Exhibition of the B. I. Prorokov House-Museum

About exhibition

The house-museum of People's Artist of the USSR, a recipient of the Lenin and State Prizes and a native of the city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Boris Ivanovich Prorokov (1911–1972), is located in the historic center of the city in a wooden one-story house where his family lived from 1927 to 1949. The museum's permanent memorial-art exhibition presents original works by Prorokov from the late 1920s to the early 1970s: drawings, posters, paintings, sculpture, sketches, studies, the artist's repetitions and variants of well-known graphic series, photographs, documents, awards and the artist's personal belongings. During the Great Patriotic War (World War II) Boris Ivanovich, as a wartime artist, served on almost all fronts, and a significant part of the exhibition is devoted to the military theme, which became emblematic for the artist. "This Must Not Be Repeated!"—the title of one of the series—expresses the main ideas of Prorokov's work: the glorification of the heroic deeds of the Soviet people in the fight against fascism and the struggle to preserve peace.