On September 30, a postage stamp dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of painter Leonard Turzhansky was put into postal circulation

Leonard Turzhansky (1875–1945) was a Russian and Soviet impressionist painter.

Leonard Turzhansky was born on September 30 (October 12) of 1875 in Ekaterinburg. Since his childhood, he was involved with arts and chose a career as a professional artist. In the first half of the 1890s, he took private lessons from N. Plyusnin. He graduated from the Ekaterinburg Real School. He studied at the Central School of Technical Drawing in St. Petersburg (1895), the Stroganov School of Arts (1896–1897), and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1898–1909). His teachers included such famous artists as A. Stepanov, V. Serov and K. Korovin. After the October Revolution, he worked in the Urals. From 1919, L. Turzhansky gave classes at the Ekaterinburg School of Arts and Industry. Of the early works by L. Turzhansky, the portrait of I. Bunin gained currency. Before the revolution, he fulfilled icon painting orders, including those of the Kozhevnikov's icon painting workshop. However, afterwards he began to paint exclusively landscapes. Many of his landscapes have animalistic tropes, with an accent on domestic animals such as horses, cows, and goats. Many of his works were inspired by the nature of the Ural Mountains; he worked especially hard in the village of Maly Istok near Ekaterinburg.

L. Turzhansky exhibited his paintings at exhibitions of itinerant artists and became a member of the Union of Russian Artists since 1912. The creative work of L. Turzhansky was closely linked with the traditions of the 19th-century Russian art, but he was one of the first artists in Russia to apply the artistic method of impressionism. In 1910, he built a wooden house in Maly Istok according to his own design. Since 1910, throughout his life, the artist came here in early spring and worked here in the open air until late autumn. It was in Maly Istok that L. Turzhansky painted his best works: Towards Evening, Spring, Early Spring, Evening in Spring, and others.

The postage stamp presents painting Moscow. Samoteka by artist L. Turzhansky (1910-1915, Museum of Russian Impressionism).

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg.


Design Artist: A. Povarikhin.
Face value: 65 rubles.
Stamp size: 50×37 mm, sheet size: 130×217 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 10 (2×5) stamps.
Quantity: 70 thousand stamps (7 thousand sheets).

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