the Union of Artists of the USSR

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The artists’ union; Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin was a member from 1956.

Kalaushins in the Union of Artists of the USSR

In the chronicle

1. 11. The Artist

   • …illustrations for Yury Olesha’s Three Fat Men — was graded “excellent”. In June 1956 the Union of Artists opened a personal file on the young graphic artist; he became a…
   • …on Picasso and the Russian avant-garde; during the Thaw, Kalaushin and a few companions spoke out at the Union of Artists for creative freedom and for opening the museum storerooms that held Kandinsky, Malevich and Filonov. When…
   • …interruption, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments of Architecture, History and Culture of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists. As the roster records, it was thanks to him that new life was given to the Nicholas Roerich…
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2. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …in 1999, the only chairman of the Commission for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists.

3. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • …1958 from Boris Matveyevich (f. 2732, op. 1, item 1485) and his personal file of 1956 in the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (f. 2940, op. 7, item 653).