor |
| Year | 1938 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 296 cm × 386 cm (117 in × 152 in) |
| Location | Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin (Russian: И. В. Сталин и К. Е. Ворошилов в Кремле) is a 1938 painting by soviet painter Aleksandr Gerasimor. It depicts Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov walking near Moscow Kremlin. Since 1941 it is in the exposition of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
In the Stalinist era its replicas were very widespread, its copies being made for government institutions.Jan Plamper, a German professor studying Russian history, calls it an important sample of socialist realism and cult of personality in the art.
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