The bronze bust of famous Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was made no later than 1990 by Tambov sculptor Konstantin Malofeev. Today the bust is located in one of the rooms of the House-Museum of G.V. Chicherin, next to the monograph of the People’s Commissar Georgy Chicherin, which he dedicated to his favorite composer.

The Soviet diplomat knew the history of music well, especially the works of Mozart, and was a good pianist himself. Chicherin thoroughly researched the era in which he lived and worked, studied the vast literature about him. All this helped him become one of the experts in the work of the Austrian musician.

Georgy Chicherin confessed in a letter to his brother Nikolay:

Konstantin Malofeev is a sculptor and honored artist of the Russian Federation. He was born in the village of Akhmatovo, Mordovian ASSR. He graduated from the Penza Art School. In 1955, he came to Tambov and connected all his future life with that city.

Many famous monuments of the regional center of Tambov were created by Malofeev. A leading place in his work was occupied by a portrait and a one-figure composition depicting a person engaged in business.

Already the first works of Konstantin Malofeev – “Lunch”, “Milkmaid”, “Morning”, attracted the attention of specialists and won the sympathy of the audience. In the 1970s and 1980s, he created a series of portraits of famous people associated with the Tambov region: aircraft designer Sergey Yeger, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Lev Dyomin, poet Yevgeny Baratynsky, singer Irina Arkhipova, People’s Commissar Georgy Chicherin, scientist Alexander Chizhevsky.

The sculptor’s works were successfully exhibited at regional, republican and all-union art exhibitions. To date, in the cities and villages of the Tambov region, there are about thirty of his monuments dedicated to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War.

Konstantin Malofeev said about his profession: “We, sculptors, are more likely to deal with a chisel than a light pencil. The sculptor must have hard work, willpower, patience, without this creativity is unthinkable. Sometimes you miss some seemingly insignificant detail, and you have to redo an almost finished work. Therefore, everyone who dreams of connecting his life with art needs to cultivate in himself, first of all, love for work. After all, talent will fade away, if it is not improved.”