Soldatki

May 14, 2015, the "Soldiers" housewarming - this sculpture series, created by Zharikov in 1968-69, from his sculptural workshop that is located on Turgenev, moved to the museum of local lore Zlatoust. - This gift Vladimir Pavlovich dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. He considered that such important for all works should become the property of all Zlatoustians and visitors of the city, - said the wife of the sculptor Tatyana Zharikova. - Especially since the International Museum Day is coming soon, and our museum celebrates its 190th anniversary this year. And while the main curator of the museum Svetlana Progunova and her assistants were preparing to pack a valuable artistic gift from cast iron, we examined the "Soldiers". This is a special "sculpture family" for Vladimir Pavlovich. Memory of the war and a greeting to those close to people, first of all, my grandmother - Praskovie Mitrofanovna. Thanks to her ten-year-old Volodya and his younger sister survived the war and survived. And such fates, as in Zharikov, during a brutal and very long battle with fascism was not found. "Soldiers" is a powerful collective image of a woman who kept her family hearth in torment, waited for her husband from the war and worked day and night, replacing the men who went to the front. In the museum to meet with the "Soldiers".