View AccountStarchikov, Boris Aleksandrovich (1921 – 1999)
Boris Starchikov was born in Moscow to a theatrical family. During the Second World War, he was sent to the Ukrainian Front, where he initially served as a medical orderly and, by the end of the war, as the artistic director of the ensemble of the Junior Command School. He ended the war in Poland. He was arrested after being denounced and sentenced to eight years in a labour camp under Article 58 for possessing anti-Soviet literature. In the camp, Starchikov began his professional career as an artist. He had to be a painter, making copies of famous paintings, painting landscapes, portraits, sculpting, and writing slogans. He found great joy in his work, and through experience, he mastered his craft to such a degree that a professional artist, with whom he was assigned to decorate a club in the village of Mikun in the Sevzheldorlag of the Komi ASSR, couldn't believe Starchikov had no formal art training.
