Alexander
Alexandrovich Leonov

Alexander Leonov was born in Ivanovo-Voznesenske 1913. The desire to paint him started early and the permit Subcomodule he goes to study in Moscow izotehnikum 1905. In the years 1930-34 he studied at the Moscow Izotehnikum 1905 from a great artist Nikolai Petrovich Krymov, which is always remembered with deep gratitude.

In the years 1934-39 Alexander Leonov was arrested and exiled to Solovki, where he became acquainted with the great Russian philosopher Pavel Aleksandrovich Florensky.


In 1941-1946-m Alexander — the great Patriotic war, as the former is repressed, first in "the penal battalion", then in the army building. For participation in military operations in the Staraya Russa, in the North Caucasus, for the liberation from the Nazis of Kiev, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, was awarded the medal "50 years Armed forces of USSR", "40 years of Victory in the great Patriotic war" and "the order of the Patriotic War II degree".

After the victory of the active artistic life of A. Leonov Ivanov lasted only five years. In 1951, according to the old charges, he was again convicted and exiled to Siberia.

Only "thaw" for 60 years has given the opportunity to breathe fresh air. "The restoration of Leninist norms" meant for artists restoring the broken ties of time." But it seems that compared to some of the names spilled out in recent years on the surface of the artistic life, the name of the Ivanovo talented artist Alexander Leonov was pushed into the far and dark corner.