Exhibition 'Believing in Victory with All One's Heart'

About exhibition

The project was prepared by the art gallery as part of the program 'Museums of the Vologda Region: Our Victory. The Bond Between Generations.' The exhibition reveals the emotions of the first days of the war, shows the faces of combatants and home-front workers, tells of the feats of medical personnel who saved thousands of lives, and of the legendary Military Medical Train No. 312, which became a model mobile medical facility. A separate hall is dedicated to the Siege of Leningrad. The military theme resonates poignantly in works by front-line artists: in the monumental thematic canvases of E. E. Moiseenko and B. M. Nemensky, in plein-air portraits of soldiers by K. A. Vorobyev and in sketches by A. K. Borovskaya, in sculptures by celebrated monumentalists E. V. Vuchetich and V. E. Tsigal, in posters by A. F. Pakhomov and N. A. Tyrsa, and in etchings created in besieged Leningrad by A. I. Kharshakom and E. Ya. Khiger. The theme of the blockade of the city on the Neva is embodied by Vologda architect G. K. Parfenov, a child who survived that terrible time. Vologda front-line artists V. N. Korbakov and M. A. Larichev produced, in peacetime, moving portraits of veterans and genre paintings devoted to different periods of the Great Patriotic War. Well-known Vologda artists (D. T. Tutunjan, O. A. Borozdin, A. V. Panteleev, T. A. Chistyakova), who experienced the war as children, left their talented reflections on that heroic era and its memory. Postwar generations of Vologda artists (Y. A. Voronov, Y. S. Korobov, A. I. Savin, G. N. Osiev, O. V. Karpacheva, A. B. Shabaeva, Y. B. Shabaeva) continue to explore this theme important to every Russian. The exhibition also includes poignant paintings by Vologda artists Y. A. Voronov and A. R. Polyakov dedicated to the special military operation. The exhibition is accompanied by a video sequence created from paintings by Vologda artists and photographs from Donetsk, Luhansk, and Mariupol. The gallery is using new audio equipment for the first time—monophones. Visitors will hear musical installations and a narration describing the sections of the exhibition.