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Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov
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Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov was a Soviet and Russian painter, stage designer, and teacher. At the age of 12 the future artist was evacuated from besieged Leningrad along the "Road of Life" to the village of Greblo near Novgorod. After the siege was lifted he returned to his hometown. He received his art education at the Leningrad Secondary Art School and the I. E. Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1951-1957). After graduating from the institute he taught in Izhevsk, Ivanovo and Moscow.
Glazunov's first exhibition of works took place in 1957 in Moscow and brought him wide recognition. From 1978 he headed the portrait workshop at the Moscow Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. In 1981 he founded and headed the All-Union Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art in Moscow. In 1987, at Glazunov's initiative, the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture was established, of which he served as the lifelong rector. From 1996 to 1999 he oversaw the restoration of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Glazunov was also the author of the books "Road to You" and "Russia Crucified". The outstanding artist Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov passed away in 2017 at the age of 87.
Date of birth
10 June 1930
Date of death
09 July 2017
Occupation
Artist