Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky

Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (21 January 1905 – 7 August 1993; Борис Алексеевич Смирнов-Русецкий) was a Soviet painter, member of Amaravella group. (In Sanskrit language Amaravella means immortality sprouts).

He was influenced by ideas of Russian cosmism and eastern mysticism.

Biography timeline

 * 1905 - Born on January 21 in St.Petersburg
 * 1917 - Moved to Moscow with family
 * 1922 - Joined the Moscow Engineering Financial University
 * 1923 - The first exhibition in Moscow
 * 1941-1955 - Imprisoned in Saratov and then in Rybinsk, Akmolinsk and Makinsk
 * 1956 - Rehabilitated after 20th Congress of the CPSU. Returns to Moscow
 * 1967 - Personal exhibition in Moscow
 * 1969 - Second personal exhibition in Moscow
 * 1979-1993 - Exhibitions in Moscow, Kiev, Pskov, Mongolia, Finland, Berlin and other places
 * 1993 - Smirnov-Rusetsky died on August 7 in St.Petersburg