Moika, 66

Artworks by Leningrad artist Sergey Pankratov (1905-1975)

21.09.2012 — 11.11.2012

Preview — 20.09.2012

In 1928, a young student of the Leningrad Academy of Arts Sergey Pankratov moved into the room of the communal apartment in the house number 66 on the Moika-River Embankment. Pankratov had actively participated in numerous exhibitions since the end of the 1920s, but tried to stay aside from the official "pre-scribed" subjects in his artworks. For this reason his name was not included into the list of those "elected" artists of the Soviet period. S. Pankratov painted for himself. He loved the view from his window: a house on the other side of the Blue Bridge - the widest in the city, and the Mariinsky Palace on the left. Leningrad, his beloved city, and its surroundings became the main hero of his paintings. Works by Sergey Pankratov are represented at the State Russian Museum, The Pushkin Apartment Museum in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg History Museum, Memorial Museum of the Leningrad Blockade, the Adam Mitzkievich Museum (Novogrudok, Belarus).

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