The exhibition of the Boris Kustodiev House Museum includes a commemorative medal “B. M. Kustodiev”, cast for the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth in 1978.

The medal was created by the famous Soviet and Russian medalist Boris Maksimovich Medvedev. The artist was born in Astrakhan in 1948. In 1967 he graduated from the Moscow secondary art school at the Moscow State Institute named after Vasily Surikov. In 1973 he graduated from the Moscow Higher School of Industrial and Applied Arts. His diploma project was a set of medals dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Polish astronomer Nicholaus Copernicus, which was presented by President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh to the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski.

Medvedev is [1] a participant and laureate of regional and all-Union exhibitions since 1974. The artist has been actively involved in teaching and holds the position of associate professor at Sochi State University for Tourism and Recreation. He works in painting, sculpture, jewelry, as well as monumental, decorative, and medallic arts. Boris Medvedev’s work is largely associated with the history and culture of Astrakhan. He designed the medals dedicated to outstanding Astrakhan residents: Trediakovsky, Vlasov, Kustodiev, and Khlebnikov. In 1977, he proposed and implemented a monumental and decorative solution for the fountain on Lenin Square in Astrakhan. Boris Maksimovich is also the creator of numerous memorial plaques on the facades of Astrakhan buildings — objects of cultural heritage — and a memorial stele to Maria Maksakova. Many works of the artist are housed in the Astrakhan Art Gallery, the Astrakhan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, in private collections in Russia and abroad. Since 1990 the artist has lived and worked in Sochi.

The collection of the Astrakhan Art Gallery includes other works by Boris Medvedev, such as the anniversary medal “P.A. Vlasov” and the plaque “P. A. Vlasov”, created for the 125th anniversary of the first teacher of Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev.