On December 30, 1922, the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was approved at the First All-Union Congress of Soviets.
In December, the Union, in July - the government.
Treaty on the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was signed on December 29, 1922 at a conference of delegations from the congresses of Soviets of the RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, BSSR and ZSFSR and approved by the First All-Union Congress of Soviets. December 30 is considered the official date of the formation of the USSR, although the government of the USSR and the allied ministries were created only in July 1923.
From 4 to 16.
IN different years the number of union republics within the USSR ranged from 4 to 16, but for the longest time the Soviet Union consisted of 15 republics - the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Kazakh SSR, Uzbek SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Turkmen SSR, Tajik SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR and Estonian SSR.
Three Constitutions in 69 years.
For nearly 69 years of its existence, the Soviet Union has changed three constitutions, which were adopted in 1924, 1936 and 1977. According to the first supreme body state power in the country was All-Union Congress Councils, according to the second - the bicameral Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The third constitution also initially had a bicameral parliament, which, in the 1988 edition, gave way to the Congress people's deputies THE USSR.
Kalinin led the USSR the longest.
Legally, the head of state in the Soviet Union in different years was considered the Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, Chairman of the Presidium Supreme Council USSR, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and President of the USSR. Formally, the longest head of the USSR was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, who for 16 years held the post of Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, and then for eight years was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
The flag was approved later than the Constitution.
In the Treaty on the Formation of the USSR, it was determined that the new state has its own flag, but it was not given a clear description. In January 1924, the first Constitution of the USSR was approved, however, there was no indication of what the flag looked like. new country. And only in April 1924, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR approved a scarlet flag with a red five-pointed star, a sickle and a hammer as a flag.
In America - stars, in the USSR - slogans.
In 1923, the coat of arms was approved Soviet Union- image of a sickle and a hammer on the background the globe, in the rays of the sun and framed by ears of corn, with an inscription in the languages of the Union republics "Proletarians of all countries, unite!". The number of inscriptions depended on the number of republics in the USSR, just as the number of stars on the US flag depends on the number of states.
universal anthem.
From 1922 to 1943, the anthem of the Soviet Union was "The Internationale" - a French song with music by Pierre Degeyter and words by Eugene Pottier, translated by Arkady Kots. In December 1943, a new national anthem was created and approved with lyrics by Sergei Mikhalkov and Gabriel El-Registan and music by Alexander Alexandrov. Alexandrov's music with a modified text by Mikhalkov is currently the anthem of Russia.
A country the size of a mainland.
The Soviet Union occupied an area of 22,400,000 square kilometers, being the most big country on the planet. The size of the USSR was comparable to the size North America, including the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The boundary is one and a half equator.
The Soviet Union had the longest border in the world, over 60,000 kilometers, and bordered on 14 states. Curiously, the length of the border modern Russia almost the same - about 60,900 km. At the same time, Russia borders on 18 states - 16 recognized and 2 partially recognized.
The highest point of the Union.
The highest point of the Soviet Union was a mountain in the Tajik SSR with a height of 7495 meters, which in different years was called Stalin Peak and Communism Peak. In 1998, the authorities of Tajikistan gave it a third name - Samani Peak, in honor of the emir who founded the first Tajik state.
Unique capital.
Despite the tradition that existed in the USSR of renaming cities in honor of prominent Soviet figures, this process did not actually affect the capitals of the Union republics. The only exception was the capital of the Kirghiz SSR, the city of Frunze, renamed in honor of the Soviet commander Mikhail Frunze, who was a local native. At the same time, the city was first renamed, and then became the capital of the union republic. In 1991, Frunze was renamed Bishkek.
The Soviet Union in the mid-1950s - early 1960s made a kind of "scientific and technical hat-trick" - in 1954 it created the world's first nuclear power plant, in 1957 it launched the world's first artificial satellite into orbit, and in 1961 launched the world's first spaceship with a person on board. These events took place respectively 9, 12 and 15 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, in which the USSR suffered the greatest material and human losses among the participating countries.
The USSR did not lose wars.
During its existence, the Soviet Union officially participated in three wars - Soviet-Finnish war 1939–1940, Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 and in Soviet-Japanese War 1945. All these armed conflicts ended with the victory of the Soviet Union.
1204 Olympic medals.
During the existence of the USSR, athletes of the Soviet Union took part in 18 Olympics (9 summer and 9 winter), winning 1204 medals (473 gold, 376 silver and 355 bronze). According to this indicator, the Soviet Union to this day ranks second, second only to the United States. For comparison, the third-placed Great Britain has 806 Olympic awards with 49 participations in Olympic Games. As for modern Russia, it takes 9th place - 521 medals after 11 Olympiads.
First and last referendum.
In the entire history of the existence of the USSR, the only all-Union referendum was held, which took place on March 17, 1991. It raised the question of the future existence of the USSR. More than 77 percent of the referendum participants voted for the preservation of the Soviet Union. In December of the same year, the heads of the RSFSR of the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR announced the termination of the existence of a single country.
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In a heated argument about Soviet women, sitting in the luxurious Gorky Park in Moscow, two friends came together, two faithful comrades who had passed side by side, shoulder to shoulder all their lives. They were both in their 60s.
An interesting dispute arose when a company of young people, consisting mainly of representatives of the weaker sex, passed by them. There have always been more girls than boys, so the history of the country evolved - a country that survived terrible wars who claimed the lives of millions of defenders of their homeland, family, shelter.
So there were 6 or 7 girls, and seducers were crucifying themselves with might and main - two puny guys, with jeans fashionably lowered on skinny hips ...
The old people silently followed this very ordinary company with their eyes. And as soon as they passed, they began to do what grandmothers usually do in the markets - to discuss.
They discussed for a long time, frantically, relying on the memory of those women who raised them - on mothers and grandmothers. Remembered their young years, youth, student years, recalled the girls and women of the Soviet era. And they both agreed: Soviet women- this is the basis of morality, spirituality, beauty and purity.
Their reasoning reached a certain degree and intensity when they began to enumerate the most compelling arguments in support of the above judgment.
In the Soviet Union, life was more or less acceptable, we all smiled and tried to solve problems together. Women were respected, loved and treated, first of all, as the one who gave new life. And this sacrament is to be a mother, society protected and appreciated. To offend or insult a girl was unacceptable and outrageous. And among Soviet children, love and respect for female gender inoculated with mother's milk.
Then the questions of friendship, education, culture, the problems of morality and morality were "in vogue". Women were forbidden to have abortions, Soviet women gave birth to healthy children, and it was quite common for almost every family to have at least 3 children.
By the way, the fight against abortion was legalized in 1936, referring to the ideological explanation that sounded like this (read to the end):
“While all the bourgeois countries of the world do not know where to put their people, where to find work for them, how to feed them, we do not have enough people. We have so much to do! ... We need more and more fighters - the builders of this life. We need people. Abortion, the destruction of nascent life, is unacceptable in our state of socialism under construction. Abortion is an evil legacy of that order, when a person lived by narrow personal interests, and not by the life of a team ... In our life there can be no gap between the personal and the public. We even have such seemingly intimate issues as the family, like the birth of children, from personal to public. The Soviet woman is equal in rights with a man. The doors to all branches of labor are open to it. But our Soviet woman is not exempt from that great and honorable duty that nature has endowed her with: she is a mother, she will give birth. And this, no doubt, is a matter of great social significance.
But in 1955, abortions and criminal prosecution for him were canceled. But we digress.
The Soviet woman did not flutter from the boutique to the massage therapist and did not think about how she could kill time on a Friday evening. She worked hard, she gave birth to children, she sewed and knitted beautifully, managed to remain the most beautiful and managed to read a lot.
Now, for some reason, it’s not customary to remember this, but our mothers and grandmothers are a worthy role model, and only they know how they all managed to go to work, raise children, feed children, clean and tidy, and much more, and all this to remain kind, gentle, affectionate and loving.
Today's women "want to live for themselves", so children are sometimes considered by them as a burden, as an irrational waste of money. Our mothers and grandmothers did not think so.
The Soviet woman was well-mannered, educated, and the priorities of the family were always in the first place. Sacrifice of oneself, one's youth and beauty for the benefit of one's children was the usual norm.
In matters of fashion and style, they bought what was in stores and did not strain, the main thing is to keep it clean and tidy. Things and rags were treated accordingly. Us guys just liked the girls, and it doesn't matter what the tag was on evening dress at my companion. We didn't value women as a thing. It was enough to look into her eyes, to see the soul, to smile at the answer.
The Soviet woman did not worry about her manicure, washing the dishes, was not afraid to work on a par with men. I admire Soviet women. Of course they were different, but the values were almost in each. Real values unknown to this generation.
Soviet women truly loved, truly lived and worked truly.
To be honest, you can’t say that, but judging by the photographs of those years, Soviet women were gray, unkempt and downtrodden. Full, similar to aunts at the age of 30, female comrades, workhorses: a perm, eyebrow threads and the worst ero-nightmare of today's man is increased shaggyness.
WITH Soviet films and photographs of our grandmothers are witnesses to this: the Soviet woman was gray and rumpled. Early obesity and old age by the age of thirty, pitiful attempts at elegance with general neglect. A nightmare perm, eyebrows with threads or Brezhnev's eyebrows. Just an erotic nightmare! © - I caught such a comment to one of my posts.
Of course, judging a woman of the USSR by today's standards is the same as condemning the statue of Venus de Milo for swollen hips, a tummy and not a fit figure at all. We have manicures, pedicures, cellulite massages and shops at every turn. We can find and buy anything that comes into our heads. We can even order it from the USA! The Soviet woman, probably, would have fallen out of the sediment from such an opportunity. Nevertheless, there is some truth in the words of the author.
The ideology of that time prescribed an unambiguous attitude to the sexual issue: a Soviet woman is, first of all, a comrade in the construction of socialism. And a friend at a construction site is a guy who will help you carry bricks. So the official ideal of beauty in Soviet society was something like this:
True, there was also a “everyday” ideal - a made-up fashionista with well-groomed hands - but he was stigmatized and condemned in every way, just look at the fate of Anfisa in “Girls” or, remember, that same “not guilty me” in the Diamond Hand? This schizophrenic gap between official and social ideals beauty, probably drove women crazy. But what, after all, so disfigured the Soviet woman?
Job. Hard work, a lot. True, feminism in the country of victorious feminism ... did not win - a woman also worked hard at home. The charming story "A week is like a week" tells how main character torn between work at the research institute, her two children, home, stores with a shortage and her husband. This man is described as positive character, but, if you look closely, does not help his wife too much. Running around in the style of the electronic game "Just you wait!" aging a woman at a breakneck pace. ABOUT proper nutrition, SPA, eight-hour sleep and the absence of stress were out of the question.
The Soviet woman, as a rule, had children. This was taken for granted. That is, at first she experienced childbirth, which then was an order of magnitude harder and more dangerous - now medicine seems to be trying to turn around human face and even develop. Then she worked around the house and at the same time took care of the children, acquiring fresh stretch marks and saggy breasts. And then - went, mother, to work! The Soviet Motherland needs you!
In return for a woman, the Soviet Motherland offered absolutely nothing. I had to get everything through friends or wait until they were “thrown out” into the store and take it with a fight: clothes, shoes, underwear. It was easy to buy only complete crap. Those who agreed to suck were also there, but they looked exactly the same.
Soviet industry preferred to engage in war rather than love: weapons were mainly produced, and household goods - as it turned out. So there was nothing special for a woman to cover up the delights of life in the USSR. Do not forget, we are talking about an average woman, without blat, who had nowhere to "get" and had no time to "snatch". So, she had Leningradskaya mascara, which had to be spit in before use, Ballet cream, cosmetic vaseline, lipstick with a strange sweetish fragrance, a couple of varieties of perfume and tweezers for eyebrows. Well, and cucumbers for masks. No sugar waxing, no spas and salons. Only hairdressing salons were well developed, where mostly women did this (by the way, do not flatter yourself, in the photo - models, not just women):
By the way. The Soviet woman tried to somehow follow fashion. But the forces were very limited: even fashion women turned out to be exactly the same: if “babette” is in fashion - millions of “babettes” go out into the street, jackets “with shoulder pads” are in fashion - women invent these “shoulder pads” from improvised means. In a word, only Soviet optimism, strictly recommended to everyone, helped to be a beautiful Soviet woman.
Despite all this, Soviet women were beautiful. Very different and very natural. Yes, they do not meet the "gold standard" of our time - so that up to sixty years it is smooth, elastic and without wrinkles, so that a young lover is "retired" like Madonna's.
But they had something else. Something we lost, tender, important.
The present.
The most famous and significant for the history of art pictures of the world for your inspiration.
The immortal paintings of great artists are admired by millions of people. Art, classical and modern, is one of the main sources of inspiration, taste and cultural education of any person, and even more creative.
worldwide famous paintings certainly more than 33. There are several hundred of them, and all of them would not fit in one review. Therefore, for ease of viewing, we have selected a few that are most significant for world culture and are often copied. Each work is accompanied interesting fact, explanation artistic sense or history of its creation.
Raphael "Sistine Madonna" 1512
Stored in the Old Masters Gallery in Dresden.
The painting has little secret: the background, which looks like clouds from afar, upon closer examination turns out to be the heads of angels. And the two angels depicted in the picture below have become the motif of numerous postcards and posters.
Rembrandt "The Night Watch" 1642
Stored in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
The true name of the painting by Rembrandt is "The performance of the rifle company of Captain Frans Banning Cock and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburg." Art critics who discovered the painting in the 19th century thought that the figures were standing against a dark background, and it was called " The night Watch". Later it turned out that a layer of soot makes the picture dark, and the action actually takes place during the day. However, the picture has already entered the treasury of world art under the name "Night Watch".
Leonardo da Vinci "The Last Supper" 1495-1498
Located in the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
Over the more than 500-year history of the existence of the work, the fresco was repeatedly destroyed: a doorway was made through the painting, and then a doorway was laid, the refectory of the monastery, where the image is located, was used as an armory, a prison, and bombed. famous fresco restored at least five times, with the last restoration taking 21 years. Today, to view the work of art, visitors must book tickets in advance and can only spend 15 minutes in the refectory.
Salvador Dali "The Persistence of Memory" 1931
According to the author himself, the picture was painted as a result of associations that arose in Dali at the sight of processed cheese. Returning from the cinema, where she went that evening, Gala quite correctly predicted that no one who saw "The Persistence of Memory" once would forget it.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder "Tower of Babel" 1563
Stored at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
According to Brueghel, in the failure that befell the construction Tower of Babel, are not guilty of sudden arising according to biblical story language barriers; and mistakes made during the construction process. At first glance, the huge building seems solid enough, but upon closer inspection, it is clear that all the tiers are laid unevenly, the lower floors are either unfinished or are already collapsing, the building itself is tilting towards the city, and the prospects for the entire project are very sad.
Kazimir Malevich "Black Square" 1915
According to the artist, he painted the picture for several months. Subsequently, Malevich made several copies of the "Black Square" (according to some sources, seven). According to one version, the artist was unable to complete the work on the painting in the right time, so he had to cover up the work with black paint. Subsequently, after the recognition of the public, Malevich painted new "Black Squares" already on blank canvases. Malevich also painted the paintings "Red Square" (two copies) and one "White Square".
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin "Bathing the red horse" 1912
Located in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Painted in 1912, the picture turned out to be visionary. The red horse acts as the Destiny of Russia or Russia itself, which the fragile and young rider is unable to hold. thus, the artist symbolically predicted with his painting the “red” fate of Russia in the 20th century.
Peter Paul Rubens "The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus" 1617-1618
Stored in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
The painting "The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus" is considered the personification of courageous passion and bodily beauty. The strong, muscular arms of young men pick up young naked women to put them on horseback. The sons of Zeus and Leda steal the brides of their cousins.
Paul Gauguin "Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?" 1898
Stored at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
At the direction of Gauguin himself, the picture should be read from right to left - the three main groups of figures illustrate the questions posed in the title. Three women with a child represent the beginning of life; middle group symbolizes the daily existence of maturity; in the final group, as conceived by the artist, " old woman, approaching death, seems reconciled and indulged in her thoughts", at her feet "a strange White bird…represents the futility of words.”
Eugene Delacroix "Liberty Leading the People" 1830
Stored in the Louvre in Paris
Delacroix created a painting based on the July Revolution of 1830 in France. In a letter to his brother on October 12, 1830, Delacroix writes: "If I did not fight for the Motherland, then at least I will write for her." The bare chest of a woman leading the people symbolizes selflessness french people that time, which with " bare chested' went to the enemy.
Claude Monet "Impression. Rising Sun" 1872
Stored at the Musée Marmottan in Paris.
The title of the piece is "Impression, soleil levant" with light hand journalist L. Leroy became a name artistic direction"impressionism". The painting was painted from nature in the old outport of Le Havre in France.
Jan Vermeer "Girl with a pearl earring" 1665
Stored in the Mauritshuis Gallery in The Hague.
One of the most famous paintings Dutch artist Jan Vermeer is often referred to as northern or Dutch Mona Lisa. Very little is known about the painting: it is not dated, the name of the depicted girl is not known. In 2003 by novel of the same name Tracey Chevalier was filmed Feature Film"Girl with a Pearl Earring", in which the history of the creation of the canvas is hypothetically restored in the context of biography and family life Vermeer.
Ivan Aivazovsky "The Ninth Wave" 1850
Stored in St. Petersburg in the State Russian Museum.
Ivan Aivazovsky is a world famous Russian marine painter who has dedicated his life to depicting the sea. He created about six thousand works, each of which received recognition during the life of the artist. The painting "The Ninth Wave" is included in the book "100 Great Paintings".
Andrei Rublev "Trinity" 1425-1427
The icon of the Holy Trinity, painted by Andrei Rublev in the 15th century, is one of the most famous Russian icons. The icon is a board in a vertical format. The tsars (Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov, Mikhail Fedorovich) "wrapped" the icon with gold, silver and precious stones. Today the salary is stored in the Sergiev Posad State Museum-Reserve.
Mikhail Vrubel "Seated Demon" 1890
Stored in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
The plot of the picture is inspired by Lermontov's poem "The Demon". The demon is an image of the strength of the human spirit, internal struggle, doubts. Tragically clasping his hands, the Demon sits with sad, huge eyes directed into the distance, surrounded by unprecedented flowers.
William Blake "The Great Architect" 1794
Stored in british museum in London.
The name of the painting "The Ancient of Days" literally translates from English as "Ancient of Days". This phrase was used as the name of God. Main character pictures - God at the moment of creation, who does not establish order, but limits freedom and marks the limits of the imagination.
Edouard Manet "Bar at the Folies Bergère" 1882
Stored at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
The Folies Bergère is a variety show and cabaret in Paris. Manet frequented the Folies Bergère and ended up painting this painting, his last before his death in 1883. Behind the bar, in the midst of a crowd of drinking, eating, talking and smoking, a barmaid is absorbed in her own thoughts, watching a trapeze acrobat, which can be seen in the upper left corner of the picture.
Titian "Earthly Love and Heavenly Love" 1515-1516
Stored in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
It is noteworthy that the modern name of the painting was not given by the artist himself, but began to be used only two centuries later. Until that time, the painting had various titles: "Beauty embellished and unadorned" (1613), "Three types of love" (1650), "Divine and secular women" (1700), and, in the end, "Earthly love and Heavenly love" (1792 and 1833).
Mikhail Nesterov "Vision to the youth Bartholomew" 1889-1890
Stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
The first and most significant work from the cycle dedicated to Sergius of Radonezh. Until the end of his days, the artist was convinced that “The Vision of the Young Bartholomew” was his best work. In his old age, the artist liked to repeat: “It’s not me who will live. The “Young Bartholomew” will live.” Now, if in thirty, fifty years after my death he will still say something to people - that means he is alive, which means that I am also alive ."
Pieter Bruegel the Elder "The Parable of the Blind" 1568
Stored in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.
Other names of the painting are “The Blind”, “Parabola of the Blind”, “The Blind Leading the Blind”. It is believed that the plot of the picture is based on the biblical parable of the blind: "If the blind lead the blind, then both of them will fall into the pit."
Viktor Vasnetsov "Alyonushka" 1881
Stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery.
The fairy tale "About sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka" is taken as a basis. Initially, Vasnetsov's painting was called "Fool Alyonushka". Orphans were called “fools” at that time. “Alyonushka,” the artist himself later said, “as if she had been living in my head for a long time, but in reality I saw her in Akhtyrka when I met one simple-haired girl who struck my imagination. There was so much longing, loneliness and purely Russian sadness in her eyes ... Some special Russian spirit emanated from her."
Vincent van Gogh Starry Night 1889
Stored in the Museum contemporary art in NYC.
Unlike most of the artist's paintings, " Starlight Night"was written from memory. Van Gogh was at that time in the Saint-Remy hospital, tormented by bouts of insanity.
Karl Bryullov "The Last Day of Pompeii" 1830-1833
Stored in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
The painting depicts the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. e. and the destruction of the city of Pompeii near Naples. The image of the artist in the left corner of the picture is a self-portrait of the author.
Pablo Picasso "Girl on a ball" 1905
Stored in Pushkin Museum, Moscow
The painting ended up in Russia thanks to the industrialist Ivan Abramovich Morozov, who bought it in 1913 for 16,000 francs. In 1918, the personal collection of I. A. Morozov was nationalized. IN currently the painting is in the collection State Museum fine arts named after A.S. Pushkin.
Leonardo da Vinci "Madonna Litta" 1491
Stored in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
The original title of the painting is Madonna and Child. Modern name painting comes from the name of its owner - Count Litt, the owner of the family art gallery in Milan. There is an assumption that the figure of the baby was not painted by Leonardo da Vinci, but belongs to the brush of one of his students. This is evidenced by the baby's pose, which is unusual for the author's manner.
Jean Ingres "Turkish Baths" 1862
Stored in the Louvre in Paris.
Ingres finished painting this picture when he was already over 80 years old. With this picture, the artist sums up a peculiar result of the image of bathers, the themes of which have long been present in his work. Initially, the canvas was in the form of a square, but a year after its completion, the artist turned it into round picture- tondo.
Ivan Shishkin, Konstantin Savitsky "Morning in a pine forest" 1889
Stored in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
"Morning in pine forest"- a painting by Russian artists Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. Savitsky painted bears, but the collector Pavel Tretyakov, when he acquired the painting, erased his signature, so now only Shishkin is indicated as the author of the painting.
Mikhail Vrubel "The Swan Princess" 1900
Stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery
The picture was painted on the basis of the stage image of the heroine of the opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov based on the plot of the fairy tale of the same name by A. S. Pushkin. Vrubel created sketches for the scenery and costumes for the premiere of the opera in 1900, and his wife sang the part of the Swan Princess.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo "Portrait of Emperor Rudolf II in the form of Vertumnus" 1590
Located in Skokloster Castle in Stockholm.
One of the few surviving works of the artist, who made portraits from fruits, vegetables, flowers, crustaceans, fish, pearls, musical and other instruments, books, and so on. "Vertumnus" is a portrait of the emperor, represented as the ancient Roman god of the seasons, vegetation and transformation. In the picture, Rudolph consists entirely of fruits, flowers and vegetables.
Edgar Degas "Blue Dancers" 1897
Located in the Museum of Art. A. S. Pushkin in Moscow.
Degas was a big fan of ballet. He is called the artist of ballerinas. Work " blue dancers" refers to late period Degas' creativity, when his eyesight weakened, and he began to work with large color spots, giving paramount importance to the decorative organization of the surface of the picture.
Leonardo da Vinci "Mona Lisa" 1503-1505
Stored in the Louvre, Paris.
"Mona Lisa" might not have received worldwide fame, if she had not been kidnapped in 1911 by an employee of the Louvre. The picture was found two years later in Italy: the thief responded to an ad in the newspaper and offered to sell the Gioconda to the director Uffizi galleries. All this time, while the investigation was going on, "Mona Lisa" did not leave the covers of newspapers and magazines around the world, becoming an object of copying and worship.
Sandro Botticelli "The Birth of Venus" 1486
Stored in Florence at the Uffizi Gallery
The painting illustrates the myth of the birth of Aphrodite. The naked goddess floats to the shore in an open shell, driven by the wind. On the left side of the picture, Zephyr (the west wind), in the arms of his wife Chlorida, blows on a shell, creating a wind filled with flowers. On the shore, the goddess is met by one of the graces. "The Birth of Venus" is well preserved due to the fact that Botticelli applied to the picture protective layer from egg yolk.
Michelangelo "Creation of Adam" 1511
Is in Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
