Events
1935 – The Moscow
Metro is opened to public.
1988 – Soviet
war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of
fighting, the Red
Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan
.
Births
1848 – Viktor
Vasnetsov, Russian painter
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered the co-founder of Russian
folklorist and romantic modernist painting and
a key figure in the revivalist movement.
A minor planet 3586 Vasnetsov, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978 is named after Viktor Vasnetsov and Apollinary Vasnetsov.In the film Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Vasnetsov's painting of Ivan the Terrible is anachronistically presented as if it already existed in that Tsar's lifetime, and as being sent by Ivan to England when he offers to marry Queen Elizabeth I.
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