First Days of October, Georgy Savitsky (1887 – 1949) Daily LIFT #156

First Days of October, Georgy Savitsky (1887 – 1949) Daily LIFT #156

Savitsky was a founder of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia and a prominent early Socialist Realist Soviet painter. This painting portrayed a Bolshevik street guard in the earliest days of the revolution. It was completed in 1930.