Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky

Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (January 21 1905 – August 7 1993; _ru. Борис Алексеевич Смирнов-Русецкий) was a Russian painter, member of Amaravella group. (In Sanskrit language Amaravella means "immortality sprouts").

He was influenced by ideas of Russian cosmism and eastern mysticism.

Biography timeline

*1905 - Born on January 21 in St.Petersburg
*1917 - Moved to Moscow with family
*1922 - Joined the Moscow Engineering Financial University
*1923 - The first exhibition in Moscow
*1941-1955 - Imprisoned in Saratov and then in Rybinsk, Akmolinsk and Makinsk
*1956 - Rehabilitated after 20th Congress of the CPSU. Returns to Moscow
*1967 - Personal exhibition in Moscow
*1969 - Second personal exhibition in Moscow
*1979-1993 - Exhibitions in Moscow, Kiev, Pskov, Mongolia, Finland, Berlin and other places
*1993 - Smirnov-Rusetsky died on August 7 in St.Petersburg

Bibliography

* Yury Linnik "Crystal of Aquarius: Book about the Artist B.A.Smirnov-Rusetsky", Petrozavodsk, 231 pp. ,1995 (in Russian). ISBN 5-87339-028-2

External links

* [http://amara.paragon.ru/english/sr/sr_eng.html Photo of Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky]
* [http://amara.paragon.ru/english/photo1.htm On-line art gallery]