By Natalia Bordilovskaya: A large-scale exhibition dedicated to the 145th birth anniversary of world-famous artist Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya has opened at the National Art Museum. Featuring about fifty works by the native of Belarus’ Mogilev region, the exhibition is aimed at representing Byalynitsky-Birulya as the founder of the memorial landscape genre - the artist painted a series of landscapes associated with such well-known people as Lenin, Stalin, Pushkin, Tchaikovsky and Tolstoi.
Belarus’ main museum is home to the largest collection of Birulya’s works, comprising of over 650 paintings. The current exhibition is featuring a landscape painting of the city of Gori - Joseph Stalin's homeland - which has not been exhibited for over 70 years and restored specially for the artist’s anniversary, as well as two portraits of the artist by his students and friends.












