Earth from the place where the fighters of the Resistance movement were executed (in a vase with a lid)

A gift from the delegation of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Society that visited Stalingrad on 19.06.1953. The dessert plate is made with the use of cloisonné technique and is decorated with geometric patterns both in its centre and on its rim. On the base of the plate there are images of semiabstract birds and geometric elements.

A gift from the Brazilian delegation to the participants of the Congress of Peoples for Peace in Vienna.

The painter depicted the Square of the Fallen Fighters in the last days of the Stalingrad Battle: a Red Army soldier is hoisting a flag on the Red Army House, a column of war prisoners is moving across the square, in the background on the left the ruins of Central Department Store and other buildings can be seen. The painter was inspired by a photo taken by Grigory Kapustyansky, special correspondent of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. This photo known under the caption “The Victory Flag in Stalingrad on February 3, 1943” was featured in the world’s leading mass media. The picture is fixed on a cardboard passe-partout; the inscription on the lower edge made in the Russian language reads: “Invincible Stalingrad – cemetery of the German fascism”. The inscription to the right reads: “Ridd S”, the inscription below: “Havana / 1945”.