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WWII German Soldiers Mementos of his time serving on the Siegfried Line. photograph, West wall Medal, Tunic Ribbon, and early Marksman lanyard shield. The many pill boxes often had sharp shooters manning them, UK P&P Group 2 (£20+VAT for the first lot and £4+VAT for subsequent lots)
Alakbar Rzaquliyev (1903 - 1974) Alakbar was born in Baku, into the large family of a small businessman-shopkeeper. Although there were no artists in his family, Rezaguiliyev showed artistic talent at an early age. He studied at Moscow Technical Art College from 1925 to 1928. After graduation, he returned to Baku. Years in Exile. Alakbar was among the first to be arrested in what would later be termed as Stalin's Repression, in which 70,000 Azerbaijanis were executed or exiled along with hundreds of thousands of other citizens throughout the USSR. His friend was accused of advocating "pan-Turkish ideas," and Alakbar was deemed guilty by mere association. When Alakbar was thrown into prison, he didn't even know what he was being accused of or why. Altogether, Alakbar spent more than 23 years of his life in exile. He was sentenced to six years. On November 3, 1937, again Alakbar was arrested. He told his fellow artist Rasim Babayev how it happened; "One day I was walking down Komsomolskaya Street when I ran into Ruhulia Akhundov (one of the Bolsheviks who helped establish the Soviet system in Azebaijan). "Ruhulia looked annoyed at seeing me and remarked rudely; "Hey, you dumb guy, are you back here again?" And with those words, I was sent directly back to prison" - this time, to Siberia and later on to Solovki, an island in the Arctic where there are monasteries. Alakbar would go on to do a series of paintings depicting the isolation of those years there. After Exile. After Stalin died in 1953, tens of thousands of prisoners were released from prison. Alakbar, too, was among those who eventually were able to return to Azerbaijan. The exile greatly affected his personality. He became very serious and morally broken. It even affected his creative activity. He very seldom used colors after returning home, The harsh experiences of imprisonment that he had suffered for more than two decades, after all, had been his fate merely through association and not based on any crime that he had ever committed himself. Alakbar Rzaquliyev (1903 - 1974), by and after, from the series of Fisherman of Azerbaijan, 1962, various sizes; another, Komsomel Member, 1968 (5)

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