Xenophon
Nikolayevich Pshennikov

. Honored. worker of arts of Yakutia. Nar. the artist Resp. Of Sakha (Yakutia). Graduated from the Yakut art. Uch-school. Participant of exhibitions: resp. portray. the art of the Yakut ASSR (Moscow, 1963), region. "Soviet far East" (Khabarovsk, 1964; Vladivostok, 1967, 1974, 1985; Ulan-Ude, 1969; Chita, 1980; Yakutsk, 1990), "far East" (Khabarovsk, 1997), prod. artists ed. resp. RSFSR (Moscow, 1971), "Soviet Russia" (1967, 1975, 1992), portray art and Nar. creativity (Moscow, 1957), "Sculpture of small forms" (Moscow, 1977), including the ordained. The 60th anniversary of the Union of artists of the Republic. Of Sakha (Yakutia) (Yakutsk, 2001), internat. the Congress of the Union of artists of the Republic. Of Sakha (Yakutia) (Yakutsk, 2002). Solo exhibition.

The work of P. – in the museums of Moscow, NAT. hood. the Museum REP. Of Sakha (Yakutia), the Directorate of exhibitions of the photography. Fund of the Russian Federation, State. Museum and exhibition center ROSIZO, in private collections in Russia and abroad.

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People's artist of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) belongs to the pleiad of the first professional sculptors Yakutia. During the war he served in Dauria 67 infantry regiment. Awarded the order of Patriotic war, 2 nd degree, and many medals. In 1955 he graduated from the sculpture Department of the Yakutsk art school (class of J. J. Mellum)..Pshennikov Xenophon in his work follows the traditions of realistic art and tends to genre scenes, plot, narrative. Working stone, ceramics, metal. The thematic range of his works includes historical events, everyday work, daily life, portraits of his contemporaries ("Portrait of a milkmaid", 1962, marbles; "Portrait of Hero of the Soviet Union the sniper F. M. Okhlopkova", 1970, granite; "a portrait of the Hero of Soviet Union, sniper I. N. Kul'bertinova", 1977, bronze; "Portrait of E. S. Lukin", 1980, bronze; "portrait of a participant of the great Patriotic war Alexandrov M. L.", 1985, wood; "portrait of a participant of the great Patriotic war, I. P. Kanaeva", 1986, artificial stone).

The artist has successfully implemented creative ideas in monumental sculpture: monuments to Vladimir G. Korolenko in the village of Amga (1958), Peter Alekseev in the settlement Ust-Tatta (1972), F. E. Dzerzhinsky in Yakutsk (1985), the soldiers of the civil war and WWII in the village borogontsy (1965), the Komsomol Chococoa in the city of Vilyuisk (1965).