Sculpture “L. N. Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana”

Technique: Porcelain.
Size: Height 43 cm.

Sculpture “L. N. Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana”. USSR, Leningrad Porcelain Factory (LFZ), author N. M. Torich-Trapezdnikov. 1960s. Glazed porcelain. Height 43 cm. No marks. Leonid Mikhailovich Torich-Trapeznikov (1913–1997) – Soviet sculptor and graphic artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (LSSKh). In 1930-1933 he studied at the M. Vrubel Omsk Art and Industry Technical School. In 1934 he came to Leningrad, joined RABIS and at the same time entered the preparatory courses at the Academy of Arts. In 1937 he was admitted to the Sculpture Faculty of IZhSA. During the war he worked at the TASS Windows as a poster artist. In 1942 he was evacuated to Samarkand. He graduated from IZhSA in 1946 in the studio of A. T. Matveev. Diploma work – “Woman Armourer”. Works: monument to M. Yu. Lermontov in Gelendzhik (1954), to A. Matrosov in the city of Chasiv Yar (1955) and in Leningrad; to V. I. Lenin in Tbilisi, monument to the Red Guards at Kuvannik station, Orenburg Oblast, high relief “Soviet Sport” on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, bldg. 37-6, St. Petersburg; portraits of A. S. Pushkin, M. Yu. Lermontov, L. N. Tolstoy, M. Gorky, P. I. Tchaikovsky; decorative figures and a fountain at the “Chaika” sanatorium in Sochi (together with P. Ya. Yakimovich, 1955). He was an honorary citizen of the city of Novoshakhtinsk for creating the sculptural design of the central square.