01 Work, The Art of War, Irina Baldina's Natasha Kachuevskaya - Red Army heroine of the Battle of Stalingrad, with footnotes

Irina Baldina

Natasha Kachuevskaya - Red Army heroine of the Battle of Stalingrad (1984)

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On November 19, 1942, Soviet troops launched a counteroffensive in the Stalingrad area, and the next day, November 20, 1942, during the counteroffensive of the 28th Army south of the village of Khulkhut, already in the rear of the advancing Soviet troops, a group of German soldiers leaving the encirclement stumbled across a dugout where hid the wounded Red Army soldiers.

Taking weapons from the wounded, Natalya Kachuevskaya attacked the enemy from the flank dragging them into the steppe from the dugout with the wounded. With her feat, Natalya Kachuevskaya saved the lives of twenty wounded soldiers. In battle, she killed several German soldiers, and when the enemies surrounded her, she blew herself up with the last grenade along with the approaching fascists, mortally wounding herself.

The painting "Heroine of Stalingrad Battle" was made in 1984 by her classmate Irina Baldina. More on Natalya Kachuevskaya

Irina Mikhailovna Baldina (May 18, 1922 – January 15, 2009) was a Soviet Russian painter who lived and worked in Leningrad, was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of the Russian Federation), and is regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting.

Irina was born May 18, 1922, in Moscow. In 1940-1941 she studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. In 1945, after the Great Patriotic war, Baldin was admitted to the Department of Painting of the Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad.

In 1947 she married Alexei Eriomin (1919–1998), in the future well-known Russian painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In 1948 she had a daughter, Natalia, who later also graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad and became a painter.

Since 1951 Baldina was a permanent exhibitor of the Leningrad Art exhibitions, where she showed her work along with works by the leading masters of fine arts of Leningrad. She worked mostly as a painter in genre of portrait, landscape, and still life. In 1957 she was admitted in the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.

Irina Mikhailovna Baldina died on January 15, 2009, in Saint Petersburg at the eighty-seventh year of life. Paintings by Irina Baldina reside in Art museums and private collections in the Russia, France, Finland, the United States, Japan, Germany, England, and other countries. More on Irina Mikhailovna Baldina

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