1939
oil on canvas
200 х 300

Art historian I.E. Grabar commented that the artist Svarog characteristically showed “a special love for the present day, a vigilance for its manifestations, facts and people. During the course of his entire life he never missed any event of consequence; he reacted to events immediately, with lightning speed by what he painted, which reflected his personal attitude to what transpired, the attitude of his nation and of the times.” Despite the descriptive name of the work, it does not reflect the actual content. The meeting between the children and the country’s leaders – I.V. Stalin, K.E. Voroshilov, M.I. Kalinin, V.M. Molotov and M.M. Kaganovich – was an event that could occur in reality, but in a painting it takes on the features of a myth. A glow is radiated not only by the faces and the figures, but even by the landscape, the sky, everything around. What occurred has, as it were, been passed through the filter of a dream about the unity of government and people.