MOSCOW, RUSSIA - A famous British photojournalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize James Hill visited WTC Moscow as part of his new project in order to photograph the unique mosaics located in one of the office buildings of the Center and in the atrium of the Crowne Plaza Moscow WTC Hotel.

The key theme of his new photography project will be the Soviet mosaic murals. The mosaics for World Trade Center Moscow were created in 1981 by a renowned muralist Boris Alexandrovich Talberg.

After he finished his work, James Hill expressed his delight at the quality of the mosaics and at how well the WTC murals have been preserved. “I’ll be honest with you this is one of the best mosaics in Russia. This is a very fine work!” – he said with admiration.

Boris Alexandrovich Talberg (1930-1984)

Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and of the prize of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts at the faculty of monumental painting, where he was taught by G. I. Rublev (1949-1952) and at the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry named after V. I. Mukhina (1952-1953). He used various techniques and worked in a number of genres of monumental and decorative art, as well as in the field of easel painting and graphics.

The painter was awarded with the State Prize of the USSR in 1981 for his work titled “Welcoming Russia”. He is the author of a mosaic mural on the façade of the Borodino Battle panorama museum.Today his mosaic murals are included in the list of historic and cultural monuments of Moscow and in the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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