Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin (Russian: И. В. Сталин и К. Е. Ворошилов в Кремле) is a 1938 painting by Soviet painter Aleksandr Gerasimov. It depicts Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov walking near the Moscow Kremlin. Since 1941 it is in the exposition of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.[1]

Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin
Russian: И. В. Сталин и К. Е. Ворошилов в Кремле
Artist	Aleksandr Gerasimov
Year	1938 (1938)
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	296 cm × 386 cm (117 in × 152 in)
Location	Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

In the Stalinist era its replicas were very widespread, its copies being made for government institutions.[2] Jan Plamper, a German professor studying Russian history, calls it an important sample of socialist realism and cult of personality in the art.[3]

References

Literature

• Golomshtok, I. N. (1994). Totalitarian Art [Тоталитарное искусство]. ISBN 9780002721691.
• Plamper, Jan (2010). The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power [Алхимия власти. Культ Сталина в изобразительном искусстве]. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300169522.

На других языках

[es] Stalin y Voroshilov en el Kremlin

[fr] Staline et Vorochilov au Kremlin

[ru] И. В. Сталин и К. Е. Ворошилов в Кремле