Ilya Glazunov died

In Moscow, on Sunday night at the age of 87, artist Ilya Glazunov died. This is reported by Interfax. The cause of death was a heart attack.

According to RIA Novosti, the family of the deceased was condolences by Patriarch Kirill.

Glazunov was born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculptures and Architecture. Repin. The first personal exhibition was held in 1957 in Moscow.

Children's poet Sergey Mikhalkov took part in the fate of Glazunov. According to the artist himself, he "owes literally to everyone."

In the early 1960s, Glazunov founded the Patriotic club "Rodina", which, however, was soon eliminated. In the 1970s he opposed the general plan of the reconstruction of Moscow. Together with the composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, he organized among cultural figures the collection of signatures under a letter against the general plan in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. As a result, the project of the general plan was withdrawn.

In the same years, he wrote a number of portraits of Soviet functionaries, including the Secretary General of the Central Committee of Leonid Brezhnev and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR Nikolai Shchelokov, as well as friendly leaders friendly to the Soviets, including Salvador Allende, Indira Gandhi, Urho Kalev Kekkonen.

In 1977, the Glazunov exhibition, at which, among other things, his thesis work of the War Road (1957) was shown, was closed as "contradicting Soviet ideology." The very picture of the "road of war" was destroyed; In the future, the artist wrote her copy.

In 1978, Glazunov wrote a huge canvas "Mystery of the XX century", at which he presented key events of the century. In perestroika, the picture caused a lot of controversy. In 1988, another huge canvas appeared - "Great Russia" - dedicated to the history and culture of the country over the past 1000 years.

Glazunov declared himself about himself as a monarchist and supporter of class public division. He opposed democracy.

In 1987, he founded in Moscow the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and remained its rector until the end of his life.

He received a lot of awards from both Soviet and post -Soviet Russian authorities. Repeatedly met with Vladimir Putin.

In 2012, Glazunov was a trustee of Putin as a presidential candidate.