Exhibition

Exhibition “Vera Milyutina. Alexander Rozanov. The Union Born in the Blockade "

Place

Museum of The Defense and The Siege of Leningrad

St. Petersburg, Solyanoy pereulok, 9

Category

Exhibition

Date

11 november 2020, 10:00 — 11 february 2021, 17:00

Price

100 rub — 300 rub

Events / Exhibition

On November 11, the State Memorial Museum of Defense and Siege of Leningrad will open the exhibition “Vera Milyutina. Alexander Rozanov. The Union Born in the Blockade ", timed to coincide with the 110th anniversary of the birth of the composer and musicologist Alexander Semyonovich Rozanov. The joint project of the State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad, the State Hermitage and the Pavlovsk State Museum-Reserve is dedicated to a married couple - an artist and a musician - who have made a significant contribution to Russian culture.

For the first time, visitors will see the most complete collection of the blockade graphics by Vera Vladimirovna Milyutina. The exhibition will feature 17 works by the artist from the cycle "The Hermitage in the Days of the Siege", including three photographs of drawings that were later lost, six sketches of costumes for productions of the ensemble of A.E. Obranta of the war years from the collection of the Museum of Defense and Siege of Leningrad, as well as the graphic series "Architectural structures in Pavlovsky Park" (1956-1958), books by A.S. Rozanov on the history of music, the publication of his musical compositions, an arrangement of the Leningrad Poem for two pianos, written by him in 1943.

At the exhibition in the Museum of Defense and Siege of Leningrad, for the first time in a single exhibition space, the creative and human fates of V.V. Milyutina and A.S. Rozanov. Their family union was formed in 1943 in besieged Leningrad.

Vera Vladimirovna Milyutina (1903-1987) graduated from the theater department of the Higher Institute of Art and Technology (formerly the Academy of Arts). She worked at the Maly Opera House (now Mikhailovsky), where she was engaged in the restoration of theatrical sketches. She met the war as the main artist of Lengostrada. She remained in Leningrad all the years of the siege. She worked in ISORAM, in Lengoroformlenie, "dressed" the legendary ensemble of Obrant, painted portraits of women-defenders. She created a series of drawings "The Hermitage in the days of the siege", which became an event in the history of siege graphics. V.V. Milyutina is known primarily as a blockade artist, also the author of numerous graphic series of landscape and interior plans.

Alexander Semyonovich Rozanov (1910–1994) graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, performed as a concert pianist. In 1932 he was repressed. In 1935 he was released and sent to a settlement in Kirovsk, where he worked as a school music teacher. With the beginning of the war he got to the front. Then he became concertmaster of the ensemble A.E. Obranta, composed orchestral music, took part in performances in front of military units and in besieged Leningrad. In January - February 1943, Rozanov wrote The Leningrad Poem, conceived as an orchestral work, but which has survived to this day in a piano version. In the postwar years he worked a lot as a composer, created orchestral and instrumental works, created music for performances of the Leningrad Puppet Theater. He wrote books about Pauline Viardot, "Musical Pavlovsk" about the history of musical Pavlovsk concerts and "North Star" about M.I. Glinka. A.S. Rozanov, we owe an acquaintance with the work of the little-known Russian composer of the 18th century N.P. Yakhontov and unknown scores by D.S. Bortnyansky.

The names of A.S. Rozanov and V.V. Milyutina are inscribed on the Memory Sheets of the Golden Book of St. Petersburg.