Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (21 January 1905 – 7 August 1993; russian: Борис Алексеевич Смирнов-Русецкий) was a Soviet painter, member of

Amaravella Amaravella (russian: Амаравелла; from Sanskrit ''amaravella''), or the Cosmists (Космисты), was a group of young Soviet artists active between 1923 and 1928. Its members included Aleksandr Sardan (Barabanov) (1901–1974), Boris Sm ...

group. (In Sanskrit language Amaravella means ''immortality sprouts''). He was influenced by ideas of Russian cosmism and eastern mysticism.

Biography timeline

*1905 - Born on January 21 in

St.Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

*1917 - Moved to Moscow with family *1922 - Joined the Moscow Engineering Financial University *1923 - The first exhibition in Moscow *1941-1955 - Imprisoned in

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and then in Rybinsk, Akmolinsk and

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*1956 - Rehabilitated after

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. Returns to Moscow *1967 - Personal exhibition in Moscow *1969 - Second personal exhibition in Moscow *1979-1993 - Exhibitions in Moscow,

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, Mongolia, Finland, Berlin and other places *1993 - Smirnov-Rusetsky died on August 7 in St.Petersburg

Bibliography

* Yury Linnik ''Crystal of Aquarius: Book about the Artist B.A.Smirnov-Rusetsky'', Petrozavodsk, 231 pp., 1995 (in Russian).

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smirnov-Rusetsky, Boris Soviet painters 1905 births 1993 deaths