VITEBSK, 30 December (BelTA) – The Frontline Portrait. The Fate of the Soldier exhibition of the Moscow Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora will visit Belarus, BelTA learned from Director of the History and Culture Museum of Novopolotsk Vladimir Belyaev.
The exhibition will be presented in the Novopolotsk museum on 24 January. The display will showcase pencil portraits of frontline soldiers created by military artists of the Grekov movement during the war. Some of them were exhibited in Moscow. The exhibition will feature ten works depicting Belarusians. These works were kept in the funds of the Moscow Museum and have never been presented to the public before. “This is a great honor and a very significant event for us. All these works will be exhibited in Belarus for the first time,” said Vladimir Beliyaev.
The exposition will be supplemented by the archive data about the Belarusians depicted in the pictures, their operational record, awards and post-war life collected by Russian and Novopolotsk specialists. It is known that among them were reconnaissance operatives, military doctors, and demolition experts. They include native of Disna, Corporal Maksim Kunkis. After the war, he lived in Novopolotsk. At the opening of the exhibition his son will be given a copy of his father's frontline portrait. The contrasting part of the exhibition will be the landscapes of peaceful Belarus of 1960-1980. “This is done to emphasize what our people fought for during the war,” said the director of the museum.
The project is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory in World War Two and will stay open through mid-February. In April, it will be complemented by the Satire Windows exhibition and will be available to viewers once again.
These patriotic projects will be run thanks to a cooperation agreement that the Novopolotsk History and Culture Museum and the Moscow Victory Museum signed in late November 2019.
