| 1893 | A. Plastov was born on January 18 (31) in the village of Prislonikha, Simbirsk Guberniya (now Ulyanovsk Region). |
| 1903-1908 | He studied in Simbirsk Clerical School. |
| 1908-1912 | He studied in Simbirsk Theological Seminary. He took lessons in drawing from D.I. Arkhangelsky. |
| 1912-1914 | He studied in Imperial Stroganov Central Art-and-Industry School in Moscow. His teacher was F.F. Fyodorovsky.
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| 1914-1917 | He studied in Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Statuary Art Department. His teacher was S.M. Volnukhin. He took lessons from A.E. Arkhipov, A.M. Vasnetsov, A.M. Korin, L.O. Pasternak, A.S. Stepanov. |
| 1917-1925 | He permanently lived in Prislonikha. He was elected Secretary of the Village Soviet and Committee for the Poor. He worked at drawings and water colours. |
| 1924 | He participated in the competition for the best sculptural project of a monument for the fallen in battles for Simbirsk. |
| 1925-1926 | He produced sculptural works under the order of V.I. Lenin House Museum, Ulyanovsk Authority for Local Economies. |
| 1927-1930 | He travelled to Moscow. He worked in various publishing houses. He created his picture “Pugachov” (lost) and also made illustrations for the works of M. Gorky, A.P. Chekhov. |
| 1931 | The house of Plastov was burned down in fire and almost all of his works made by him by this time were burned down as well. |
| 1931-1934 | He worked at the posters on agricultural and military themes. He created portraits and compositions on the country life themes (gouache, water colour). |
| 1935 | He produced his first big pictorial canvases for All-Russia Cooperative Partnership “Khudozhnik”: “Sheepshearing” (Chelyabinsk Regional Picture Gallery), “Kolkhoz Stable” (private collection, England), “Midday in the Stable”, “Haymaking”, "Stableman Volkov" (situs of the pictures unknown). |
| 1936 | He travelled up and down the Volga river and to Northern Caucasia to collect material for his picture “Bathing the Horses”, ordered for the art exhibition “XX Years of the Workers-and-Peasants Red Army and Naval Forces” (1938). |
| 1937 | He joined Moscow Division of the Union of the Soviet Artists (MDUSA). He made illustrations for the stories and essays by G.I. Uspensky while working at the picture “Holiday in the Kolkhoz” (“Feast of the Harvest”) (State Russian Museum). |
| 1937-1938 | He worked at his pictures “Bathing the Horses” (State Russian Museum), “The Herd” (“Out at Grass”) (Ekaterinburg Municipal Museum of Fine Arts) for the art exhibition “Food Industry”, the exhibition section “The Industry of Socialism” (1939). He worked at the panel picture for the exhibition hall of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. |
| 1939 | Within the delegation of the artists he worked at the panel picture “The Outstanding People of the Country of Soviets” for the Soviet exhibition hall of the world exhibition “The World Tomorrow” in New York.
He produced the pictures “Herdsmen” (Saratov State Art Museum after A.N. Radishchev) and “The Lesson of Botany” (private collection, USA). |
| 1940 | He received a workshop in Moscow. He made his pictures “Night Watch” (State Tretyakov Gallery), “Dressage Test for a Horse” (situs unknown), water colours “Subscription for a Loan in the Kolkhoz” (Irkutsk Regional Art Museum) and “Elections of the Committee for the Poor”, “Registering for the Kolkhoz” (“Submission of Applications to Join the Kolkhoz”), “Disposal of Cattle to the Poor” (State Tretyakov Gallery). |
| 1941-1942 | He worked at the pictures “Germans are Coming. July 1941” (Tula Regional Art Museum), “To Partisans” (Museum of Fine Arts of Tajikistan after Bekzade, Dushanbe), “There Flew a Fascist By” (State Tretyakov Gallery), “Alone against the Tank” (private collection), “Defending House and Home” (situs unknown). |
| 1942-1943 | He visited the front at Stalingrad. He made a cyclus of water colours on the front themes. |
| 1943-1944 | He worked at his pictures “Saturday” and “Women Tractor Drivers” (collection of the artist’s family). |
| 1944-1945 | He worked at the “Guest from the Front-Line” (Smolensk Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts after S.T. Konenkov), “March” (Saratov State Art Museum after A.N. Radishchev), “Haymaking” and ”Harvest” (both in the State Tretyakov Gallery). |
| 1945 | He was awarded the medal “For Heroic Labour in the Great Patriotic War. 1941-1945”. He was conferred the title of the RSFSR Honoured Worker of Arts. |
| 1946 | He was awarded the Stalin Prize of the First Degree for his pictures “Haymaking” and “Harvest”. |
| 1946-1947 | He worked at his pictures “Fair” (National Art Museum of Moldova, Chisinau), “Threshing-Floor” (Astrakhan Picture Gallery after B.M. Kustodiyev), “Going to Elections” (State Tretyakov Gallery), “By the Mill” (collection of the artist’s family). He created the cyclus of illustrations for N.A. Nekrasov's poem “Frost the Red Nose”. |
| 1947 | He was elected the full-fledged member of the USSR Academy of Arts.
He produced the pictures “Partisans” (State Russian Museum), “Threshing-Floor in Kolkhoz” (Kiev State Museum of Russian Art), a cyclus of illustrations for the works by A.S. Pushkin and A.M. Gorky. |
| 1950 | He painted his picture “Children” (Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum). |
| 1951 | He made the pictures “Herdboy Vitya” (State Russian Museum), “Supper of the Tractor Driver” (Irkutsk Regional Art Museum). |
| 1952 | He made his picture “The Spring-Well” (National Picture Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan). |
| 1953-1954 | He worked at his picture “Youth” (State Russian Museum). |
| 1954 | He produced his picture “Spring” (State Tretyakov Gallery). |
| 1954-1967 | He worked at the pictures “Holiday” (Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum) and “The Blind” (property of the artist’s family). |
| 1955 | He produced the picture “A Girl with a Bicycle” (Irkutsk Regional Art Museum). |
| 1955-1957 | He worked at his picture “The Young” (State Museum of Arts of Republic of Kazakhstan after A. Kasteyev, Almaty). |
| 1956 | He was conferred the title of the RSFSR People’s Artist. He visited Italy and France. He created a cyclus of Italian and French sketches.
He participated at the international art exhibition “Biennale di Venezia” (“The Spring-Well”, ”Youth”, “Supper of the Tractor Drivers”). He created the picture “Picking Potatoes” (State Russian Museum). |
| 1957 | He was elected Member of the Board of the Union of the USSR artists and of the Union of the RSFSR artists. He created the pictures “August of a Collective Farmer”, “A Girl with a Rake” (Vera Volkova) (both in the State Tretyakov Gallery), “Appian Way” (Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum), “When there is Peace on Earth” (private collection, USA), “Venice” (situs unknown). |
| 1958 | He was awarded the gold medal of the USSR Ministry of Culture for his pictures “August of a Collective Farmer”, “A Girl with a Rake”, “A Girl with a Bicycle”. He took part in the international art exhibition “Biennale di Venezia” (“Fascist Flew By”, “A Girl with a Bicycle”, “Threshing-Floor in Kolkhoz”, illustrations for the works by L.N. Tolstoy) and in the World Exhibition in Brussels, whereat he was awarded the Honourable Diploma and the bronze medal for his picture “Supper of the Tractor Drivers”. |
| 1959-1961 | He worked at the pictures “Summer” (State Tretyakov Gallery) and “Midday” (State Russian Museum). |
| 1961 | He painted the author's repetition of his picture “Supper of the Tractor Drivers” for the State Tretyakov Gallery. |
| 1961-1962 | He worked at the picture “In the Village (“A Jug of Milk”) (State Tretyakov Gallery). |
| 1962 | He was conferred the title of the USSR People’s Artist. He created the picture “Death of a Tree” (National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk). |
| 1963 | He was awarded the Lenin Order for his great services in development of the Soviet fine arts and in light of the 70th anniversary of his birthday. He visited Italy. He created a cyclus of the Italian studies. |
| 1964 | He was awarded the Honourable Medal of Calcutta’s Society of Arts.
The personal exhibition of his works in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. |
| 1964-1965 | He worked at his “March in the Country” (Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum) and “Mother” (State Tretyakov Gallery). |
| 1964-1966 | He worked at his “Herdboy” (Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts). |
| 1964-1970 | He worked at the picture “April” (collection of the artist’s family). |
| 1965 | He painted the author's repetition of his picture “September Evening” for Dresden Art Collection “New Masters”. |
| 1965-1966 | He worked at the picture “The Sun” (State Tretyakov Gallery) and visited Egypt. |
| 1966 | He was awarded the Lenin Prize for his series of pictures “People of the Kolkhoz Village” (“The Spring-Well”, “Herdboy Vitya”, “Spring”, “A Girl with a Bicycle”, “Picking Potatoes”, “Supper of the Tractor Drivers”, “In the Village”, “March in the Country”, “Mother”). |
| 1967 | He created the picture “Evening in the Village” (Buryat Republican Art Museum after T.S. Sampilov. Ulan-Ude). |
| 1968 | He was elected the secretary of the Board of the USSR Union of the Artists. He was awarded with the Lenin Order in light of the 75th anniversary of his birthday and of the 50th anniversary of his creative activity. |
| 1968-1969 | He worked at his “Fire in the Field” and “The Sun in March” (both in Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum), “From the Past” (State Tretyakov Gallery). |
| 1971-1972 | He worked at the pictures “Letter” (RSFSR Ministry of Culture), “Indian Summer” (State Tretyakov Gallery), “In the Woods” (Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum), “There Flew a German By” - a variant of the “There Flew a Fascist By” (collection of the artist’s family). |
| 1972 | On the 12th of May he died in the village of Prislonikha.
He was awarded (posthumously) I.Ye. Repin State Prize of the RSFSR for his pictures “Fire in the Field”, “From the Past” and for the portraits of his contemporaries. |
