Golden Boy (Anikushin)
Golden Boy is a sculpture created by Mikhail Anikushin, a celebrated Soviet sculptor honored with the titles People's Artist of the USSR and recipient of both the Lenin Prize and I. E. Repin State Prizes of the RSFSR. The work was conceived as part of the larger Memorial to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, dedicated to those who endured the siege of the city during World War II. The memorial itself was unveiled in 1975 in Leningrad and was designed by architects Valentin Kamensky and Sergei Speransky. The model for the sculpture was Anikushin's own grandson, Adrian Anikushin.
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