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Aleshin Sergey Semenovich

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He studied at the Stroganov Art School. Aleshin’s teachers were renowned masters - N. Andreev from Moscow and A. Burdel from Paris.

Before the Octore Revolution, Aleshin became the author of Prince Vasili’s monument in Ples, took part in the decoration of the Bryansk railway station (now Kievsky railway station) in Moscow (1913-1915).

He took part in the implementation of the Lenin plan of "monumental propaganda": he created a temporary monument to Stepan Khalturin and a model of the monument to K. Marx for Moscow, on the laying of which Lenin attended. In 1927, he created a portrait of M.V. Frunze (1927). He worked as a monumental sculptor. His main works in this area are reliefs for the Profintern Club in Sverdlovsk (1930), Hello to Komsomol sculptors (1933), the First Iron of Magnitogorsk (1937). Recent works included “K. Marx" (1947) and “For The Native Fields" (1947).

Further Sergei S. Aleshin taught at the leading Moscow universities.

Professor, Commander of the Order of Lenin.


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