Height: 17.5x8cm./6.8×3.1inch.
Weight: 485gr./17.1oz.
Year: 1976
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Metal bust of Tchaikovsky made in the Soviet Union. And the back there is a date (1976) and the name of the artist: Sychev.
Vladimir Sychev (1917-1995) showed from an early age interest in art. In 1940, after the Odessa Art School, Sychev moved to Leningrad, where he entered the All-Russian Academy of Arts.
In 1941, after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, he took part in defense works, and was a fighter of the Moscow Military District. In 1960-1980’s Vladimir Sychev worked in monumental sculpture. For several decades he created over 300 works in bronze, granite and marble. Memorial ensembles, compositions, monuments, authored by Vladimir Sychev, decorate many cities of the former USSR. Being one of the most notable practitioners of Soviet monumental sculpture, Vladimir Sychev created a large number of busts of state and party leaders, military leaders, scientists, culture and art.