Yevgeny Voiskunski

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Yevgeny Voiskunski
The Painters of the Baltic Fleet

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Born in 1922, Yevgeny Voiskunski is a veteran Russian writer. In 1940, as a second-year student at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad, he was called up to serve in the Red Army. This piece, drawn from his article “The Baltics in the Works of Literature and Art", is dedicated to the work of war artists in the Baltic Fleet during the Great Patriotic War. It was published in “Baltic Sailors in Battles at Sea and on Land. 1941-1945" (Moscow, 1991. Pp. 443-471).