Yefim Deshalyt – The Palace Square

The immense Palace Square in St. Petersburg cannot be captured with a glance, it simply does not fit into the eyes.
Yet the artist Yefim Deshalyt managed to do this in a 20×35 cm format while maintaining all sizes and perspectives, everything is here, all the architectural symbols of the Empire of the Russian Tsars: the Winter Palace, now the Hermitage Museum, the Alexandrian Pillar and the Golden Spire of the Admiralty.
It succeeded thanks to the professional specialization of the artist, since Yefim Deshalyt (1921-1996) was the creator of historical diorama-panoramic projects.
In the mid-50s the artist worked on the creation of the revolutionary diorama ‘Storming of the Winter Palace, 1917’ it was a big honorable state order, but this etude he made only for himself.
This oil etude (painted in 1957) is framed as a precious artifact in a box-shaped frame and protected by the finest museum glass.