We invite You to the Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia 23.04.2015 to the exhibition "Berlin 1945. The victory in war photos of correspondent – A. Arkhipova"
The exhibition will be opened for visitors since 23.04.2015 till 30.08.2015 year.
Anatoly A. Arkhipov (1913 – 1950) in the years of the Great Patriotic war, he was working as a military photographer for the newspaper "Frontline illustration", and he was on tour in Leningrad and the Ukraine. Together with parts of the 1-st Belorussian front, he has participated in the liberation of Belarus, Poland, has come to Berlin.
The exhibition was created with active participation of the descendants of A. A. Arkhipova and is presented a series of photographs taken during the storming of Berlin, the first weeks of peaceful life of the former capital of Nazi Germany in May 1945, as well as several earlier works. These pictures are shown the soldiers of the red Army and the people of Berlin, fellow reporters and prisoners. A significant portion of the photos were not intended for publication and was made "in memory", at the request of the officers and soldiers, by order of the commanders of various ranks. In the subjects who chose A. A. Arkhipov, manifested great powers of observation and a definite sense of humor and irony.
For years, the name A. A. Arkhipova was almost forgotten and fans of historical photographs, and the majority of specialists. Many of his photos were published without the name of the author or attributed to other photographers. The prints and negatives, making the archive "Frontline illustration", and in the possession of one of the journals of the Ministry of defense of the USSR, in the early 1990-s, with the closure of the magazine were scattered. Fortunately, the family photographer preserved archive of the author's negatives. We hope that our exhibition will open to the modern generation of documentary and artistic heritage of war correspondent – A. A. Arkhipova. The exhibition is organized jointly with the Federal state institution "Russian research Institute for cultural and natural heritage of D. S. Likhachev" GBUK "The State Museum of defense of Moscow" with support of the Russian military historical society.
