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Nailya Alexander Gallery opens an exhibition inspired by the photography book A Pageant of Youth Boris Ignatovich, Youth, 1937. Vintage gelatin silver print. 16 1/2 x 21 15/16 in. (41.9 x 55.7 cm). NEW YORK, NY .-Nailya Alexander Gallery is presenting A Pageant of Youth, an exhibition inspired by the photography book of the same name, designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko (18911956) and Varvara Stepanova (18941958) for the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. The book emphasizes the importance of physical culture among Soviet youth and showcases one of the extravagant annual All-Union Sports Parades held on Red Square in Moscow, as well as other athletic activities fashionable in the 1930s. Athleticism and physical health were promoted by the newly formed Soviet state in order to serve one of its main objectives: the creation of an entirely novel and advanced type of human being called The New Soviet Man who would be selfless, educated, and physically strong, while consta ....