Pyotr Vasiliev
Piotr Vasiliev was born into a working-class family in Saint Petersburg on 9th June, 1909. As a young man he enrolled at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he was taught by Vladimir Serov.
Vasiliev concentrated on historical paintings. After graduation, Piotr Vasiliev was sent to work for an art teacher in Chuvashia. He was a follower of Isaac Brodsky, one of the founders of the Socialist Realist art movement.
In June 1941, Piotr Vasiliev was drafted into the Red Army and took part in the Second World War and took part in the liberation of the Nazi occupation of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria.
Piotr Vasiliev died on 9th June, 1989.
Student Activities
Russian Revolution Simmulation
Bloody Sunday (Answer Commentary)
1905 Russian Revolution (Answer Commentary)
Russia and the First World War (Answer Commentary)
The Life and Death of Rasputin (Answer Commentary)
The Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II (Answer Commentary)
The Provisional Government (Answer Commentary)
The Kornilov Revolt (Answer Commentary)
The Bolsheviks (Answer Commentary)
The Bolshevik Revolution (Answer Commentary)
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