Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky

Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky was a Soviet painter, member of Amaravella group..
He was influenced by ideas of Russian cosmism and eastern mysticism.

Biography timeline

1905 - Born on 21 January 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 7 August in St.Petersburg