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The Defense of Petrograd

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Oil on canvas by Alexander Deineka (1928). Frieze-like two-level composition: workers marching to front (below bridge) and wounded returning (above). Spare, geometric, avant-garde in form — pre-dating the Socialist Realism mandate. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Scholarly Significance

Anchor Soviet pre-Socialist-Realism with Deineka's Defense of Petrograd.

Notes

·Subject: defense of Petrograd against White Army forces during the Russian Civil War (1919).
·Spare, monochrome palette, geometric arrangement — influenced by Constructivist graphic design despite being oil paint.
·First exhibited at the 1928 exhibition 'Ten Years of the Red Army'.
·Versions note: Deineka made a second version in 1964; the Tretyakov holds the 1964 version; 1928 original at Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War.