The State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSPHOTO presents the exhibition project “Memory of Victory.”
This unique exhibition, timed to coincide with Russia's celebration of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, features over 150 photographs taken by war photojournalists and amateur photographers between 1945 and the mid-1990s. Each individual photograph in the exhibition bears witness to the historical and cultural events of that time, which became the foundation for the ongoing process of shaping a unified historical memory for the peoples who won the Great Patriotic War.
The stories seen through the eyes of Ivan Shagin, Georgy Matveyev, Yakov Ryumkin, Natalia Bode, Georgy Lipskerov, Boris Pushkin, Georgy Petrusov, and others, who captured the final months of the war and the first weeks of peace, possess an exceptional value. For example, on July 2, 1945, war photojournalist Boris Fyodorovich Pushkin photographed the departure of the first echelon of demobilized soldiers from Berlin to Moscow as part of his series "The Last Miles of War." His photographs capture the full significance of this solemn event, the joy of the heroic soldiers, and their anticipation of reuniting with their homeland and families after a long separation.
An important milestone in the formation of international memory were the images captured by Soviet photographers during the second Victory Day Parade, which took place on September 7, 1945, in Berlin, in front of the Brandenburg Gate, to commemorate the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. This was a joint parade of allied forces, and its idea came from Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov.
In 1965, after a hiatus, the tradition of celebrating Victory Day and holding the Victory Parade in Moscow was revived. At the same time, gatherings of WWII veterans at the Bolshoi Theater became a tradition, and a number of films dedicated to veterans and the memories they cherish were made.
In 1985, the 40th anniversary of the Great Victory was widely celebrated in the USSR. This period is depicted in a variety of ways in the photographs presented at the exhibition. Reportage footage of the anniversary celebrations is juxtaposed with artistic interpretations of the theme of memory, and genre scenes – with psychological portraits.
Completing the exhibition set are a series of works by American military pilot and World War II veteran Ann Naugle, "Dance with Death: Soviet Women Pilots in World War II," and a series by Valery Shchelkoldin, "Veterans." Taken in the 1990s, these photographs reflect a genuine interest in Russian history and its heroes. The exhibition includes works by 75 authors, capturing more than 50 cities, towns, and villages whose histories are closely linked to the events of the Great Patriotic War: Moscow, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Ulyanovsk, Kursk, Kherson, Sevastopol, Bryansk, Belgorod, Zhdanov (Mariupol), Kaliningrad, and many other cities not only carefully preserve the memory of the war, but also, continuing the traditions, are symbols of military and labor heroism of the present day.
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