“The Establishment of Soviet Power in the Town of Vyatka” is the centerpiece of the Diorama Museum and Exhibition Center. The main element of the diorama is the painting with a total area of 280 square meters, a height of 8 meters, and a length of circumference of 35 meters. Below, in front of the painting are foreground figures that merge with the background.
The background was created by Arkady Intezarov and Nikolay Solomin — the masters of battle painting from the Grekov Studio of Military Artists. For this painting, the artists were awarded Grekov Gold Medals.
Standing at the viewing point of the diorama hall, the viewer gets a chance to witness the armed demonstration of December 1, 1917, when workers and soldiers took to the streets of Vyatka, marched along Spasskaya Street and Nikolayevskaya Street (now Lenin Street) in two columns and met at their intersection. At this moment, the revolution’s opponents started firing at the crowd from the roof and second floor of Ivan Kardakov’s store. The soldiers replied to the fire. The firefight was the most intense episode of the demonstration, and the artists decided to depict it in the diorama.
The artists managed to achieve a true-to-life depiction of the town. The types of people, their clothes, occupation, and emotions fully immerse the viewer in the events of that day. The artist painted the faces of over 2,000 demonstrators, with 150 of them depicted in detail. Many of them are actual Vyatka citizens, including prominent party leaders and members of the local intelligentsia. For example, one column of soldiers is headed by Naum Markovich Antselovich — a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee. The other column is led by Vyatka Bolsheviks — Ivan Ipatievich Derishev and Pyotr Kapustin — followed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Popov and Veniamin Ivanovich Laletin.
The area of Vyatka depicted in this painting is still recognizable. The former shop of the merchant Ivan Kardakov houses the Kardakovsky Shopping Center, while the building of the Assembly of the Nobility is used by the Theater on Spasskaya. The Intercession Church and the Resurrection Cathedral were destroyed in the 1930s, and the Tsentralnaya Hotel was built on their spot. The reconstruction of the Cathedral of Our Savior is nearing completion. The building of the former Yevropeyskaya Hotel houses shops and offices.
In 1981, the architect Anatoly Petrovich Pavlov, the painter Nikolay Nikolayevich Solomin, and the sculptor Viktor Alexandrovich Sonin were awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR for the architectural and artistic solution of the Kirov Diorama.
The background was created by Arkady Intezarov and Nikolay Solomin — the masters of battle painting from the Grekov Studio of Military Artists. For this painting, the artists were awarded Grekov Gold Medals.
Standing at the viewing point of the diorama hall, the viewer gets a chance to witness the armed demonstration of December 1, 1917, when workers and soldiers took to the streets of Vyatka, marched along Spasskaya Street and Nikolayevskaya Street (now Lenin Street) in two columns and met at their intersection. At this moment, the revolution’s opponents started firing at the crowd from the roof and second floor of Ivan Kardakov’s store. The soldiers replied to the fire. The firefight was the most intense episode of the demonstration, and the artists decided to depict it in the diorama.
The artists managed to achieve a true-to-life depiction of the town. The types of people, their clothes, occupation, and emotions fully immerse the viewer in the events of that day. The artist painted the faces of over 2,000 demonstrators, with 150 of them depicted in detail. Many of them are actual Vyatka citizens, including prominent party leaders and members of the local intelligentsia. For example, one column of soldiers is headed by Naum Markovich Antselovich — a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee. The other column is led by Vyatka Bolsheviks — Ivan Ipatievich Derishev and Pyotr Kapustin — followed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Popov and Veniamin Ivanovich Laletin.
The area of Vyatka depicted in this painting is still recognizable. The former shop of the merchant Ivan Kardakov houses the Kardakovsky Shopping Center, while the building of the Assembly of the Nobility is used by the Theater on Spasskaya. The Intercession Church and the Resurrection Cathedral were destroyed in the 1930s, and the Tsentralnaya Hotel was built on their spot. The reconstruction of the Cathedral of Our Savior is nearing completion. The building of the former Yevropeyskaya Hotel houses shops and offices.
In 1981, the architect Anatoly Petrovich Pavlov, the painter Nikolay Nikolayevich Solomin, and the sculptor Viktor Alexandrovich Sonin were awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR for the architectural and artistic solution of the Kirov Diorama.
