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Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky

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Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky
Born
Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky

(1905-01-21)21 January 1905
Died7 August 1993(1993-08-07) (aged 88)

Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (21 January 1905 – 7 August 1993; Russian: Борис Алексеевич Смирнов-Русецкий) was a Soviet painter, member of Amaravella group. (In Sanskrit language Amaravella means immortality sprouts).

He was influenced by ideas of Russian cosmism and eastern mysticism.

Biography timeline

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  • 1905 - Born on January 21 in St.Petersburg
  • 1917 - Moved to Moscow with family
  • 1922 - Joined the Moscow Engineering Financial University
  • 1923 - The first exhibition in Moscow
  • 1941-1955 - Imprisoned in Saratov and then in Rybinsk, Akmolinsk and Makinsk
  • 1956 - Rehabilitated after 20th Congress of the CPSU. Returns to Moscow
  • 1967 - Personal exhibition in Moscow
  • 1969 - Second personal exhibition in Moscow
  • 1979-1993 - Exhibitions in Moscow, Kiev, Pskov, Mongolia, Finland, Berlin and other places
  • 1993 - Smirnov-Rusetsky died on August 7 in St.Petersburg

References

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  • Yury Linnik Crystal of Aquarius: Book about the Artist B.A.Smirnov-Rusetsky, Petrozavodsk, 231 pp., 1995 (in Russian). ISBN 5-87339-028-2
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