The sculptor Vladimir Ilyich Fedorin is an Honored Artist of Russia. He graduated with honors from the Kalinin Moscow College of Industrial and Applied Arts. He studied drawing under the teacher Yury Georgievich Sedov. His graduation work was a marble bust of Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, which was later installed in the lobby of the college.

In 1963, Fedorin graduated with honors from the Surikov Moscow Art Institute, the workshop of Professor Matvey Genrikhovich Manizer, a prominent sculptor. Vladimir Fedorin wrote, “The search for the greatest expressiveness in the infinity of form-making is the right path for a sculptor.”

Fedorin took part in numerous regional, zonal and all-Russian exhibitions. He created many monuments and memorial plaques in different cities of the country. His works are invariably found in various museums, and the best of them are included in the collections of state museums.

Fedorin’s special talent for sculptural portraiture was revealed in his nuanced psychological interpretation of the model. The artist repeatedly turned to the image of Alexander Pushkin and embodied it in various techniques and genres of sculpture. His “Pushkin as a Child” (1984) stands out for its innovative approach. This bust is kept in Pushkin’s Museum in the Zakharovo estate.

A contemporary of the poet, the artist Vera Alexandrovna Nashchokina wrote,

The Zavolzhsk Art Gallery named after the People’s Artist Vladimir Telin houses another bust of Pushkin by Vladimir Fedorin. He depicted the poet as a child with a lively open face. The future poet’s lyceum years and the rapid unveiling of his talent still lie ahead. Only a highly skilled artist could guess and express in a child’s portrait the spirited gift of the poet, adding to Pushkin’s iconography a new interpretation of his features with boldness, confidence and without sentimentality.