Sergei Mercurov
Born 1881 in Armenian city of Alexandropol.
1902 began to work for Swiss sculptor, Adolf Meyer - entered Munich Academy of Arts.
1905-7 studied in Paris -- then moved to Russia -- carving granite monuments to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Meets with Lenin in 1917 and begins a program of monumental sculpture propoganda -- later making the authoritative images of the dead leader. Spends rest of his life in Ismailov.
Delegate of Moscow Soviet, and assisted at the Pushkin museum in Moskow.
Died 1952.
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