Presented in the museum’s exposition is a miniature copy of the sculpture Passing Through the Wall, one of the most prestigious creative awards in the Urals. The Honored Artist of Russia Gennady Sidorovich Mosin Award was annually given in the field of fine arts, the figurine was awarded for 10 years, from 1991 to 2001. In different years it was received by such famous Ural artists as German Metelev, Misha Brusilovsky, Vitaly Volovich.
The original sculpture was created by Ernst Neizvestny as a reminder to the people governing the country of the difficult path from the Soviet past to modern reality. This was a kind of an appeal to Boris Yeltsin, to whom Ernst Iosifovich presented his creation in 1996, immediately after his victory in the presidential election in Russia. The present also had a second meaning: Boris Yeltsin was ill at that time and overcoming the wall could be interpreted as a victory over the disease. The sculpture adorned the collection of the first Russian president for some time, and then it was installed in the colonnade of A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, where it is kept to this day.
The original sculpture was created by Ernst Neizvestny as a reminder to the people governing the country of the difficult path from the Soviet past to modern reality. This was a kind of an appeal to Boris Yeltsin, to whom Ernst Iosifovich presented his creation in 1996, immediately after his victory in the presidential election in Russia. The present also had a second meaning: Boris Yeltsin was ill at that time and overcoming the wall could be interpreted as a victory over the disease. The sculpture adorned the collection of the first Russian president for some time, and then it was installed in the colonnade of A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, where it is kept to this day.
