Boys Paint the War
from 2 October 2015 to 23 February 2016
Free admission
The exhibition is dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
It features paintings by children of preschool and primary school age, created during the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad.
Free admission
Peter and Paul Fortress, exhibition hall of Ioannovsky Ravelin
The State Museum of the History of St Petersburg stores about 700 paintings by children of preschool and primary school age, created during the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad. Most of them came to the museum in 1961 from the methodist of the Kuibyshev RONO Elizaveta Leonidovna Schukina, who during the siege collected children’s drawings, organized traveling exhibitions, and inspired educators to arrange albums and preserve children’s creative works for future generations.
The exhibition will feature about 300 paintings. They depict battles on the frontline, the release of captured cities, the breakout of the siege of Leningrad, the first fireworks in honor of the breakout of the siege and etc. Some of the drawings are accompanied with authors’ descriptions recorded by teachers.
Children's drawings of the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad are part of an impartial imaginative story created by children, heroic defenders of the city, many of whom became victims of the siege.
The State Museum of the History of St Petersburg stores about 700 paintings by children of preschool and primary school age, created during the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad. Most of them came to the museum in 1961 from the methodist of the Kuibyshev RONO Elizaveta Leonidovna Schukina, who during the siege collected children’s drawings, organized traveling exhibitions, and inspired educators to arrange albums and preserve children’s creative works for future generations.
The exhibition will feature about 300 paintings. They depict battles on the frontline, the release of captured cities, the breakout of the siege of Leningrad, the first fireworks in honor of the breakout of the siege and etc. Some of the drawings are accompanied with authors’ descriptions recorded by teachers.
Children's drawings of the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad are part of an impartial imaginative story created by children, heroic defenders of the city, many of whom became victims of the siege.
Free admission
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