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Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov

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Soviet sculptor (1881-1952)

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Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov was a Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Greek-Armenian descent. He was a People's Artist of the USSR in visual arts, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts, and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949.

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Stalin Prize
Order of Lenin
People's Painter of the USSR
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov was a Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Greek-Armenian descent. He was a People's Artist of the USSR in visual arts, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts, and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949. Merkurov was considered the greatest Soviet master of post-mortem masks. He was the sculptor of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin in the USSR.

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deceased
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Lived 1881 to 1952 · aged 70
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