What Putin gave the cosmonaut Tereshkova
ARTinvestment.RU   09 марта 2017

The first woman-космонавт (call sign "Seagull") on its 80-летний anniversary was received from the President two works of art: the painting "Seagulls over the river" and sculpture "the Seagull sits on the water"

the Ceremony congratulations of the Hero of Soviet Union Valentina Tereshkova in the Kremlin on March 6, has shown many times on TV. And in addition to proper warm words, attention is, of course, attracted gifts of the President — sculpture and painting. What is known about them?

The author of the sculpture "the Seagull sits on the water" — in his youth the pupil of the flying school, later student of Tomsk, a famous Soviet sculptor, people's artist of the USSR, academician, laureate of the state prize Julian Mitrofanovich Rukavishnikov (1922-2000). He, by the way, the author of the bust of Leonid Brezhnev at the Kremlin wall.

But the picture "Gulls over the river" was written by a young Kazan artist Vitaly Zaitsev, a previously little-known. The publication LiFE managed to find out details the preparation of the gift from Putin. The picture is painted to order in 2017 — is likely, especially for greetings Tereshkova, what gives the theme of the gulls. Previously the customer had agreed on a sketch and only then for 10 days the artist painted the finished product. Cost author said. But, as in the case of with the picture "In the shop" for Dmitry Medvedev, the work for Tereshkova, too, was hardly too expensive. The paintings of Vitaly Zaitsev size of 60 × 90 is usually in the range of 60 000 rubles.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: kremlin.ru, life.ru, vk.com, artinvestment.ru