Заседание III Коминтерна

1924

The Comintern Congress painting at the AKhRR exhibition

At the Association’s exhibition in Moscow he shows a vast canvas with hundreds of real historical figures, “The Ceremonial Opening of the Second Comintern Congress in the Uritsky Palace in Leningrad”. Repin later called Brodsky “the Raphael of our time” for this work.

1924

Joins AKhRR and heads its Leningrad branch

He joins the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (renamed the Association of Artists of the Revolution in 1928) and is then appointed head of its Leningrad branch.

1924–1928

Criticism from the “left” camp

AKhRR, and Brodsky as its most prominent representative, come under criticism from B. I. Arvatov, N. M. Tarabukin, N. N. Punin and others for being “bourgeois”, “backward” and “reactionary”.

1925

Moves into the Golenishchev-Kutuzov house

From 1925 until the end of his life he lives in the Golenishchev-Kutuzov house at 3 Lassalle Square (now Arts Square). His memorial apartment-museum is there today.

17 February 1926

Chukovsky visits Brodsky’s home

Korney Chukovsky, who has come for Brodsky’s recollections of Repin, writes in his diary that, by his observation, assistants make copies of a painting of the shooting of communists in Baku for clubs and village councils, and that Brodsky lightly touches them up and signs them. He also notes a collection of Vrubel, Malyavin and Yury Repin, and many Repin relics.