For the Soviet government / Za radiаnsku vladu
ID:
5245
Updated:
07.04.2025
Name:
For the Soviet government / Za radiаnsku vladu
Author:
Mykola Rodin
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1960
Type:
Graphics
Technique of implementation:
Graphics, plot picture
Materials:
Paper, etching
Dimensions:
64,3x26 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Г – 450, КП – 1448
Location of special signs:
On the back on paper
Description:
In the left part of the composition, there is a group of soldiers half-naked before being shot with their hands tied, standing on the edge of a cliff. The figures are in dynamic poses. The following stand out from the group: a man kneeling and falling (profile view on the left); a man with his legs wide apart (back view, ¾ turn on the right), two falling people. In the right part of the composition, on a smaller scale, there are punishers with weapons. In front of them is a twisted barbed wire. The composition is frontal with a low horizon line. A herd of horses is silhouetted on the horizon line.
Under the print with a graphite pencil: "For Soviet Power", signed by the author, dated: 1960 г.
On the reverse in the lower right corner in graphite pencil: artist. Rodin Nikolai Alekseevich. 1919. etching 1960. 26,4х63,8. For Soviet power. Reg. 25163, inv. 11725.
State of preservation: General yellowing of the sheet. Spots of iron bacteria. Top left - mechanical damage. Traces of mounting, rubbing in the margins.
Under the print with a graphite pencil: "For Soviet Power", signed by the author, dated: 1960 г.
On the reverse in the lower right corner in graphite pencil: artist. Rodin Nikolai Alekseevich. 1919. etching 1960. 26,4х63,8. For Soviet power. Reg. 25163, inv. 11725.
State of preservation: General yellowing of the sheet. Spots of iron bacteria. Top left - mechanical damage. Traces of mounting, rubbing in the margins.
Circumstances:
It was taken out of the Kherson Art Museum by representatives of the russian federation
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Details of theft
Year of the incident:
2022
Place of the incident:
The Oleksii Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum
Coordinates (Lat, Lon):
46.62979067231111, 32.609546919505945
Place of last known stay:
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Description of the incident location
It was opened on May 27, 1978, in the former City Hall building, an architectural monument of the early 20th century. As of 2022 (before the robbery), the museum's collection included more than 13 thousand works of art and was one of the most interesting museum collections in Ukraine. It includes works of Ukrainian and foreign painting, graphics, sculpture, and decorative and applied arts. From October 31 to November 4, 2022, the Kherson Art Museum was looted by the russian occupiers, and more than 10,000 of its most valuable exhibits were stolen. The cargo was sent to Crimea, and the works (all or part of them) ended up in the Simferopol Central Museum of Tavrida. It is unknown whether everything is still there.
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