Находка имени Сергея Бигоса в базе данных участников Белого движения, созданной историком С.В.Волковым, проливает свет на неизвестные доселе страницы жизни художника.

Alexander Raihin. SERGEI BIGOS. "ON SPECIAL RECORD"

Discovery of the name of Sergei Bigos in the database of participants of the White movement, created by historian S.V.Volkov, illustrates hitherto unknown pages of the artist’s life.

Aleksandr Raikhin. STEP AWAY FROM THE GULAG

Discusses the second part of the two-volume book “To the Memory of Fallen Fighters for the Revolution” (the struggle of Latvians against the tsarist regime), published in 1936 at Moscow, and the fate of its authors. Ayear later, the Latvian publishing house “Prometheus”, which released it, fell victim to Stalinist repressions. Writers and other members of the editorial team were shot. The illustrator — P.Ia.Pavlinov, the famous Moscow artist — escaped arrest by chance. This episode is a hidden page of the artist’s life and Russian art in general.