more than fifty graphic works of leonid shchemelev came before the viewer for the first time. exhibition of graphics is presented in the artist's gallery and is held as part of the celebration of the centenary of the people's artist of belarus. sketches, sketches, sketches, created by the hand of a master over the years in different styles and techniques. this is the backstage of a great artist, and now these are the funds of our museum, the museum of the history of the city of minsk and the leonid shchemelev art gallery, in family collection, of course, there are still a lot of works left, both paintings and graphic ones, and this is really still a large layer of work, so to speak, to study the work of leonid shchemelev, most of the works presented at the exhibition have not yet been seen... by our visitors, this is such material well, you can say, in most cases, a worker, you can even say that he’s a rough worker, and it’s very cool that people... will be able to see a little peek behind the scenes of the artist, because such things are rarely accessible to an outsider. you