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Warrant Officer

    1841

    I was released, as stated in the seventeen thousand (17 th crew of the 2 nd naval division), although it was not me seventeen full years (6).

    Prozimovali we are in St. Petersburg is important. Blood was boiling the key, but money was not so hot a lot. My mother was not rich, gave what she could, no more than fifteen rubles a month. Salaries for all went navychet outfit so for different hull broken. And they heard, was subtracted from us and for the spent rods, but I have not seen the bill, and therefore do not confirm it.

    With a passion for the arts, I often wandered in the Hermitage, went to the shops Prints, met with Dobitsieli (Rippy), which had a shop of any color in the Academy of Fine Arts, and finally attacked the inn "Golden Anchor" (who does not know it!) the artist Krugovihina. This man was a drinker, but kind, he wrote to the marina, and not entirely without talent, dragged out the bitter days, complaining about fate and the academic authorities who would not want to give him an academician. During this time he painted "Korbaz skipper Nikitina," which attacked the British cruiser in the White Sea. It seemed to me - good and even very much, but as exhibited for the third time in the Academy - again rental! And washed down Krugovihin than ever in this video I found him at home.

    Pohmelyatsya went first, and then he led me in the arcade to the merchant Kuzin, art dealer, together with the crystal - a peasant wise, deep connoisseur of the old school, who enjoyed the affection of my deceased benefactor of Duke Maximilian Leuchtenberg. Cousins met us harshly. Krugovihin me introduced himself as a young amateur artist and asked to borrow money for future earnings. It turned out that the calculation he should have four rubles - they gave a drunk and in debt to no avail. After seeing what was in the shop, I asked the cousin to allow to continue dating. He said coldly and curtly: "Good sir" - and we parted. "Do not bite neither for you nor for me to go to Nikiforov. Went to Apraksin number, we went to the line and found a shop where I also saw every painting, but far worse Kuzinskoy. Trade there were more than just Saint Nicholas da king stenciled half-length portrait of Nicholas. Nikiforov, drinking tea, we drank a glass. Krugovihin also asked to borrow money, there is no merit was not, but nevertheless was granted three rubles, and I was offered a job - for 5 rubles to do portraits of the tsar, or Saint Nicholas. Material ready - canvas and paint, and so on.

    

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Krugovihina I go home, and he went behind the bench, where two guys in a circle-cropped, suggests stencil pink colors, and the third - the artist Efimov - flitseval them, that is smoothed, removing buttons, and wrote on them, eagles, and then finished brisk strokes stars, medals and epaulettes. Head has been held naposled.

    In two sessions I began to write better than these gentlemen, and then, when more than much progress, he did two portraits of the day, differing poshiba who really liked the owner. And earn money on their pleasures. But since this was only the artistic and industrial work, I soon made friends with Cousin, who paid me for my pictures on 3 and 5 rubles, forcing to make copies, and gave very sound advice - in leisure time not to neglect the kind.

    It is time to go to Kronstadt. The crew went on a campaign, but because soon I went there, got hold of some work on Cousin, but until the fall had nothing to do, because the service and the wild life took away all the time.

    A second naval division commander Vice-Admiral Alexander Durassov, whom I subsequently was a personal aide to his death . Durassov was a very respectable man, if he was sixty years old, he was a friend Michael A. Lazarev and Bellingshausen. At the Battle of Mount Athos in 1807 was badly wounded in the head, so it lay for three days without any signs of life, and it is already doomed to throw overboard. He was a man reading, educated, served in England, Volunteer, and therefore owned the language, as well as German. His wife, Martha Maksimovna was very intelligent and worldly woman, by birth Korobko, daughter of former Chief Commander of the Kronstadt port, most of which, ehav in St. Petersburg, was questioned by a joker, an officer at the Havana post: "Who goes there?". Lackey said: "box." - "Well, in the box, then who?" (Carriage was an old-fashioned.) - "The same box" - he said the admiral. The officer was confused. He had three daughters. First married Admiral Avinova, the second for Durasova, the third in the Admiral MP Lazarev. A son, Theodore Korobko, very prim and proper upbringing and feminine, well-knitted and embroidered satin. All the ladies were brisk, smart and sharp. Reputed for mothers komandirsh and a great gossip, that in such a secular upbringing was very curious and instructive to all.

    Together with my crew went to my comrade in the Corps Warrant Officer Leonti L. Euler, with whom we remained friends until old age. He was a small kind, honest, funny and not stupid. With him, we often had lived together, and not once have in my little creative scrapbook of him to mention. Euler was the grandson of the famous academician of Euler, a mathematician. In the Divisional Admiral was appointed evening, he invited me and Euler dance after our official turnout. Dicko had suddenly found himself in the circle completely unfamiliar admirals, captains and other dignitaries and officers. But when the music began, the eldest daughter of Martha A. Durasova approached us and said: "My father told me with both of you dance." Want to? ". - "Want" - we both answered in unison with Euler. "Well, let's go." And we went to waltz turn, and then she introduced us to various young ladies, and we pre-dinner dancing tirelessly.

    So, first impression was pleasant. On another day we went to look for mates. Settled, of course, on the suction basket, beggars, lived five of them, lounging on the floor, but do not be sad, because soon priobvykli. Dulis in the Summer Garden of skittles to exhaustion. But the time has come to serve. Our ship was called the Ox. " Was about 84 guns. More correctly it was called "Will" in memory of taking the building "Will" in the Polish revolt, but the Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich alien will not allow because it is so him and baptized.

    The island Sikora Admiral Durasova occurred to pomanevrirovat. They walked in line, the signal - "Turn tack all of a sudden". Steel roll, craft 15-second crew Fershampenuaza "Mr. davnul in the" ox "in the right sink and blew his left hand. How to be here? Do serious repair once. Tried-and ryadili invented. Since I had a reputation as an artist, then I was drafted. "We can - I say - when obobyut aft canvas, then dare to paint her windows, different scales and traction'll take." And sure enough, his face in the dirt I did not hit him. When all was ready, canvas anointed with soot, I was leaving for good distance and commanded a senior painter - the devils with chalk so yes that way. And after himself, hung on the arbor, and have done work as it should, so got from the commander Shihmanova full of gratitude. With the "Oxen" and took a sample for "Fershampenuazy.

    This year, that is, 1841, was formidable. The first of July celebration in Tsaritsyn ships from their anchors are not just frustrated, so found a squall, many boats capsize. Boat from our ship was almost killed, and in this day drowned actor Samoilov (father of Basil). Three days later he was appointed Supreme review (7). Of course, Prince Menshikov was told about the collision of ships, and that's what he threw a piece with the Emperor (yes it so much he spent - will tell later). There are two divisions of 18 ships nose to Kronstadt, aligned like soldiers. The Emperor goes through the right side and suddenly came to the 15 th that was wounded on the left side, the ship cuts through the line and "ox" is the part of a healthy shell stern. He showed the king of the frigate "New" and went back on track. So that the Emperor had not noticed the flaw and is all the thanks.

    We went back out to sea and came to winter in Sveaborg. We had a brigade commander Zahar Balk - the same delicate Sugar Saharovich, which I served as a midshipman on board the Prohor.


 6) Bogolyubov, 8 January 1841 was promoted to warrant officer and was assigned to the 16 th the crew and the 17 th moved on November 21 that same year.
 7) In the reign of Nicholas I's highest annual review of the Baltic Fleet was a major event, tied to the day of the marriage of Nicholas and Alexandra July 1, 1817 This day was a name-day queen. In TSVMM stored pattern hierarchy, "Review of the Baltic Fleet in 1848, which Nicholas held at a royal brig" Nevka ".

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KRUGOVIHIN Konstantin V. (1815 -?)

Eighteen boys Konstantin V. Krugovihin volnoprihodyaschim became a disciple of the Imperial Academy of Arts, was under the auspices of Society for the Encouragement of Artists. At the Academy he studied under the famous pedagogue, MN Vorobiev. A young artist specializing in paintings of marine species and landscapes. In 1838, he received a small silver medal for his painting "Night" in 1840 - the title neklassnogo artist. Since this year began participating K. Krugovihina in exhibitions of the Academy, one of which in 1843 received a large silver medal. The artist was thinking about the title of academician, so in 1845 filed a petition for permission to write an academic program on the subject of the story, AA Bestuzhev (Marlinskogo) "Sailor Nikitin. At this time, something the artist did not happen, because we know for certain that only in 1855, KV Krugovihin recognized as a "designated" to the Academy for his work "The sea view. More information about the life and work of an artist lost in the depths of decades. And some of the paintings have survived. These are what make it possible to assess the artist's work and expand, albeit not by much, our ideas about the domestic landscape painting of the mid XIX century.