Word: tretyakov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Icons bought up at the turn of the century by N. P. Likhachev, whose collection is now in Leningrad's Russian Museum, and I. S. Ostroukhov, whose collection is now in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, laid the basis for scholarly study. Cleaning them for the first time in centuries was a revelation. Says Soviet Expert Victor Lasareff: "In place of dark, gloomy icons coated with a thick layer of varnish, [viewers] beheld glorious works of art, radiant with colors as bright as precious stones. They blazed with the flame of cinnabar; they caressed the eye with their subtle...
...least partial approval from the greatest Soviet realist of them all, Stalin's favorite portrait painter and president of the Soviet Academy of Art, Alexander M. Gerasimov, 74, whose heroic, mural-sized painting of Stalin and Marshal Voroshilov on the Kremlin ramparts recently disappeared from the Tretyakov State Art Museum. In a signed three-column article in Sovyetskaya Kultura, Gerasimov publicly confessed some errors of the bad old days: "The cult of the individual has done considerable harm . . . Recollecting certain of my works of the past years I must admit that even in them has been reflected the negative...
...Baku. Borodin might still be a Baku bureaucrat if, in 1945, the government had not summoned him to go overseas and study penicillin production. Shuttling back and forth between Russia, Britain and the U.S., Borodin forgot his resolution to stay clear of the Moscow meat grinder. His chief, Andrei Tretyakov, seemed to be on the skids.* Scientists in all fields were being purged. In London, Scientist Borodin was ordered to attend a lecture just to make sure that a fellow scientist read a paper about "rotten and decadent Western pseudoscience" exactly as it had been okayed. Suddenly Borodin balked...
...premature judgment. Though his Ministry of Medical Industries was abolished, Tretyakov made a comeback as Health Minister, and lived to sign Stalin's death certificate. In March 1954 Tretyakov finally lost his Cabinet post...