Vladimir Serov oil on wood panel painting depicting Vladimir Lenin's speech at the 2nd Komsomol Congress in 1919. Signed by the artist lower left VS in Cyrillic. Additionally signed and titled on the back. Framed. Soviet artist Vladimir Alexandrovich Serov (1910-1968) was an apologist for the art of socialist realism. Serov graduated from Leningrad's Academy of Art. A People's Merited Artist of Russia, his works are included in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum.