Mitrofan Rukavishnikov. Album-catalog

The album-catalog of Mitrofan Rukavishnikov is the first full-scale publication dedicated to the life and work of the outstanding representative of Russian artistic culture of the first half of the 20th century Mitrofan Sergeyevich Rukavishnikov. The descendant of the rich Nizhny Novgorod merchant family, he chose the path of art, becoming not only one of the leading sculptors of the period of the 1920s and early 1940s, but also the founder of one of the largest sculptural dynasties of modern Russia. His work was for a complex turning point, marked by a series of social cataclysms of Russian history. However, despite this, Mitrofan Rukavishnikov managed to take a worthy place among his contemporaries. Unfortunately, the name of this master was later forgotten. The uniqueness of the publication proposed to the reader lies in the fact that it first publishes materials that were the result of long -term research of the author, including