“Our project is more likely not about the“ feat of the people ”or the“ country of the winner ”, but about the fate of man. The general can only be truly felt through the particular. Through personal stories. And there is nothing more personal than writing, ”said the author of the idea, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of RT Kirill Karnovich-Valois.
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Darkening, or blackout, was used after sunset to hide ground targets from enemy fire. In cities and areas subject to air raids, windows and openings were curtained with dense materials, and during an air raid alarm, the lights went out everywhere. ⠀ 🎨Illustrations: 1 - Maria Timoshenko; 2 - Anastasia Kazachkova; 3 - Nauel Benquot. ⠀ ⠀ 📚Quotes: 1 - “Letters from the Front” / Comp. T.A. Vasilevskaya, etc .; 2, 3 - “Save my letters ...” / Comp. I. Altman, other
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#Letters of Victory tell about daily life in the war, about what Soviet soldiers saw while walking along the territories liberated from fascist occupation, and what they met when crossing the border with Europe. From the house, the soldiers were told what happened to the families during the evacuation or occupation, how they lived and worked in the rear, the over-task of which was expressed by the slogan “Everything for the front!”
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The postman’s parish houses waited with excitement. What will he bring this time? The long-awaited news from the front or the "funeral", as the people called the official notification of the death of a soldier? The last letter of the pilot Andrei Morozov, who wrote these lines in July 1942 during the battles for the Kuban: ⠀ ⠀ 📝 “My dear Igor and Galochka! When you read this letter, the guns will die out for a long time, the lead fire will cease. In the fields where the battles were fought, bread loomed, gardens, vineyards bloomed, cities grew. If I am gone, know, my dear children, that my father died for our happy life. You won’t have to blush for me. Your mother, my fighting friends will tell you about my hard and honest life ... "⠀ ⠀ 🎨Illustrations: 1 - Peter Banks; 2 - Alla Dimareva; 3 - Irina Uladaeva. ⠀ ⠀ 📚Quotes: 1, 2, 3 - “Letters from the Front” / Comp. T.A. Vasilevskaya, other
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Most of the letters were handed over to the project by Tatyana Vasilevskaya, who, since 2014, has published four volumes with correspondence from the Second World War in her publishing house Book. These testimonies of living history came from personal archives and museums, from families and local historians, from Russia and from abroad.
“Front-line letters are a unique sincere historical document of the Great Patriotic War. Addressed to loved ones, children, mothers, censored and devoid of false arrogance, these laconic lines create such a magnificent image of a soldier, people. In my opinion, no scientific treatises are able to answer the question to the same extent why we won this terrible war in the history of mankind, ”said Tatyana Vasilevskaya.
Young artists from the RANEPA School of Design, as well as international graphic artists Mikhail Sorkin and Peter Bankov, were invited to work on the visual part of the projects. Lines of letters, interspersed with their illustrations, are arranged in a kind of "Infinite Letter" in the story on Instagram. A common continuous musical theme written by composer Maxim Makarychev (Sirotkin, On-The-Go) completes the image of a letter addressed to us from the past.
“The illustrations of young designers and the story format are an emotional bridge to our peaceful today from the terrible times of the war, in which, despite all the horrors, people also loved, worried, dreamed, believed. “Infinite Letter” is a generational link that our team will try to recreate with narrative and visual means - with the hope that current young and future generations will understand why this should never be repeated, ”said Kirill Karnovich-Valois.
For students of the RANEPA School of Design, the project #Letters of the Victory became not only a professional, but also a deeply human experience, said Sergey Serov, professor of the RANEPA and Ph.D.
“Creative pedagogy, cultivated at the RANEPA School of Design, requires students to develop not only design thinking, but also design feeling, take each project to heart, let it pass not only through your mind, but also through your soul. This is exactly what happened in the project # Letters of Victory, in which it turned out to be extremely important to own experience, the personal inclusion of authors in the topic. Participation in the project became significant for students not only professional, but also human experience, deeply affecting their emotions, feelings of empathy and compassion. ”
The illustrations are made in completely different styles and techniques: from watercolors to applications, from scratching to collages, from deep psychologism to a naive manner. The works reflect not only personal experiences, but also personal stories.
“It was as if I was living the story of my grandmother, who remained at the age of two without a father and did not remember him. As a child, she wrote letters to her father nowhere, ”said Maria Afonchikova, a project participant.
“When thinking about war, a storm of emotions always prevails. Most of them are colored with horror and sorrow, another part is faith and love. A piece, but of such incredible strength that it helped in its time to cope with evil. And now, while working on illustrations, my mind was torn apart from the realization of losses, and my heart was filled with love, with which these letters were written to relatives and friends, ”adds another participant Ksenia Posternyak.
The Victory # Pages project launched by RT on January 13 in honor of the approaching 75th anniversary of the end of World War II will last until May 9, 2020. Join us on YouTube, Facebook, VK and Twitter and follow the “Endless Letter” on Instagram.