“And Here, No One Needs Me”: Nikolai Zaretsky’s Post-War Years in Prague Cover Image

«А здесь я никому не нужен»: Послевоенные годы Николая Зарецкого в Праге
“And Here, No One Needs Me”: Nikolai Zaretsky’s Post-War Years in Prague

Author(s): Fedor Poljakov
Subject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Social history, History of Communism, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: 20th-Century Russian and East-European History; Nikolai Zaretsky (1876—1959); Russian Writers’ Drawings (unpublished); Life Story; Russian Emigration; Microhistory;

Summary/Abstract: In his article, Prof. Fedor Poljakov of the University of Vienna focuses on the last years a Russian émigré painter, graphic artist and art collector Nikolai Zaretsky spent in the Socialist Czechoslovakia before escaping to Paris in 1950. It also contains an overview of Zaretsky’s pre-war exhibitions in Prague and tells the story of his major unfinished project — an illustrated book Risunki Russkikh Pisatelei (Russian Writers’ Drawings).

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 191-217
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Russian