CEC is ready to engage in agitation with the help of painted boxes

The Central Election Commission is ready to engage in political agitation with the help of painted boxes, said the head of the CEC Vladimir Churov at the opening in the atrium of the Central Exhibition "Socio-political history of Russia in the works miniature painting." The event, devoted to the holiday on 4 November, the Day of National Unity, is the life of Russian electoral system in the form of , writes Vremya Novostei.

Audiences were presented to the box famous factory village Fedoskino, scenes on political subjects, tells the publication. The earliest home page were presented copies of "Three " Viktor Vasnetsov and Zaporozhtsev writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan "Ilya Repin.

The bulk of the exhibition included the work of the Soviet period. Especially a lot of it was Lenin: from Pahari, with the farmer, with Konstantinovnoy Nadezhda Krupskaya, with children at the rally. One box has developed a canonical image of Illich with stars - cherubic curly boy.

In the CEC also hit Nikita Khrushchev, portrayed directly on the podium Mausoleum, and the young Leonid Brezhnev, as well as Zhukov, Lomonosov, Suvorov, Kutuzov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, counselor, Pushkin and Gorky. Scenes boxes depicted storming the Winter, Red Riding, the mobilization of the village, parade November 1941, at Pushkin Square and the soldier flag with the swastika.

The pearl collection has become a subject story: Box 1950, representing the Election Commission to leave the Soviet electorate. The Commission goes on decorated stretching "All in the elections!", As voters greeted her with , song and dance.

"I had to face a campaign of porcelain, but mural painting campaign for the first time I see" - confessed Churov. He did not rule out the emergence of future boxes with electoral motives and immediately offered creative subjects: "For example, a pensioner, a veteran of the first vote on the internet or a group of journalists discussing the outcome of the vote in the atrium of the CEC."

Recent political history of Russia was also reflected popular artists: Fedoskino wrote in the boxes with the logo "United Russia", with portraits of Putin, Medvedev, Zhirinovsky, Luzhkov, Gromov, George Bush and Margaret Thatcher. The portraits were made not for personal orders of politicians, and for gifts. Customer is a Present can cost from 3 thousand to 20-30 thousand rubles, said publication.

Guide Irina Dyakova confirmed that such works of art were not a departure from the folk tradition. According to her, the foundation stories make up the stage tea party, roundelays virgins-Beauty and the troika of Bubency. However Paleha Unlike the masters, who worked at a stringent canons, reminiscent , craftsmen always portrayed reality: "The live, then draw."