Russian Soviet "peasant" poet, writer, landscape painter, public figure. Chairman of the Association of Traveling Exhibitions; Chairman of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia; Chairman of the Moscow Regional Union of Artists.
Pavel Alexandrovich Vadimov was born in the village of the Ryazan province, in the family of a village priest. On the paternal side, all of Radimov's ancestors were clergymen. He also received a spiritual education, graduating from the Zaraisk Theological School and the Ryazan Seminary. However, Paul did not become a priest. From childhood, little Pavel loved to draw and began to write poetry. In 1905 he went to Moscow to enter Moscow School painting, sculpture and architecture. However, in the end, young Radimov entered a completely different educational institution: Faculty of History and Philology of Kazan University. He graduated from it in 1911, defending his thesis "Homer in the works of Greek artists." Simultaneously with his studies at the Faculty of Philology, he took painting lessons from N. I. Feshin. Such a versatile education allowed the young man's universal talent to flourish and predetermined his future fate: he soon became known both as a poet and as an artist.
From 1908, he began to seriously engage in painting. In 1912, his first books were published: "Field Psalms", noticed by V. Bryusov, and "Earth Robe". In 1914, a collection of poems by Radimov was published, written in a rare size - hexameter - "Polyada". In 1914-1926, the young poet was an employee of the Siberian Life newspaper and the Siberian Student magazine.
In parallel with his literary work, Radimov progressed as a painter. Since 1911, he began to exhibit at the Association of Traveling Exhibitions. The debut took place at the 39th exhibition. In 1914, for the painting "The Old Mezzanine" he was accepted as a member of the Association on the recommendations of V. D. Polenov and I. E. Repin. At the same time, the poet, artist, journalist Pavel Radimov taught art history at the Kazan Art School.
In 1917, in Kazan, he became head of the department of arts of the People's Commissariat for Education of Tatarstan. Having accepted the revolution, he began to engage in social activities in the young state. He continued to write poetry and paint. In 1918 he became the last chairman of the Association of the Wanderers.
In 1921, Pavel Radimov presented his paintings for the first time in Moscow. In 1922, Radimov, with fellow artists Grigoriev and Naumov, actively took up the creation of the AHRR (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia), becoming the first chairman of the new union. During these years, being in the center artistic life, he became close friends with the artists A. E. Arkhipov, S. V. Malyutin, the sculptor S. T. Konenkov, the poets V. Ya. Bryusov, S. A. Yesenin, V. V. Mayakovsky and others. Artist in different time participated in many foreign exhibitions - in Venice, London, Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Stockholm, New York.
The first post-revolutionary collection of poems "The Village" by Radimov the poet was published in 1922. As a writer, he was elected chairman of the All-Russian Union of Poets. During these years, P. A. Radimov was friends with Lunacharsky, Voroshilov, Budyonny, and worked in the Kremlin.
In 1926, Radimov traveled to Finland, to Repin's dacha (Penates). There he created a portrait of an outstanding Russian painter, which is currently in the Tretyakov Gallery. In "Penates" P. A. Radimov wrote the poem "The Sea", dedicated to the great artist.
Like other "peasant" poets, Radimov suffered from the campaign against "kulak" poetry. After that, he began to work in a different genre, switching to landscape and descriptive lyrics with elements of socialist props. Most of the time he was engaged in painting, traveled a lot around the country, describing his impressions in poetry and on canvas.
In 1928, the AHRR exhibition "10 Years of the Red Army" was held, one of the organizers of which was Pavel Radimov. In subsequent years, he worked hard and was engaged in social activities. Organized the Moscow Regional Union of Artists, was elected its first chairman. He arranged dozens of exhibitions of his works throughout the country, wrote memoirs and published books of his poems. The last personal exhibition of the artist was held in Moscow in 1962 in honor of the 75th anniversary of the painter.
In the 1930s he settled in Khotkovo, near Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk). He painted, wrote, composed a lot. In 1932 he moved to Novo-Abramtsevo, a settlement of Soviet artists founded by I. E. Grabar near the Abramtsevo estate.
In 1957, he opened a folk exhibition in Abramtsevo "for a free and free visit to all who love art", which presented the works of Soviet artists.
He died in 1967 at his home in Khotkovo, and was buried at the Khotkovo cemetery in the Sergiev Posad region. He was reburied at the Moscow Vvedensky cemetery.
A family
Sergey Alexandrovich Radimov - brother, artist
Tatyana Pavlovna Radimova (1916-2000) - daughter, artist. Painter. Honored Worker of Culture of Russia, member of the Moscow Union of Artists. She studied with her father at the Moscow State Art Institute. V. I. Surikov until 1941. She painted landscapes and poetry. Author of a book about his father.
Pavel Sergeevich Radimov - great-grandson
Maria Pavlovna Radimova (b.1915) - daughter of Radimov and artist Maria Medvedeva (daughter of artist Grigory Medvedev)
Sergei Pavlovich Radimov - son, artist
Sergei Sergeevich Radimov - grandson, artist
Russian Soviet "peasant poet" and artist, the last chairman of the Association of the Wanderers and the first chairman of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AHRR) in 1922, 1927-1932, and the last chairman of the VSP (All-Russian Union of Poets) - an organization that existed until 1929.
Born in a village in the Ryazan province, in the family of a village priest, in the hut of the 90-year-old grandfather of Father Nikanor. Both great-grandfathers, and the artist's father and grandfather were priests or rural deacons. Together with his two brothers, he received a spiritual education - from the age of 9 at the Zaraisk Theological School and the Ryazan Seminary.
About the years of apprenticeship spent in this institution, he recalled: “Zaraisk! He took me there on a winter road, twenty-five miles away, a gray gelding ... In the summer, on a wide cart, on a tough sackcloth that covered sacks of rye, I came to an inn ... where I drank tea with raisin sieve. Then, with a bag and a chest containing linen, woolen stockings and my mother's donuts, my father accompanied me to the Kremlin, to the stone two-story building of the school. There I had to live eight months a year and receive knowledge.
Refusing to accept the dignity, in the revolutionary year of 1905 he went to Moscow without a passport, where he decided to enter the Moscow School of Sculpture and Architecture. Takes lessons in Bolshakov's studio. But in the end, in 1906, he entered the Faculty of Philology of Kazan University (the capital's universities did not accept seminarians), which he graduated in 1911 with a thesis on Homer ("Homer in the Works of Greek Artists"). At the same time he studied painting, took lessons from N. I. Feshin. Since 1908 he has been acting as an artist.
In 1912, the first book of poems, Field Psalms, was published and noted as promising; Radimov's second book, The Earthly Robe, generally disappointed critics. He became one of the peasant poets, his poems are read along with Yesenin and Klyuev. In 1914, a collection of hexameters called Popiad was published. In 1914-1916. - employee of the newspaper "Siberian Life" and the journal "Siberian Student".
Since 1911, he was accepted as an exhibitor in the Association of the Wanderers (debuting at the 39th exhibition), and in 1914 he became a member on the recommendation of Polenov and Repin for the painting "The Old Mezzanine". He taught art history at the Kazan Art School.
In 1917, in Kazan, he headed the department of arts of the People's Commissariat for Education of Tatarstan. Actively involved in cultural and propaganda work, while continuing to engage in poetry and painting. In 1918 he was elected head of the association of the Wanderers.
In 1921, P. Radimov came to Moscow with an exhibition of his works, and in 1922, together with the artists Grigoriev and Naumov, he took part in the organization of the AHRR. After the revolution, he published a collection of poems "The Village" (1922). He was elected chairman of the All-Russian Union of Poets, worked in the Kremlin, was friends with Lunacharsky, Voroshilov and Budyonny, as well as with Yesenin, his countryman. In 1926, with a delegation of artists, he traveled to Finland to Repin. In Penaty, he creates a portrait of Repin (it is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery).
Over time, Radimov fell under the campaign of "dispossession of kulak poets", after which he "switched to landscape-descriptive lyrics with elements of socialist props (a red flag on the arcs of a cart, etc.)". In subsequent years, he worked mainly in the field of painting. traveled extensively in Soviet Union, wrote poems and paintings about the lands he saw.
Since the 1930s, he settled in Khotkovo, where he painted a lot, and later - in the Novo-Abramtsevsky settlement, where he lived since 1932. In 1957, he opened a folk exhibition in Abramtsevo "for a free and free visit to all who love art."
He died at his home in Khotkovo and was buried at the Khotkovo cemetery in the Sergiev Posad region. Reburied at the Moscow Vvedensky cemetery.
A family
Sergei Pavlovich Radimov - son, artist
Sergey Sergeevich Radimov - grandson, artist
Pavel Sergeevich Radimov - great-grandson
Sergei Alexandrovich Radimov - brother, artist
Tatyana Pavlovna Radimova (1916-2000) - daughter, artist. Painter. Honored Worker of Culture of Russia, member of the Moscow Union of Artists. She studied with her father at the Moscow State Art Institute. V. I. Surikova until 1941. She painted landscapes and poetry. Author of a book about his father.
Maria Pavlovna Radimova (b. 1915) - daughter of Radimov and the artist Maria Medvedeva (daughter of the artist Grigory Medvedev), married to Konstantin Pavlovich, landscape painter.
Radimov Ivan Aleksandrovich - brother of the artist, academician of painting. The article presents his painting from the collection of the museum "Zaraisk Kremlin", called here "Victory Parade". In fact, the picture is called "Belov's Cavalry in Zaraysk"
Painting characteristic
His first paintings, telling about Kazan and the Kazan province, began to appear regularly since 1908 (Outskirts of Kazan, 1908; Cloth Sloboda in Kazan. Winter, 1910; Fish Market in Kazan, 1911; Fire tower in Kazan", 1917; etc.). In the first decades of his work, he mainly depicted huts and "vegetable gardens of silent deaf villages."
He was a member of the Association of the Wanderers and its last chairman - the themes and style of this trend are noticeable in his works. When N. N. Dubovskoy, chairman of the Association of Traveling Exhibitions, died in 1918, Radimov was elected chairman of the Association, and in 1922 achieved the organization of the 47th exhibition of the Wanderers.
In connection with the closure of the 47th exhibition of braces, he made a presentation on the seemingly unpretentious topic "On the reflection of everyday life in art." This report, met with frenzied attacks from the entire "left" front, contributed to the organization of the Soviet Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AHRR). As the catalog of the AHRR exhibition of 1933 says: “In 1922, at the 47th traveling exhibition, he made a report on realistic art, reflecting Soviet life. The report served as the beginning of a large Soviet public art movement, which took shape in the form of the AHRR (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia).” In 1922, Radimov joined the AHRR.
Already in 1922, Radimov, as part of the first small team of Soviet realist artists, went with a sketchbook to factory sketches and painted the foundry. As an artist, he attended party congresses, making sketches for portraits of leaders, created the paintings "Meeting in the Kremlin", "Trotsky's Speech at the Second Congress of the Comintern". He has a workshop in the Kremlin, along with his friend Yevgeny Katsman, secretary of the AHRR, and David Shterenberg. He makes sketches of meetings of congresses, participants in the Third Congress of the Comintern, and many sketches of the old and renovated Kremlin. Contributed to the construction of the House of Artists on Maslovka.
In 1928, at the anniversary exhibition of the 10th anniversary of the Red Army (the 10th exhibition of the AHRR - “10 years of the Red Army”), one of the organizers of which he became, Radimov exhibits a large painting on the historical and revolutionary theme “People in mats” (a barge with revolutionaries - suicide bombers rescued from the White Guard captivity - the famous barge of Kolchak in Sarapul), later exhibited in the central hall of the Soviet pavilion in Venice.
After the "campaign of dispossession of kulak poets" he is engaged in almost one painting. Organizes the Moscow Regional Union of Artists, is elected its first chairman. He is not zealous in the themes of socialist realism introduced by the AHRR, preferring the landscape.
After the revolution, cycles of landscape works by Radimov appeared, dedicated to Bashkiria, Chuvashia, the Mari land, Central Asia and, finally, the central strip of Russia and the Moscow region.
The artist's last personal lifetime exhibition was held in Moscow in 1962 and was dedicated to his 75th birthday. In 2005, the Zolotoy Ples Gallery showed the exhibition Pavel Radimov. The Wanderer and the Poet" in the Fireplace Hall of the House of Journalists (Moscow). In 2007 Kazan hosted a posthumous exhibition dedicated to the 120th anniversary of his birth.
Pavel Alexandrovich Radimov - artist, public figure, whose life and work are connected with the formation of the Soviet visual arts. He was one of the last representatives of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions and one of the founders and first chairman of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AHRR). Radimov entered the history of Soviet art primarily as a master of landscape. Subtle lyrical pictures of Russian nature, as well as views of old cities with monuments of ancient Russian architecture - the main theme of his work.
The future artist was born in 1887 in the village of Khodyaynov, Ryazan province. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father were rural deacons. Pavel Radimov was also predicted a spiritual career. He was sent first to a theological school in Zaraysk, and then to the Ryazan Seminary. In the seminary, Radimov began independent studies in drawing and painting. Already at this time, art became his main hobby. Radimov leaves the seminary and leaves for Moscow, dreaming of entering the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. However, he arrived in the capital late - entry exams already finished at the school. But the visit to Moscow was not in vain. During the year, Radimov takes painting lessons in Bolshakov's private studio. However, in 1906, Radimov entered the Kazan University, the Faculty of History and Philology, after which he taught the history of art and literature at the Kazan Art School. All these years he has not given up painting. A beneficial effect on his development as a professional painter was his acquaintance and creative communication with the artist N. I. Feshin, a graduate of the Academy of Arts.
Radimov's early works are landscape and genre sketches of a small format ("Autumn Bazaar", 1911; "The Village of Kukushkino near Kazan", 1912; "Bashkiria. Near Sterlitamak", 1913). Fragmentation, "randomness" of the composition, generalization in the depiction of figures, large strokes superimposed on the plane of the canvas, like a mosaic, distinguish Radimov's works during this period. Even then, the artist exhibited his works at exhibitions of the Wanderers, and then became a member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions.
In the first years after October revolution Radimov is actively involved in cultural construction. He, together with his comrades, organizes free exhibitions of paintings, in 1919 he became the head of the art department of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Tatar Republic. In the 1920s, Radimov was one of the initiators of the association of artists of the realistic camp, who saw the future of Soviet art in inseparable connection with the life of the people.
In 1922, the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia was created, which included former Wanderers and young Soviet artists. Radimov was the first chairman of the AHRR and a member of the board until the end of the existence of the association. Members of the AHRR set themselves the task of "documenting the great moment of history in its revolutionary impulse." During this period, the artist creates a series of portraits of the heroes of the revolution - M. V. Frunze, S. M. Budyonny, K. E. Voroshilov, A. V. Lunacharsky. Strictness, extreme brevity of figurative interpretation and composition distinguish these portraits, which have become a kind of study for a large canvas on the historical and revolutionary theme "Speech by V. I. Lenin at the IV Congress of the Comintern in 1922" (1927).
In the 1920s, Radimov in his painting turned to the themes of folk holidays, rituals and customs (Khorovod, Bride, Khlebanovna, all 1928). These canvases are characterized by ethnographic accuracy in reproducing the details of everyday life and, at the same time, a free pictorial manner, bright saturated color. They show closeness to the work of the older generation of painters - F. Malyavin, A. Arkhipov.
Radimov traveled a lot. Back in the 1910s, he visited Tatar villages, in Bashkiria, lived among the Mari and Chuvash. He wrote that "it is necessary for an artist to travel - his eye sees more sharply, his mind is clearer, his desire is smarter." In 1934, Radimov made a trip to Turkmenistan. There the painter creates portraits in which psychological characteristic characters is combined with an interest in the detailed transfer of the features of the national costume, jewelry ("Portrait of Yusupova", "Dervish in Khiva", both 1935), as well as landscapes, the juicy colors of which are in tune with the very colors of southern nature ("Khorezm. New Urgench", " Bazaar in Tamauz", "Morning in Firyuza", all 1935). Radimov's canvases also depict ancient Central Asian architecture, majestic and monumental ("Mausoleum Tyurabek Khanym", "Mosque in Anau", both 1934).
The approach was different when creating paintings dedicated to native Russian nature. So, in the landscape "Vorya River" (1935), the artist seeks to convey the subtle states of autumn nature, using subtle combinations of silver-gray, mother-of-pearl tones. The nature of Russia has never been separated from its history for Radimov. Glorious past theme national culture acquired a decisive importance in the artist's work during the years of the Great Patriotic War. It is developed by Radimov in the series "Monuments of Antiquity", in the landscape "Spring in Zagorsk" (1943), in many other canvases representing the architectural monuments of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Zagorsk, Zvenigorod. Zagorsk and its environs inspired the artist until last days his life. Radimov himself wrote: "Since childhood, I have been addicted to monuments national history, and the highest pleasure for me is to go to see a small town in Moscow or a neighboring region ... "
Radimov's work was inextricably linked with Russian realistic art, to which he remained faithful throughout his long creative life.
O. Lystsova
One hundred anniversaries. Art calendar for 1987. Moscow: Soviet artist, 1986.
Pavel Alexandrovich Radimov (1887-1967). Father - a rural priest in the Ryazan province. He graduated from the theological seminary and the Faculty of History and Philology of Kazan University, at the same time he took drawing lessons. In 1912 he participated in the exhibition of artists of the Wanderers with genre paintings on the theme of peasant life; in 1914, on the recommendation of Polenov and Repin, he joined the Association of Wanderers.
He taught art history at the Kazan Art School. Then he made his debut as a poet: in 1912 he published the first poetry collection "Field Psalms", which both N. Gumilyov and V. Bryusov noted as promising. The second book by P. Radimov, The Earthly Robe, published two years later in Kazan, disappointed critics on the whole. “We can conclude that we are dealing with a poet who wished to set aside a small area for himself and not stick his nose out further,” wrote N. Gumilyov, who especially noted the long poem in hexameters “Popiada” (the story of a seminarian traveling with his father to parishes to choose fiancee).
In the future, P. Radimov often exploited the technique he found: everyday pictures of the Russian village, described in solemn "antique" size, gave the effect of an unexpected modern stylization of Hesiod's Works and Days. Later, the poems were collected by him into a single book, published in different volumes in several editions (Kazan, 1922; Revel, 1923; Berlin, 1923; Moscow, 1924 and 1926).
After the revolution, on the side of the victorious government, he got involved in cultural and propaganda work, first in Kazan (headed the department of arts of the People's Commissariat for Education of Tatarstan), then in Moscow. As an artist, he attended party congresses, making sketches for portraits of leaders, created the paintings "Meeting in the Kremlin", "Trotsky's Speech at the Second Congress of the Comintern".
He was friends with Lunacharsky, Voroshilov and Budyonny. He was elected chairman of the All-Russian Union of Poets. In verse, he remained true to himself, telling in hexameters, sonnets and octaves about how a woman takes a steam bath in a bathhouse and how to properly bake pancakes.
P. Kogan wrote in 1926: "The poetry of Radimov is necessary, perhaps the most necessary poetry in our time ... The revolution came up against the problem of the peasant." Soon the “peasant problem” was solved at the state level, and P. Radimov fell under the campaign of “dispossession of kulak poets”, after which he switched to landscape and descriptive lyrics with elements of socialist props (a red flag on the arcs of a cart, etc.).
He published a dozen more books; the final collection "Pillar Road" was published in 1959.
Born in a village in the Ryazan province, in the family of a village priest, in the hut of the 90-year-old grandfather of Father Nikanor. Both great-grandfathers, and the artist's father and grandfather were priests or rural deacons. Together with his two brothers, he received a spiritual education - from the age of 9 at the Zaraisk Theological School and the Ryazan Seminary.
About the years of apprenticeship spent in this institution, he recalled: “Zaraisk! He took me there on a winter road, twenty-five miles away, a gray gelding ... In the summer, on a wide cart, on a tough sackcloth that covered sacks of rye, I came to an inn ... where I drank tea with raisin sieve. Then, with a bag and a chest containing linen, woolen stockings and my mother's donuts, my father accompanied me to the Kremlin, to the stone two-story building of the school. There I had to live eight months a year and receive knowledge.
Refusing to accept the dignity, in the revolutionary year of 1905 he went to Moscow without a passport, where he decided to enter the Moscow School of Sculpture and Architecture. Takes lessons in Bolshakov's studio. But in the end, in 1906, he entered the Faculty of Philology of Kazan University (the capital's universities did not accept seminarians), which he graduated in 1911 with a thesis on Homer ("Homer in the Works of Greek Artists"). At the same time he studied painting, took lessons from N. I. Feshin. Since 1908 he has been acting as an artist.
In 1912, the first book of poems, Field Psalms, was published and noted as promising; Radimov's second book, The Earthly Robe, generally disappointed critics. He became one of the peasant poets, his poems are read along with Yesenin and Klyuev. In 1914, a collection of hexameters called Popiad was published. In 1914-1916. - employee of the newspaper "Siberian Life" and the journal "Siberian Student".
Since 1911, he was accepted as an exhibitor in the Association of the Wanderers (debuting at the 39th exhibition), and in 1914 he became a member on the recommendation of Polenov and Repin for the painting "The Old Mezzanine". He taught art history at the Kazan Art School.
In 1917, in Kazan, he headed the department of arts of the People's Commissariat for Education of Tatarstan. Actively involved in cultural and propaganda work, while continuing to engage in poetry and painting. In 1918 he was elected head of the association of the Wanderers.
In 1921, P. Radimov came to Moscow with an exhibition of his works, and in 1922, together with the artists Grigoriev and Naumov, he took part in the organization of the AHRR. After the revolution, he published a collection of poems "The Village" (1922). He was elected chairman of the All-Russian Union of Poets, worked in the Kremlin, was friends with Lunacharsky, Voroshilov and Budyonny, as well as with Yesenin, his countryman. In 1926, with a delegation of artists, he traveled to Finland to Repin. In Penaty, he creates a portrait of Repin (it is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery).
Over time, Radimov fell under the campaign of "dispossession of kulak poets", after which he "switched to landscape-descriptive lyrics with elements of socialist props (a red flag on the arcs of a cart, etc.)". In subsequent years, he worked mainly in the field of painting. He traveled a lot around the Soviet Union, wrote poems and paintings about the lands he saw.
Since the 1930s, he settled in Khotkovo, where he painted a lot, and later - in the Novo-Abramtsevsky settlement, where he lived since 1932. In 1957, he opened a folk exhibition in Abramtsevo "for a free and free visit to all who love art."
He died at his home in Khotkovo and was buried at the Khotkovo cemetery in the Sergiev Posad region. Reburied at the Moscow Vvedensky cemetery.
A family
Sergei Pavlovich Radimov - son, artist
Sergey Sergeevich Radimov - grandson, artist
Pavel Sergeevich Radimov - great-grandson
Sergei Alexandrovich Radimov - brother, artist
Tatyana Pavlovna Radimova (1916-2000) - daughter, artist. Painter. Honored Worker of Culture of Russia, member of the Moscow Union of Artists. She studied with her father at the Moscow State Art Institute. V. I. Surikova until 1941. She painted landscapes and poetry. Author of a book about his father.
Maria Pavlovna Radimova (b. 1915) - daughter of Radimov and the artist Maria Medvedeva (daughter of the artist Grigory Medvedev), married to Konstantin Pavlovich, landscape painter.
Radimov Ivan Aleksandrovich - brother of the artist, academician of painting. The article presents his painting from the collection of the museum "Zaraisk Kremlin", called here "Victory Parade". In fact, the picture is called "Belov's Cavalry in Zaraysk"
Painting characteristic
His first paintings, telling about Kazan and the Kazan province, began to appear regularly since 1908 (Outskirts of Kazan, 1908; Cloth Sloboda in Kazan. Winter, 1910; Fish Market in Kazan, 1911; Fire tower in Kazan", 1917; etc.). In the first decades of his work, he mainly depicted huts and "vegetable gardens of silent deaf villages."
He was a member of the Association of the Wanderers and its last chairman - the themes and style of this trend are noticeable in his works. When N. N. Dubovskoy, chairman of the Association of Traveling Exhibitions, died in 1918, Radimov was elected chairman of the Association, and in 1922 achieved the organization of the 47th exhibition of the Wanderers.
In connection with the closure of the 47th exhibition of braces, he made a presentation on the seemingly unpretentious topic "On the reflection of everyday life in art." This report, met with frenzied attacks from the entire "left" front, contributed to the organization of the Soviet Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AHRR). As the catalog of the AHRR exhibition of 1933 says: “In 1922, at the 47th traveling exhibition, he made a report on realistic art, reflecting Soviet life. The report served as the beginning of a large Soviet public art movement, which took shape in the form of the AHRR (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia).” In 1922, Radimov joined the AHRR.
Already in 1922, Radimov, as part of the first small team of Soviet realist artists, went with a sketchbook to factory sketches and painted the foundry. As an artist, he attended party congresses, making sketches for portraits of leaders, created the paintings "Meeting in the Kremlin", "Trotsky's Speech at the Second Congress of the Comintern". He has a workshop in the Kremlin, along with his friend Yevgeny Katsman, secretary of the AHRR, and David Shterenberg. He makes sketches of meetings of congresses, participants in the Third Congress of the Comintern, and many sketches of the old and renovated Kremlin. Contributed to the construction of the House of Artists on Maslovka.
In 1928, at the anniversary exhibition of the 10th anniversary of the Red Army (the 10th exhibition of the AHRR - “10 years of the Red Army”), one of the organizers of which he became, Radimov exhibits a large painting on the historical and revolutionary theme “People in mats” (a barge with revolutionaries - suicide bombers rescued from the White Guard captivity - the famous barge of Kolchak in Sarapul), later exhibited in the central hall of the Soviet pavilion in Venice.
After the "campaign of dispossession of kulak poets" he is engaged in almost one painting. Organizes the Moscow Regional Union of Artists, is elected its first chairman. He is not zealous in the themes of socialist realism introduced by the AHRR, preferring the landscape.
After the revolution, cycles of landscape works by Radimov appeared, dedicated to Bashkiria, Chuvashia, the Mari land, Central Asia and, finally, central Russia and the Moscow region.
The artist's last personal lifetime exhibition was held in Moscow in 1962 and was dedicated to his 75th birthday. In 2005, the Zolotoy Ples Gallery showed the exhibition Pavel Radimov. The Wanderer and the Poet" in the Fireplace Hall of the House of Journalists (Moscow). In 2007 Kazan hosted a posthumous exhibition dedicated to the 120th anniversary of his birth.
