Khmelko Mikhail Ivanovich

People's Artist of the USSR, twice winner of the Stalin Prize, became famous after the war by painting "The Motherland Triumph" devoted to the Victory Day Parade on Red Square. Another cult work about the Pereiaslav Rada is "Forever with Moscow, Forever with the Russian People" completed in 1951. "Crossing of the Dnieper", "Miner Wedding", "T. Shevchenko and M. Shchepkin in Moscow" are also very popular.

But his diorama "Medical Care in Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Armed Forces" made for the Kiev Museum of Medicine, is not widely known. As the museum director Alexander Grando told, the artist "literally spent day and night in the outlines of a future diorama, filling it with the details, artfully combining the background and characters with the objects of the era. Valley of the Cossack confrontation against royal cuirassiers in a heavy armor looks like pulsing."

Michael Khmelko was born in Kiev in 1946, he graduated from the Art Institute, where he studied at Karp Trohimenko’s Studio. From 1948 to 1973 Mikhail taught at the Institute himself.