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For the works about the village Anatoly Nasedkin was awarded by the Shevchenko National Prize in 1985. Many years passed before Nasedkin felt himself able to create a work devoted to the military theme – the painting «No land Beyond the Volga» (1975). «In «No Land Beyond the Volga» I showed a soldier of Stalingrad.
This is also reflected by a common saying among the Soviet defenders, who often exclaimed that "for us, there is no land beyond the Volga". [206] Total war was reflected by Axis forces, as they attacked without concern and committed to a bombing campaign which utterly destroyed the city and killed thousands of civilians, and Hitler would not ...
Volgograd, [a] formerly Tsaritsyn [b] (1589–1925) and Stalingrad [c] (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of 859.4 square kilometres (331.8 square miles), with a population of slightly over one million residents. [11]
The city was ransacked and pillaged immensely, although the building of St. Sophia Cathedral survived intact. [1] Historian Serhii Plokhy relates the description of one Giovanni da Pian del Carpine , an ambassador of Pope Innocent IV who passed through Kiev six years later: "When we were journeying through that land, we came across countless ...
Nizhny Novgorod is the sixth-largest city in Russia, the second-most populous city on the Volga, as well as the Volga Federal District. The city is located 420 kilometers (260 mi) east of Moscow . It is an important economic, transportation, scientific, educational and cultural centre in Russia and the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region , and ...
Beyond the Volga by Mikhail Nesterov, 1922. Oil on canvas, 81.5 by 107.5 cm. The canvas here at auction, Wayfarers. Beyond the Volga, undoubtedly represents the peak of Mikhail Nesterov’s mature oeuvre. It was painted in 1922 as a development of his famous Wanderer compositions that are now the pride of the Tretyakov and Tver Art Galleries.
The worst hit areas in Russia are just to the south of the Ural Mountains, about 1,200 km (750 miles) east of Moscow. Emergencies have been declared in the Orenburg and Kurgan regions of the Urals ...
The plan was for the Red Army to the west of the line to be defeated in a quick military campaign in 1941 before the onset of winter. [5] The Wehrmacht assumed that the majority of Soviet military supplies and the main part of the food and population potential of the Soviet Union existed in the lands that lay to the west of the proposed A-A line. [5]