Education
Born in the village of Staro Ramushevo in Novgorod province, into a blacksmith"s family, Tomsky studied in Leningrad. In 1927, graduated from the Arts and Crafts College.
Born in the village of Staro Ramushevo in Novgorod province, into a blacksmith"s family, Tomsky studied in Leningrad. In 1927, graduated from the Arts and Crafts College.
Thereafter his career developed in an official direction. He would be eventually tasked to re-design Lenin"s own sarcophagus, produce Stalin"s bust at Stalin"s grave, and produce at least five major statues of Lenin throughout the Soviet Union. His distinctive red-granite Lenin stood in the Leninplatz of East Berlin from 1970 to 1992.
He taught at MGAHIS (1948-1982), as Professor and as Rector of the Academy (1964-1970).
Tomsky became a full member of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Arts (1949, and president from 1968 to 1983), member of the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic, the Hero of Socialist Labor (1970), five Stalin Prize laureate (1941, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952), the winner of the Lenin Prize (1972) and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize (1979), holder of three Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Karl Marx (German Democratic Republic).
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Artists.