Exhibition of calligraphy to commemorate Great Patriotic War victory day

The World Calligraphy Museum and Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Centre will present a unique calligraphy exhibition to commemorate the Great Patriotic War victory day. The event partners with Moscow Department of Culture, Sokolniki Park and the all-Russian social cause Volunteers of the Victory.

The topic has united calligraphy artists from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Yaroslavl, Volgograd and many locations across Russia. Thanks to them, the event will put on display calligraphy masterpieces from the museum collection, as well as the works by renowned artists representing Russian leading calligraphy schools: N. Taranov, P. Chobitko and D. Petrovsky, and their students.

One of the most appealing sections of the exhibit is dedicated to the history of military battles and titled “Let the Thunder of Victory Sound!”. A series of works, produced by a team of trainers from calligraphy art centre From A to Ѵ (Saint Petersburg), led by the chairman of the National Union of Calligraphers of Russia, Petr Chobitko, will feature chapters of the Russian battle history, such as the Battle of Kulikovo, the Battle of Chudskoe Lake, the Battle of Poltava, the Capture of the Izmail Fortress, the Battle of Borodino and much more. Through composition and calligraphy its authors have conveyed the aura of the historical era in its entire grandeur and drama.

A section dedicated to the Great Patriotic War follows, demonstrating interpretations of poems and well known songs of the day, reflecting the very essence and horrors of the Great Patriotic War, and the joy of victory. The war that claimed the lives of millions, survives in the Russian memory, and these events will certainly continue to commove artists of various generations going forward. Both artists of the post-war generations, who heard of the war from their fathers’ stories, books and movies, and the youth, have shadowed forth their ideas of the war in calligraphy.

The idea of the Russian military valour represented at this unique exhibition of calligraphy, is designed to remind of the great Russian history and unite the people through pride for their homeland.

Photoreport of the Exhibition of calligraphy to commemorate Great Patriotic War victory day

Below, we invite you to have a look at the electronic exposition.

Alena Stas’kova
Children of the War (a poem by Boris Pasternak)

Paper, ink, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2015

Anna Skokova
War

Paper, ink, mixed method, tempera, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2018

Darina Biryulina
The Words of Love

Mixed method, ceramics gold, tempera, primed canvas
Russia, 2018

Dina Ruzha (Zhuravleva)
A Moment of Silence

Paper, acryl, ink, brush, broad pen
Russia, 2015

Dmitry Petrovsky
The Victory

Matte paper, white Winsor & Newton ink, broad pens. Own poem based original calligraphy on a designer’s graphic poster
Russia, 2018

Dmitry Petrovsky
Requiem

Paper, black ink, broad pens. Own poem based calligraphy on original coloured photography. Computer aided edit
Russia, 2018

Dmitry Petrovsky
Christ

Paper, black ink, broad pens. Own poem based calligraphy on original coloured photography. Computer aided edit
Russia, 2018

Ekaterina Kovaleva
Lest We Forget

Spray paint, tempera
Russia, 2018

Ekaterina Kovaleva
The Joy of Victory is Painfully Sad

Spray paint, tempera
Russia, 2018

Ekaterina Volkova
The Battle of Kulikovo

Paper, tempera, broad nib, broad brush
Russia, 2015-2016

Elena Bobkova
When it will be I do not know...

Paper, ink, broad pen, gilding
Russia, 2018

Elena Borisenko
I Сome Not From Сhildhood. Y. Drunina

Paper, ink, gouache, cola pen
Russia, 2018

Elizaveta Manerova
Requiem

Cotton, hot batik
Russia, 2017

Grigory Martynenko
For the Motherland!

Ink, glass pen, Parallel Pen, flat brush, drafting pen
Russia, 2018

Irina Lebedeva
A Dark Night. A poem by Vladimir Agatov

Vellum, cardboard, broad pen
Russia, 2015

Irina Molchanova
The Banner Of Victory, pangram

Color cardboard, ink, gouache, watercolours, pen, brush
Russia, 2018

Irina Molchanova
The Feat of N. Sirotinin, pangram

Colored cardboard, ink, gouache, watercolours, pen
Russia, 2018

Ivan Velansky
The Capture of Paris

Paper, acryl, broad nib, pointed nib
Russia, 2015-2016

Ivan Velansky
The Great Patriotic War Victory Day

Paper, acryl, broad nib, pastel crayon
Russia, 2015-2016

Ivan Velansky
The Battle of Cape Kaliakra

Dark blue paper, acryl, broad nib, pointed nib
Russia, 2015-2016

Mara Fribus
Morrigan the Raven

Cardboard, ink, gouache, flat pen, brush
Russia, 2018

Maria Skopyna
The Day the Siege of Leningrad Was Finally Lifted

Paper, gouache, nib, pointed brush
Russia, 2015-2016

Maria Skopyna
The Feat of Mercury the Brig

Paper, ink, gouache, nib, cardboard, automatic pen
Russia, 2015-2016

Maria Yashina
The Power of Truth

Paper, ink, broad pen
Russia, 2015

Marina Khankova
Whoever Will Come to Us With a Sword

Tinted paper, watercolours, ink
Russia, 2018

Marina Khankova
Four Years...

Tinted paper, watercolours, ink
Russia, 2018

Nadezhda Pavlova
Cranes

Carrara paper, Tuoniao black ink, Leonardt Hiro 41 pointed pen
Russia, 2018

Natalia Lotareva
"Alarm" (a poem by David Samoylov)

Paper, ink, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2015

Natalia Lotareva
A poem by front-line soldier D. Samoilov

Paper, ink, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2014

Nailya Lotfi (Valeeva)
In the Name of God the Most Gracious and Merciful

Geometric kufi, glass tiles mosaics
Russia, 2017

Nailya Lotfi (Valeeva)
Alif Lam MIM

Naskh style, mosaic made of natural stone
Russia, 2017

Nailya Lotfi (Valeeva)
Sabr (Patience)

Naskh, natural stone and glass tiles mosaics
Russia, 2017

Nikolay Taranov
Quote by Horatius

Paper, acryl, broad pen
Russia, 2015

Nikolay Taranov
Stalingrad, 1943. Vasily Grossman

Photography, acryl, broad pen
Russia, 2015

Olga Varlamova
Brusilov's Breakthrough

Paper, ink, gouache, broad nibs, pointed nib, pointed brush
Russia, 2015-2016

Olga Varlamova
The Battle of Navarino

Paper, ink, gouache, broad nibs, pointed nib, pointed brush
Russia, 2015-2016

Oksana Paponina
Cities of the Victory

Paper, watercolours, ink, flat brush, Roman Capital script
Russia, 2015

Oksana Paponina
We Have Defeated Death

Watman paper, watercolors, ink, flat pen, flat brush, Roman Capital script
Russia, 2018

Petr Chobitko
Borodino

Coloured paper, brush, nib, manual hot stamping
Russia, 2016

Petr Chobitko
Capture of the Turkish Fortress of Izmail “Suvorov…”

Paper, brush, nib, gouache, acryl
Russia, 2017

Petr Chobitko
The Battle of Poltava. “And the Battle Commenced”

Coloured paper, brush, nib, gouache, acryl
Russia, 2017

Svetlana Andreeva
Storks

Paper, ink, pen, acryl
Russia, 2018

Tanya Georgieva
"The Cranes Are Flying" ("Cranes" by Rasul Gamzatov)

Paper, ink, gouache, pointed pen, brush
Russia, 2015

Tatiana Titova
Cranes, a poem by Rasul Gamzatov

Pastel paper, white ink, metallic watercolours, copper
Russia, 2018

Tatiana Titova
Courage, poems by Anna Akhmatova

Copper pastel, mixed method
Russia, 2018

Tatiana Titova
He Never Returned From Battle, a poem by Vladimir Vysotsky

Pastel paper, Spenserian, black and gold ink
Russia, 2018

Vera Velansky (Chesnоkova)
Liberation of Moscow by Minin and Pozharsky

Paper, ink, watercolours, broad and pointed nib, pointed brush
Russia, 2015-2016

Vitaly Shapovalov
The Victory

Paper, watercolours, brush, gilding
Russia, 2015

Yelena Borisenko
The Memory (a fold-out book)

Paper, ink, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2015

Yelena Borisenko
At Mass Graves, triptych

Colored paper, ink, gouache, cola pen, poster pen
Russia, 2018

Yelizaveta Firtich
Memory

Photo collage, ink, pointed pen, brush
Russia, 2015

Vera Ilyina
The Ballad of T34

Paper, ink
Russia, 2015

Yulia Ivanova
In This Sign Thou Shalt Conquer!

Acryl, round canvas, contemporary сhurch Gothic calligraphy, mixed method
Russia, 2018

Yury Koverdyaev
The Statement By Sergei Shoigu

Paper, ink, pointed pen
Russia, 2017