Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky
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Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (January 21, 1905 – August 7, 1993; Russian: Борис Алексеевич Смирнов-Русецкий) was a Russian painter, member of Amaravella group. (In Sanskrit language Amaravella means immortality sprouts).
He was influenced by ideas of Russian cosmism and eastern mysticism.
[edit] Biography timeline
- 1905 - Born on January 21 in St.Petersburg
- 1917 - Moved to Moscow with family
- 1922 - Joined the Moscow Engineering Financial University
- 1923 - The first exhibition in Moscow
- 1941-1955 - Imprisoned in Saratov and then in Rybinsk, Akmolinsk and Makinsk
- 1956 - Rehabilitated after 20th Congress of the CPSU. Returns to Moscow
- 1967 - Personal exhibition in Moscow
- 1969 - Second personal exhibition in Moscow
- 1979-1993 - Exhibitions in Moscow, Kiev, Pskov, Mongolia, Finland, Berlin and other places
- 1993 - Smirnov-Rusetsky died on August 7 in St.Petersburg
[edit] Bibliography
- Yury Linnik Crystal of Aquarius: Book about the Artist B.A.Smirnov-Rusetsky, Petrozavodsk, 231 pp. ,1995 (in Russian). ISBN 5-87339-028-2
