Panel “31 août 1942”

A gift from the delegation of Polish miners who visited Stalingrad in March 1946. Silesia

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”.

A gift from the France-USSR Association of the Vienne Department presented to the Soviet Delegation during the month of Franco-Soviet Friendship, organised by the France-USSR Association in November – December of 1950. France, Vienne Department, the city of Châtellerault