Сообщение от Tiutchev
... Little known work of memoir, AP Bogoliubov, issued a separate publication in St. Petersburg during the life of the author (in 1895), entitled "Memoirs of a Bose pochivshem Alexander III Professor AP Bogolyubov. For the hierarchy was natural to leave the grateful memories of the rulers, he knew Alexander III, Grand Prince and more in their lifetime had special relationships based on interest in art. These memoirs are unique. Of what is said in them about the figure, is Russia the highest state position, it is impossible to find in any modern educational or scientific treatise. The author's memoirs did not set itself the task to reveal all the facets of this personality in his field of vision above all the emperor as a man, in all its manifestations, due, no doubt, his high status. This is understandable, AP Bogolyubov regards the activities of Alexander III, through the prism of his profession, through the prism of past relationships to art. This attitude, by the way, throughout the reign of Alexander III (1881 - 1894) was a positive, constructive. Recall that a "good" to create a museum named after AN Radishchev was given by Alexander III.
That's what Alex P. writes in his book on Alexander III: «I am an old man, my life as a leader and a man comes to an end, but because you live more than memories of the past, strongly feel the loss of those whom he loved sincerely, with full sincere feeling of respect for their intelligence and had useful activity.
Accepted for us in Russia to talk about people who smile happiness that a man "born in the shirt." I keep saying this applied to me, during my long years of life, no imagining, am I right on my merits as an artist and a man considered himself worthy of the position which I occupied in the field of art and society. Of course, without the labor and talent, and without appendages mental, I would not be seen by anybody, but when this natural aid still realize that I have led the Providence of God, and happiness. Such happiness in my life were those unforgettable moments and hours that supportive fate puts me in close and direct communication with our untimely deceased monarch "
Judgments memoirist of multilateral activities of the emperor, related to the sphere of art, based on specific, historically accurate facts. AP Bogolyubov also tells about the intention of Alexander III to create a museum of national art: "He could not see what space there is in his capital, not having such a repository, wherever in the combined form was submitted to our native art ... No doubt, with this thought many of the paintings acquired The Emperor and bearing in mind the name of the future museum. " The museum, as a testament of Alexander III, was founded by his successor, Nicholas II (now a famous Russian museum) ...
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