Background
SHERVUD, Leonid was born on April 29, 1871 in Moscow.
SHERVUD, Leonid was born on April 29, 1871 in Moscow.
1892 graduate Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. 1898 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
After graduate Academy used Academy grant to spend almost a year in Rodin’s workshop, Paris. 1901 returned to Russia. From 1918 professor, Academy of Arts.
After 1917 October Revol helped implement Lenin’s “monumental propaganda” plan. In early stages of World War 2 taken ill in Leningrad and evacuated to Ivanovo-Voznesensk. A year later returned to Moscow.
Displayed his work in exhibitions of Academy of Arts, New Social and in Rome. Wor/is: “The Khan and the Slave Girl" (1898). 507 bust of Pushkin (1902).
Monument to the writer Gleb Uspenskiy (1904). Monument to Professor South. Vasil’yev in Yur’yev (1906). Design for monument to Peter I (1908).
Monument to Admiral South, Makarov (1914). Monumental bust of A. Radishchev (1918). Bust of Mendeleyev (1925).
Bust of Stalin (1928). Statue “The Sentry” (1933). Design for monument to Kirov (1934).
Group sculpture “Kirov and Graftio” (1945). Group sculpture "Revenge Our People's Sufferings” (1942). Designs for monument toTrct’yakov (1945) and Repin (1946), et cetera
Some of his works are on display in the Tret’yakov Gallery and the Russian Museum.