Yevgeny Vuchetich

Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (Russian: Евгений Викторович Вучетич; 28 December [O.S. 15 December] 1908–12 April 1974) was a Soviet sculptor and artist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style, including The Motherland Calls, the largest sculpture in the world at the time.

Biography

Vuchetich was born in Yekaterinoslav, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), the son of Viktor Vuchetich (Vučetić), a Montenegrin immigrant from the clan of Grbalj, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, of Russian and of French descent.^[1]

He was a prominent representative of the Socialist Realism style and was awarded with the Lenin Prize in 1970, the Stalin Prize (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950), Order of Lenin (twice), Order of the Patriotic War (2nd degree), Hero of Socialist Labor (1967) and People's Artist of the USSR (1959).

Family

One of his step-granddaughters is Israeli politician Ksenia Svetlova.

Works

Soviet War Memorial^[2] in Treptower Park, Berlin (1946–1949), overseen by a 13m tall monument of a Soviet soldier holding a German child, with a sword, over a broken swastika. This war memorial design was later used on coins and medals commemorating the end of fascist rule in 1945.
Nikolai Vatutin monument in Kyiv, Ukraine (1948).^[3] This monument was dismantled on 9 February 2023.^[4]
Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the United Nations garden (1957)^[5]
Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in front of the plant "Gazoapparat" in Volgograd.
A sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1958), colloquially known as "Iron Felix", used to be in Moscow at the Lubyanka Square.
The Motherland Calls! at Mamayev Kurgan (1963–1967)

The Motherland Calls
Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park
Vatutin monument in Kyiv as photographed in 2015

References

^ Иван Шевцов. Соколы. Русское Воскресение.
^ Sowjetische Ehrenmal
^ (in Ukrainian) Minkultura recommends that Kyiv dismantle the Vatutin monument near the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainska Pravda (27 January 2023)
^ (in Ukrainian) Mariinsky Park without Vatutin. The monument to the Soviet general was finally demolished, Ukrainska Pravda – Zhyttia (9 February 2023)
^ Swords Into Plowshares, United Nations Cyber School Bus, United Nations, UN.org, 2001, retrieved on: August 4, 2007

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