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The comments of the Russian historian about Dmitry Shmarin pictures.
Long time in the Soviet era the artist work was leaded by the Communist Party and was the continuation of the party ideology. All pictures where dedicated to "Red Heroes-fighters against the World Bourgeois". Note that a very small amount of the Red Commanders the participants of the Russian Civil War including the top leaders as Trotsky, Toukhachevsky, are survived after Stalin 1937 total repression. There are no many pictures about Russian Civil War. Many pictures painted in USSR have a historical mistakes or a special historical falsification of the events. There are many wrong details of the uniforms, insignia because the pictures are painted later without the detail descriptions. For example, the main soviet encyclopedia about Russian Civil War has a wrong pictures about the Red Commanders period 1919-23 years.
The crash of Communism system in 1991 opened the opportunity for the artistes the facility to paint free without any political pressure. The goal is the showing the true about Russian military history and open the new historical events for Russian people. One of the "forbidden" areas of the painting was the War War I - the "Great War", because the war was qualified by Soviets as the War between Imperialists: Russia, USA, Germany, France Great Britain etc.
Dmitry Shmarin is the artist of the new free generation of Russian painters. He does learn all details about the history using the memoirs of Russian Leaders about the Great War, Russian Civil War and Allied Intervention. He does use exclusive the photo archives, the original uniforms and the personal belongings of Russian top leaders such as Tsar, general Alekseev, Wrangel, Drozdovsky, Kolchak, Ungern, Tourkul and other items from the collection of the Russian Imperial Military Historical Society named after the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich. All details are absolutely correct. During the painting Dmitry does use for copying the original belongings of the person was shown on the picture! And the events are not known for the Russian and World historians.
Those are the reasons why the pictures of Dmitry Shamarin are the MUSEUM, HISTORICAL and even the ARCHIVES items even at this moment. The main exhibitions in Russia dedicated to the Great War, the Russian Civil War and Allies Intervention have the pictures of Dmitry Shmarin.
Dmitry Shmarin is very religious, he does visit the Russian Orthodox Church. His feelings let him to create the pictures about the Orthodox with the soul and the enthusiasm.
We'd like to say him "Thank you for your Job and your social position" and "Good luck!"
Dmitry and his guests, 2 Russian brothers: the veteran of the White Army and the veteran of the Red Army. Their like a pictures of Dmitry.