The artist Boris Shcherbakov began the war as a sapper who mined the approaches to Moscow in 1941. Later, Shcherbakov continued to serve in the active army as a front-line artist, performing more than eighty works on the theme of war. One of Boris Shcherbakov’s famous paintings is “The Evil of the World”. The picture is filled with a sense of compassion for people whose lives were cruelly interfered with by the war.
Boris Shcherbakov. The Evil of the World.
Another of his paintings – “The Ashes of Buchenwald” – is inspired by the tragic impressions of the artist’s trip to the area of the former Nazi concentration camp. This canvas is an expression of eternal sorrow and eternal memory.
Boris Shcherbakov. The Ashes of Buchenwald.