Колхозница

1918

Marriage to Aleksey Zamkov

Mukhina married Aleksey Zamkov, who became a professor of medicine and is considered one of the prototypes of Professor Preobrazhensky in Mikhail Bulgakov's “Heart of a Dog”.

1918

Design for a monument to N. I. Novikov

Under Lenin's plan of monumental propaganda Mukhina designed a monument to the educator Nikolay Novikov; Narkompros approved it, but the clay model cracked from the cold in an unheated studio and the monument was never built.

1920s

From Cubism to Socialist Realism

In the 1920s Mukhina became one of the most prominent Soviet sculptors: she was still producing Cubist sculpture as late as 1922, but went on to become a leading figure of Socialist Realism, both in style and in ideology.

1925

A Grand Prix in Paris for a clothing collection

With the fashion designer Nadezhda Lamanova, Mukhina won the Grand Prix at an exhibition in Paris for a collection of elegant women's clothing made of cheap coarse fabrics — cloth, calico, canvas and flannel; the dresses were decorated with her invented “cockerel pattern”.

1926–1927

Employed by: Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry

1926–1930

Employed by: Vkhutemas