Vladimir Aleksandrovich Serov, Russian, 1910 to 1968, pencil on a paper drawing depicting Vladimir Lenin playing chess during a visit to Maxim Gorky, Capri, Italy, 1908. Signed lower right. Inscribed V. Serov. Lenin and Gorky on Capri to the back. Circa the 1930s. Matted. Soviet artist Vladimir Serov was an apologist for the art of socialist realism. Many of his works he devoted to the historical and revolutionary subject matter. Soviet Historical Drawings And Russian Art Collectibles.