Evgeny Ryabinsky painted this painting by order of the House-Museum of Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin for the memorial corner ‘G.V. Chicherin’s study in the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs’.
The Soviet diplomat is standing near the piano with open music sheets, the keyboard is open. This is how the author reflected Chicherin’s love for music, which he carried through his whole life and to which he devoted all his free time from work. In the background of the painting there is a desk with a telephone and papers, as well as a bookcase. This furniture is memorial, it is exhibited in the Museum’s Crimson Hall.
Evgeny Ryabinsky is a People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, a laureate of the Ilya Repin State Prize, a corresponding member of the Academy of Arts and a honorary citizen of the city of Tambov.
He was born in the old Morshansk village of Algasovo, Tambov region, in a family of teachers. Since childhood, he joined the world of fine arts through the magazine “Young Artist”, fell in love with drawing and dreamed of the fate of a professional painter.
During the Great Patriotic War Ryabinsky served on the Leningrad front. In 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, for his participation in the war.
After demobilization, Ryabinsky successfully passed entrance exams at Moscow Central School of Industrial Art, from which, a few years later, he transferred to the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. After graduation he settled in Tambov.
Evgeny Ryabinsky glorified his small homeland with his paintings, they regularly participated in exhibitions and entered art catalogs and albums of the second half of the 20th century. Currently, the artist’s works are kept in public and private collections in Russia and abroad. Three of them are in the main fund of the State Tretyakov Gallery.
The surname of the painter implies a whole era in the art of the Tambov region. He was one of the galaxy of those graduates of art universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg who were not afraid to return to the provinces after institute graduation and set the tone for the entire artistic life.
That era in the visual arts is usually called ‘Soviet art’. It belongs to that period in the history of culture when people were involved in creativity with unprecedented enthusiasm and even obsession.
In total, Evgeny Ryabinsky wrote about 1,000 graphic and pictorial works. After the artist’s death, his family donated 57 works to the Tambov Regional Art Gallery, and 16 to the Regional Museum of Local Lore.
The Soviet diplomat is standing near the piano with open music sheets, the keyboard is open. This is how the author reflected Chicherin’s love for music, which he carried through his whole life and to which he devoted all his free time from work. In the background of the painting there is a desk with a telephone and papers, as well as a bookcase. This furniture is memorial, it is exhibited in the Museum’s Crimson Hall.
Evgeny Ryabinsky is a People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, a laureate of the Ilya Repin State Prize, a corresponding member of the Academy of Arts and a honorary citizen of the city of Tambov.
He was born in the old Morshansk village of Algasovo, Tambov region, in a family of teachers. Since childhood, he joined the world of fine arts through the magazine “Young Artist”, fell in love with drawing and dreamed of the fate of a professional painter.
During the Great Patriotic War Ryabinsky served on the Leningrad front. In 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, for his participation in the war.
After demobilization, Ryabinsky successfully passed entrance exams at Moscow Central School of Industrial Art, from which, a few years later, he transferred to the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. After graduation he settled in Tambov.
Evgeny Ryabinsky glorified his small homeland with his paintings, they regularly participated in exhibitions and entered art catalogs and albums of the second half of the 20th century. Currently, the artist’s works are kept in public and private collections in Russia and abroad. Three of them are in the main fund of the State Tretyakov Gallery.
The surname of the painter implies a whole era in the art of the Tambov region. He was one of the galaxy of those graduates of art universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg who were not afraid to return to the provinces after institute graduation and set the tone for the entire artistic life.
That era in the visual arts is usually called ‘Soviet art’. It belongs to that period in the history of culture when people were involved in creativity with unprecedented enthusiasm and even obsession.
In total, Evgeny Ryabinsky wrote about 1,000 graphic and pictorial works. After the artist’s death, his family donated 57 works to the Tambov Regional Art Gallery, and 16 to the Regional Museum of Local Lore.
