The Tula operation was part of the battle of Moscow in 1941–1942. To prevent the encirclement and capture of the capital by German troops, the Tula city defense Committee formed a working regiment of fifteen hundred people.
Painting of Ivan Kolbeev Tula Won’t Surrender depicts three militia regiments in the trenches during a night battle. In the work of the author, who survived the Great Patriotic war, the theme of military history was repeatedly raised. The memory of the defense of Tula in 1941 is especially close to him.
At the background of the picture, echoes of the battle with the enemy are visible: a flaming German tank, fire. The attention of the viewer is riveted by the faces of the fighters. Their fate is known and tragic. For three people, they only have two Mosin-Nagant three-line rifles and only one grenade. But their hands are gripping on to their weapons tightly, despair and stern courage have taken possession of the defenders of the city. ‘Tula will not surrender! ’ — can be read in their eyes. Due to the fact that it was defended, the fascists could not close the ring around Moscow.
The soldiers of the Tula workers' regiment represent our entire Homeland. Town after town, village after village, rose to fight against the invaders during the wat. Someone, like the soldiers in the picture, fought at the front, partisans staged sabotage in the rear of the Nazis, women and children worked at factories and on fields. In his work, Ivan Sergeevich Kolbeev glorified their heroic deeds.
He was born in 1931 in the Bryansk region. As a child, he became interested in painting. When the war began, the boy was ten years old. He survived its hardships and did not give up the dream of becoming an artist. Having mastered the profession of a miner, at the age of almost thirty years, in 1960, Ivan Kolbeev entered the Konstantin Savitsky Penza art school. After his graduation, he became a regular participant in city, regional, Republican and all-Union exhibitions.
Ivan Sergeevich is a versatile artist, he mastered different genres: landscape, still-life, portrait. Kolbeev heritage includes paintings and graphics, posters, design sketches. The master also worked in the field of monumental art, creating large decorative panels and mosaics. He painted and decorated the buildings of two schools, a winery and a police station of the city of Uzlovaya. All the creative work of Ivan Sergeevich is saturated by love for Russia and attention to its heritage.
Painting of Ivan Kolbeev Tula Won’t Surrender depicts three militia regiments in the trenches during a night battle. In the work of the author, who survived the Great Patriotic war, the theme of military history was repeatedly raised. The memory of the defense of Tula in 1941 is especially close to him.
At the background of the picture, echoes of the battle with the enemy are visible: a flaming German tank, fire. The attention of the viewer is riveted by the faces of the fighters. Their fate is known and tragic. For three people, they only have two Mosin-Nagant three-line rifles and only one grenade. But their hands are gripping on to their weapons tightly, despair and stern courage have taken possession of the defenders of the city. ‘Tula will not surrender! ’ — can be read in their eyes. Due to the fact that it was defended, the fascists could not close the ring around Moscow.
The soldiers of the Tula workers' regiment represent our entire Homeland. Town after town, village after village, rose to fight against the invaders during the wat. Someone, like the soldiers in the picture, fought at the front, partisans staged sabotage in the rear of the Nazis, women and children worked at factories and on fields. In his work, Ivan Sergeevich Kolbeev glorified their heroic deeds.
He was born in 1931 in the Bryansk region. As a child, he became interested in painting. When the war began, the boy was ten years old. He survived its hardships and did not give up the dream of becoming an artist. Having mastered the profession of a miner, at the age of almost thirty years, in 1960, Ivan Kolbeev entered the Konstantin Savitsky Penza art school. After his graduation, he became a regular participant in city, regional, Republican and all-Union exhibitions.
Ivan Sergeevich is a versatile artist, he mastered different genres: landscape, still-life, portrait. Kolbeev heritage includes paintings and graphics, posters, design sketches. The master also worked in the field of monumental art, creating large decorative panels and mosaics. He painted and decorated the buildings of two schools, a winery and a police station of the city of Uzlovaya. All the creative work of Ivan Sergeevich is saturated by love for Russia and attention to its heritage.
