The convoy on the Northern Dvina

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia (Petrozavodsk, Russia).

The work, created to the order of the Institute of Party History, is a large multi-figured canvas. The plot of the picture was the so-called “surplus appraisal”, when rural residents were forced to give food to the army in difficult times of the civil war. The work is filled with drama and tension, which is read in the angular figures of the peasants, their drooping heads and piercing glances. To create human images and the surrounding landscape, the author used the techniques of analytical art, which he had mastered perfectly by that time.