Nikolai Tomsky
Soviet artist and pedagogist (1900–1984)
Biography
Nikolai Vasilyevich Tomsky (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич То́мский; 19 December [O.S. 6 December] 1900 – 22 November 1984) was a much-decorated Soviet sculptor, designer of many well-known ceremonial monuments of the Socialist Realism era. The sculptor first came to attention with his memorial to Sergei Kirov, a heroic bronze with friezes around the base, for which he won the 1941 Stalin Prize. Thereafter his career developed in an official direction; he would be eventually tasked to re-design Lenin's own sarcophagus, produce Stalin's bust at Stalin's grave at the Moscow Kremlin Wall, and produce at least five major statues of Lenin throughout the Soviet Union. His distinctive red-granite Lenin stood in the Leninplatz of East Berlin from 1970 to 1992.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts
Notable works
- Taganrog Lenin Monument
Genres
- sculptor
Awards & honours (12)
- Stalin Prize
- USSR State Prize
- Order of Lenin
- Hero of Socialist Labour
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of Karl Marx
- People's Painter of the USSR
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Lenin Prize
- People's Painter of the RSFSR
Quick answers about Nikolai Tomsky
- How old was Nikolai Tomsky?
- Nikolai Tomsky died on November 22, 1984 at the age of 83.
- When is Nikolai Tomsky's birthday?
- Nikolai Tomsky was born on December 19, 1900.
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- Nikolai Tomsky's zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
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- Nikolai Tomsky is a citizen of Russian Empire, Soviet Union.
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- Nikolai Tomsky is known as painter, sculptor, designer, artist.
