Dmitry Nalbandyan Museum-Workshop

About museum

Dmitry Nalbandyan Museum-Workshop is a unique place on the city's cultural map, whose history began back in 1956. Located on the site of the artist's studio, the museum today represents the space of life and creativity of the great Soviet artist. Dmitry Nalbandyan was born in 1906 in Tiflis. After graduating from the Academy of Arts of Georgia, in 1931 he moved to Moscow, where he worked as an animator, caricaturist and poster artist. In 1934 Nalbandyan met Sergo Ordzhonikidze in the Kremlin, a friend of his father. He introduced the artist to Sergey Kirov and brought him into the circle of the party elite. After that Nalbandyan painted his first large canvas "Speech of S. M. Kirov at the 17th Congress of the VKP(b)", which was exhibited at the State Museum of Fine Arts, published in newspapers and reproduced in prints. Nalbandyan became a member of the Moscow Union of Soviet Artists and the Academy of Arts, and received the Stalin and Lenin prizes for his portraits.