The year 1934 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events

• Exhibition named «Women in Socialist construction» was opened in March in the Russian museum in Leningrad. The participants were Isaak Brodsky, Piotr Buchkin, Kazimir Malevich, Victoria Belakovskaya, Alexander Lubimov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Vladimir Malagis, Yaroslav Nikolaev, Konstantin Rudakov, and other contemporary soviet artists.^[1]
• Isaak Brodsky, a pupil of Ilya Repin, has been appointed director of the All-Russian Academy of Arts and the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (since 1944 named after Ilya Repin).
• The Secondary Art School was created under the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
• Retrospective Exhibition of works by Honored Artist of the RSFSR Isaak Brodsky was opened in Moscow and Leningrad.
• Exhibition named «Leningrad in the image of contemporary artists» was opened in November in Leningrad. The participants were Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Vladimir Konashevich, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Victor Proshkin, Vasily Vikulov, and other contemporary Leningrad artists.^[2]

Births

• January 10 — Olga Yefimova (Russian: Ефимова Ольга Александровна), Russian Soviet painter (died 1994).

Deaths

• July 15 — Antonina Rzhevskaya (Russian: Ржевская Антонина Леонардовна), Russian painter (born 1861).
• October 14 — Mikhail Matyushin (Russian: Матюшин Михаил Васильевич), Russian artist and art educator (born 1861).
• November 27 — Mitrofan Grekov (Russian: Греков Митрофан Борисович), Russian and Soviet battle painter (born 1882)

Gallery

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  Mikhail Matyushin
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  Antonina Rzhevskaya