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The Year 1918 in Petrograd

painting by Petrov-Vodkin

Also known as: “Petrograd Madonna”

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In his celebrated painting The Year 1918 in Petrograd, also known as the Petrograd Madonna (1920), the events of the revolution are treated as bloodless and humanitarian, as if they were somehow abstract. This form of idealization was characteristic of the mature works of Petrov-Vodkin, and it is evident…
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