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Сообщение от Guriev, Igor

Yeah, we know all these myths.
I was near the house where he lived. Far from shack. Now it is one of the most fashionable quarters of Paris

Unfortunately, poverty and need in the life of Konstantin Korovin especially in his later years, the Master is not a myth as you think, and so there is plenty of evidence, as most of Konstantin, and from his relatives. Do not forget that in addition to battered in his old age physical health, heart disease, serious eye problems and mental breaking. Dependents of the Constantine Corwin had his seriously ill wife and son with a disability Alexei, who cut off the tram both legs, not once tried to commit suicide, which he did after the death of ottsa.Teh not a lot of money that could earn Korovin formalizing performances was barely enough to cover the costs of treating friends and rent a rented apartment near the Porte de Saint Cloud.

Сообщение от Guriev, Igor

You can still remember the solemn meeting in one large hall parizhkom (Gugel will help, if anyone wants to clarify. Maybe it was the hall Gaveau, I'm writing to a forum in Gugel not consulted) in the 70 - Korovin anniversary in 1931, the eighth year of his type of emigration. Keep records, photos and so on.

Someone took this room, somebody has come to honor, etc.

Who, when, where .... this is all it is known from the Konstantin

In 1932, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of my artistic activity. Russian colony wanted to mention my birthday concert. Formed a committee. And in the hall Gaveau concert was given.

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During the concert, I was taken to the scene as the hero of the day. Benois read me the address. At this time came up to me by V. Zhukovsky, and said in my ear:
- Chaliapin sent a telegram. But the telegram obscene. I do not know if you can read it.
I do not know what to say. I thought: "What is it written?" The telegram was as follows:
«Sijou seitchas douchoy stoboiou riadom hot troudno sest douchoy avsioj sijou ne zadom no vdaleke v provinhii v toulouze bez drouga tchouvstvouiou sebia kak char billardny v louze spasene lich odno sa zdravie tvoie tchetviortouiou boutyl bordosskago vina ouj pomestchaiou v pouze loubliou tebia tzelouiou jelaiou zdorovia chaliapine» .
When Chaliapin learned that it did not read the telegram, he got very angry and said:
- I do not understand. This obidno.Konstantin Korovin. "Memories of Fyodor Chaliapin"

Сообщение от Guriev, Igor

So the myth of "bedstvovanii" Cow nothing to do with reality is not.

I would like to believe it, but there are eyewitness accounts of how it was actually really ....

His paintings were bought infrequently, and then - for old time's sake. For earnings Korovin repeated motifs of his "Paris Lights" twenty years ago. New kind of "light" it is difficult to ignite, when all interfere with - life, disorder, disease, age ...
However, he never whined, and cheerful, "We Korovin, guys, the Vladimir, we firmly holding the earth."
The story goes that an old worn his clothes and shoes, "struck his hysterical poverty. All he was a gaunt, emaciated and exhausted. " Looked tired and very lonely. Perhaps he simply ceased to look after themselves, as happens with people who were in the public eye, and suddenly felt his uselessness.
Familiar distressed and sorry for Konstantin. However, no hurry to somehow help, even the closest friends once, such as Fyodor Chaliapin. Russian homeland abroad - is a special case. Each floats in its path, and rarely looks back at his neighbor who - if not a utopia ...

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Alexander Dorofeev open air - the story of Konstantin Korovin............. . On his way to exile Chaliapin left. "World fame and big money, which earned Chaliapin, overshadowed by years of disinterested friendship of former times?, Wrote Komarovskaya. They met with Chaliapin rare, and these meetings are not always brought joy Korovin. "... When my poverty and shabby trousers, without pies and summer (remember how Chaliapin was visiting him in Gurzuf) I - Guest uninteresting - wrote Korovin. - ... Something I really do not like it, and suddenly ask for a loan? But do not worry, I will not ask. Fedya, Fedya, and yet I love him, because a genius, but this was strange and sad that I did not recognize him. " And Chaliapin, of course, despite his fame and money, without a hard life in Russia and the Russian public. Both dreamed of a return. One of the happiest of their meetings in the emigration took place in 1932, when Chaliapin came to Paris. He asked his daughter Irina go for Korovin and call him brother to Irene - Boris, which was supposed to arrive, and Rachmaninoff. «What presented itself to my eyes, shocked - says Irina Chaliapin. - I could not imagine that this could live one of our best artists. Crude room in the corner of a bed, curtains drawn, a few chairs ». But the Konstantin still remained beautiful and forgetting about life's difficulties, I was glad everyone a happy moment. I've done Chaliapin dumplings, favorite foods Fedor, tasted vodka, feast on the glory. At the end of Chaliapin and Korovin, remembering his youth, began to dance (the artist has turned seventy.) And, of course, remembered to Russia. Irina Nenarokomova of Konstantin Korovin

So it's not as simple as it might at first seem vzgyad looking out One of the most fashionable quarters of Paris at the house where he lived Korovin ..............

«Money - City ... - more than once he vvertyval strong language. - Do not think about the money. They will come to you ... Write more this is what is on the street in front of your eyes - he said, pointing to the window and looking around the room. - Live in my room, surrounded by paints, watercolors, pastels. ... Everyone write, try yourself in all things. Eat more, be healthy, happy, but for art. It is better to live in a burrow, and enduring all hardships, to enjoy his art ...
Know Faith, Hope and Love, and all three of these deprivations remember.
If one of them had forgotten - died. »(C)