Artist A. Prokofiev died in 1925

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How did the fate of the last years talented and
well-known landscape beginning of XX century, a pupil of A. Kuindzhi.
Recently became aware of the last years of his life.
He died April 3, 1925. Chuvashia, who was then county Alatyrskij Simbirsk province.
Alexei Prokofiev Matveyevich, was born in 1859, Mr., one of the leading landscape of pre-revolutionary Russia the turn of the century. Studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of artists in St. Petersburg. A graduate of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, a pupil of outstanding landscape AI Kuindzhi (1842-1910). A. Prokofiev was one of the most active participants of the spring exhibitions, established A. Kuindzhi, which were held in the halls of the Academy since 1897. He was a member of the Company name Kuindzhi, built on talented artists of Russia.
Alex Matveyevich was invited Alatyrskij county department of education as an inspector. His name still appears in the list of participants' second exhibition of paintings Society of AI Kuindzhi ", which opened May 6, 1918 in Petrograd in the building of the Academy of Arts, as well as« XX exhibition Petrograd society to promote artists "(1918). We can assume that, probably, A. Prokofiev arrived in Sura in 1919 or 1920, but no later than 1921. Art was organized by the same studio at the People's Commissariat N. Kamenschikovym in 1919 These were hard years of the new Russia.
The name of the painter thus among the participants of an art exhibition, which opened in May 1922 at the former county Alatyrskij theological school. At the exhibition, Prokofiev, presented several works, including "Winter in Poreckij" and "working water". He died a painter, as seen archival documents, "April 3, 1925 in the village Poreckij at age 55 from stomach ulcers. Ibid, and was buried at the village churchyard.
Wife left without means of subsistence, deter-mined, organized a winning lottery art. It included most of the remaining paintings Alexei Matveyevich, his small sketches and landscapes, as well as several large canvases. Acquired these lottery tickets had an opportunity zaimet to remember one of the works of Prokofiev. According to the memoirs, many of them was a picture of the nature Prisursky edge: the fields and woods, meadows and lakes, beautiful Sura, leaving the audience a great vpechatlenie.Na proceeds wife was able to leave the village, went to Leningrad.
The grave of a gifted artist in the village churchyard Poreckoe lost,
Yes, and over the years, his name had almost disappeared from the annals of fine art, as well as the names of many artists, once the "resounding" in the era of imperial Russia. And to this day persist in some families of the village Poreckoe his works, but from time faded, lost their luster and brilliance.
             By publishing materials "Alatyrskij Vesti. 2007

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Thank you as always pleased Very interesting information. Even in years of life Ranking AM Prokofiev indicated very approximately - the nineteenth century. And ... Displaying his picture Alexei Matveyevich next on the wall. 1906. The picture is a dedication: "In fond memory GY Knupfer.