An album of cartoons presented by Stalin to Churchill will be shown to the public for the first time

Visitors to the Cartoons exhibition will find out what drawings Stalin gave Churchill and how the British Prime Minister reacted to the Soviet leader's gift. Comics. The humor of the Fuhrer's personal enemy."

In the exhibition dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of the artist Boris Yefimov and the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, Izvestia International Exhibition Center will present for the first time a unique rarity from its archive: an album with 119 original drawings by the outstanding cartoonist Boris Yefimov. Yefimov, who worked at Izvestia for about 85 years, hand-made this album from his anti-fascist works for the publication of the book "Hitler and his Pack" (1943).

The kit was intended for the publishing house. But when the artist asked to return the originals after the book was published, he was refused: as it turned out, some of the drawings were requested by the Central Committee — Joseph Stalin decided to donate several sheets from this album to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Later, Yefimov repeatedly tried to find the rest of the album, but he never succeeded.

The public has never seen this unique publication before. Now, it will be possible to study the album carefully, both as a whole and individual sheets from it, at a large–scale exhibition that Izvestia has prepared jointly with the Russian Academy of Arts.

Read more about Boris Yefimov and the fascinating story of his album's disappearance in the Izvestia special project https://efimov.iz.ru .

The exhibition "Cartoons. Comics. Humor of the Fuhrer's Personal Enemy" is open to the public from November 19 to December 14, 2025 at the Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts at the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery at 19 Prechistenka Street, Moscow.

Working with Yefimov's legacy, Izvestia also thought about the revival of the genre of political caricature itself, and its return to the pages of the federal media. So if you have discovered your talent as a cartoonist and feel that your work should definitely be seen by our other readers, please send them via the feedback form. https://infopovod.iz.ru /?from=efimov. The Izvestia editorial board and experts from the Russian Academy of Arts will select the best works from the received works, which can then be published on the Izvestia News Center resources. And the most prominent authors will have the opportunity to constantly collaborate with Izvestia.