Ivan Alekseevich Vladimirov led two lives. In public, he painted propaganda pictures, becoming a master of socialist realism. In private, he painted harrowing scenes of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, achieving true realism. Scores of his sketchbooks and canvases are in the Hoover Archives. Here archivist Elena S. Danielson describes Vladimirov's life and work.

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