Laureate Of The Stalin Prize.

[Tal Inbar]

I recently found list of composers and performers, awarded with the Stalin prize. You can learn about Stalin's taste in music from this list:

1941
Dunaevsky: Music from the films "Circus" and "Volga-Volga"
Gadzhibekov: "Ker oghlu", opera
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto
Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 21
Shaporin: "On the Field of Kulikovo", cantata
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet

1942
Khrennikov: Music to the film "The Swineherd and the Shepherd"
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7

1943
Ashrafi: Symphony No. 1 "Heroic"
Khachaturian: Gayaneh Ballet
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7
Shebalin: String Quartet No. 5


1944
No Prizes

1945
No Prizes.

1946
Feinberg: Piano Concerto No. 2
Gliere: Concerto for voice and orchestra
Kabalevsky: String Quartet No. 2
Karaev and Gajiev: "The Motherland", opera
Khachaturian: Symphony No. 2
Khrennikov: "At 6 p.m. after the War", music from the film
Liatoshinsky: Ukrainian Quintet
Muradeli: Symphony No. 2
Miaskovsky: String Quartet No. 9 - Cello Concerto
Popov: Symphony No. 2
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 - Piano Sonata No. 8 - Cinderella Ballet
Shaporin: "Story of the Battle for the Russian Land"
Shtogarenko: "My Ukraine", symphony
Sviridov: Piano Trio

1947
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano
Shebalin: "Moscow", cantata
Vasilenko: Mirandoline Suite

1948
Asafiev: Monograph on Glinka
Gliere: String Quartet No. 4
Kara Karayev: Leyli and Majnum, symphonic poem

1949
Amirov: Symphonic Mughams
Arutiunian: "The Motherland", cantata
Kabalevsky: Violin Concerto

1950
Gliere: "The Bronze Horseman"
Miaskovsky: Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano
Shostakovich: "Song of the Forest" - "The Fall of Berlin" for chorus

1951
Babadzhanian: "Heroic Ballad"
Dunaevsky: Music to the film "The Kuban' Cossacks"
Galynin: "Epic Poem"
Kabalevsky: "Taras's Family", opera
Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 27 - String Quartet No. 13
Prokoviev: "On Guard for Peace", oratorio
Taktakishvili: Symphony No. 1

1952
Ashrafi: Stalin Prize (nothing specific)
Belyi: Stalin Prize (nothing specific)
Shaporin: Romances for Voice and Piano
Shostakovich: Ten Poems for Chorus opus 88
Shtogarenko: "In Memory of Lesya Ukrainka", symphonic suite
Taktakishvili: Piano Concerto no 1


Additional information on Soviet composers is at:

http://ovar.myweb.nl/index.htm

[Art]

Interesting, wish I had them all on a CD..

[d-riemer]

Ts is the Stalin Prize Medal 1st Class awarded in 1948 to J.I. Nikoladze of Georgia for a 1947 sculpture of Lenin. The artist died in 1951, Stalin in 1953. Therefore, this medal did not get exchanged for the State Prize and is one of the few that have survived.

Backside of Stalin Prize medal. No serial number but award date.

[Sergey Tamayev]

Very nice. I own State Prizes in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd classes all of which were 1960s replacements for Stalin Prizes. This is a group of awards often overlooked by most collectors.

[Tal Inbar]

I second that - very nice medal/badge and I will be happy to have it...Most deales don't have those!

[d-riemer]

The Document for the Stalin Prize medal with fairly high numbers. Is there a listing of Stalin Prize recipients for the different years?

[Tal Inbar]

How much money was this prize meant? I remember reading somewere that Lenin prize was 25,000 Rubles. What can you tell?

Hand signed by Stalin. For the reach only...It is from very well known seller:

The certificate has 8 pages showing embossed Soviet state emblem of pre-1948 type - with 11 republics in the Soviet Union. Stalin's portrait is featured on the fourth page, opposite the text page listing each of the 12 recipients of that year's Stalin Prize, 3rd cl. for this particular achievement.

Citation from the Sovnarkom (Council of People's Commissars) is followed by the printed line saying that this particular diploma was issued to Pavel Fyodorov. Same page (page 6) has signatures of Joseph Stalin, the Chairman of Sovnarkom, and Chadaev, Chief Supervisor for the Affairs of Sovnarkom. Stalin's autograph is very clear, in the middle of the page, to the right of the Sovnarkom stamp.

Issued to a scientist for developing new technology that allowed to reduce expenditure of non-ferrous metals in weapon production. The award came at critical time when much of European part of the Soviet Union was still under German occupation and the output of Soviet metallurgy was much reduced compared to pre-war years. Nineteen forty three was probably the last year when Stalin hand-signed Stalin Prize documents - all the later ones that we had seen had his rubber-stamped facsimile signature.

[new world]

Tal,

The document is absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As is the prize of $2950.

Do you know how many of these hand signed docs were awarded?

[scook17]

Given the Stalin Prize was awarded from 1940 - 1952, I can't imagine there were that many of the documents issued. This is one of 13 awards that year. Given Tal says he stopped signing this is 1943 (how do you know this Tal?), and if we assume half the number of awards per class, i.e. 6 second and 3 firsts, this would mean there was 22 per year. Three years means there is probably around 66 documents like this in existence, at a guess.

It's a shame the owner of this document isn't a member of the forum. I've bought some stuff from this guy in the past and always found it to be of good quality and not faked. Art, perhaps you should ask him to join the forum, as we could do with some more expert opinions on some of these more difficult questions.

Kind Regards,
Shane Cook.

[Tal Inbar]

Shane,

The information came from te site. Why don't you write him and invite him to the forum? It is not just the Stavka who invite new members...

Tal

PS

Could you post in the proper place a good and detailed scan of your peace medal?