Seven Days

by Leonid Volynsky, Ronald Vroon (Translator)

Author was Soviet soldier involved in tracing and preserving the collection from Dresden Art Gallery in 1945. An unusual book, with contemporary photos and reproductions from the collection.

Genres: Art, History

140 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1964

About the author

Леонид Волынский
Soviet writer and artist, organizer of the rescue of the Dresden Art Gallery after the end of the Second World War.

Leonid Rabinovich worked as an artist at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater, volunteered for the war. He was captured, fled, reached Germany, and in April 1945 he was in Dresden with the rank of lieutenant. With a group of five soldiers, he found the burial place of the paintings of the Dresden Gallery and organized their rescue and evacuation (the events are described in the autobiographical story "Seven Days" (1958).

After the war he returned to Kiev and under the pseudonym Leonid Volynsky published a number of books, of which the most popular were books about artists addressed to youth: "House in the Sun" (1961, about Vincent Van Gogh), "Face of Time" (1962, about Russian artists- Peredvizhniki), The Green Tree of Life (1964, about the French Impressionists), and Pages of the Stone Chronicle (1967, about the masterpieces of Russian architecture).

Reviews

[Ghazaleh · Rating 3 out of 5]

این کتاب برای من جالب بود گرچه نتونسته بود اون حس عملیات نجات و رو به من برسونه ( حس کنجکاوی و حس بودن در داستان همراه با نجات دهندگان اثار هنری) ولی قسمت هایی که از نقاشی ها و هنرمندان صحبت میکرد بسیار مفید، خلاصه و جالب بود☺️

[Pardis · Rating 2 out of 5]

کتاب درباره عملیات نجات شاهکارهای نقاشی‌ایست که مسیر تاریخ هنر را تغییر داده است. کتاب هم روایت عملیات نجات است و هم شرحی بر آثار مهم نقاشی نجات یافته و پدیدآورندگان آنها.