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Just let go of the mind that Vozdanik Adoyan lived in Sochi! And that is the village near Sochi Loo. Remember his painting "The Battle of roosters in the Loo." Here's an interesting article from the newspaper "Our Sochi.

GORKIY ANGEL OF MIGRATORY.
Star and Death Vozdanika Adoyana


In 2006, at Christies auction for the painting "The Battle of roosters in the Loo" unknown judge laid out $ 5.7 million. In the constellation Lyra is the star of his name.
Gothic girlfriend gave me a poster. In the picture horned green angel tangled in the branches. She said: "Our people!" I have long thought about who is she? It turned out - about the artist.
Went to the city Art Museum - find out about the life of the painter. Still, 10 years, albeit with interruptions, albeit a century ago, he was our countryman. Looked at me, as Mr. Bean. "And about the early Picasso, you do not want to receive exclusive? This is almost the same ...
In Sochi - 9 am, in Seattle - well past midnight. Nevertheless, the response to an email arrives instantly, so even with the phone number. Ellina (Helen) Adoyan-Butcher - great-niece and biographer of the artist. Plain enough - it must be age 80 (book she wrote about him in 1959), and the voice - light as a feather. Online - interested. Accent - elusive.
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... - When I saw your message, just woke up! (Laughs). You are correct key words written to me they like Da Vinci Code!
- It's what?
- Gorky. Angel. Sochi.
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What we know about him? Little more than an encyclopedia.
Vozdanik Adoyan was born in 1904 - in the village Khorgo (Western Armenia), in the family priest. In 1915, fleeing from the Turkish massacre, the family flees to the mountain monastery of Echmiadzin. Wanderings begins in the Caucasus.
In craft tenements Sochi Vozdanik grinds bone combs for sale, works in bookbinding, then an assistant cutter shoes. This meeting is a landmark: a young man opens a world of colors and the fact that the shoe boxes can be perfect to paint! On unusual "designer" soon gossip Sochi fashionable women. Here he meets a first love, which later in the interview to say only the name - Anna, and that "her wealthy parents, of course, did not consider me a worthy man." Here he is known as Vozdanika-mad chicken suburb, who always wears a narrow shoe knife in the heel - because "we must be able to keep yourself high (194 cm during the growth is no choice!). Here he wrote his first paintings, mixing cheap blue dye with sand to catch the color of the tornado over the sea "...
In 1926, a year after immigrating to America, he has taught at the New York Academy of Art. Frescoes of the apostles Newark Airport. And immediately organized an exhibition "Twelve piglets gay" - for each of the 12 paintings standing tub with peach moonshine, which Vozdanik love in Sochi, and glasses did not stand. After that party some movie stars as a shy, wrote an eyewitness, "were loaded into cars wrapped in evening gowns. (Sorry, I swear, if the miraculous elixir recipe is lost forever!) Was married to Agnes Makgruder - daughter of Admiral U.S. Navy. He tried to drown her in a garden swimming pool ...
In June 1948, was in a car accident along with his impresario (he was driving). Severely injured his left - working! - Hand. A month later he hanged himself in a motel town Sherman.
In 2006, at Christies auction for the painting "The Battle of roosters in the Loo" unknown judge laid out $ 5.7 million. In the constellation Lyra is the star of his name.
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- Why he took the pseudonym Arshile Gorky?
- The name Arshile connected with the Armenian word "aysahar" - possessed, the damned. And with the popular hero of westerns - Archie Hahn, nicknamed "Big Gun". From proletarian writer, he certainly did not know.
- He really drew cartoons about Batman?
- Yes, to somehow survive in America. I made two thousand graphic works. It is difficult to call creativity. He called it "my screen Calvary. Could fooled around, for example, to write on ma-and-scarlet a button on pants in a Batman costume! For one sheet they paid him 70 cents. We have one copy of the comic strip, which Arshile Gorky had a hand, worth tens of thousands of dollars.
- The most valuable paintings because it was considered "Sochi period"?
- Yes, the experts valued higher than the U.S.. "Cherry plum and eight waterfalls," "River of Fire" - his early landscapes very uh ... cheerful. Then they came to grief. Then the pain. Changed colors - everything was dark, cold, with sharp angles. And he stopped to draw a winged figure on the back of the canvas. Previously, it was his autograph, a talisman. The frame of his latest paintings wrote "fly away, my dear" ...
- Is it true that he wanted to visit Russia, and even wrote to Stalin?
- He is very experienced events of the war. He collected money for the front to charity exhibitions. He was then supported by the leading artists of America - John Pollack, William Canning. But the Soviet leadership did not allow him even to come to Yerevan on his mother's grave.
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We talked a little more, and Ms. Butcher said: "What is in Sochi on the site of his hut?" I do not know what to say. We know (thanks to Alla Valentinovna Guseva from the museum of history of the city).
Former street Crafts - now part of sycamore avenue. Double-deck plank barracks ( "Chicken 'Village"), including one in which the artist filmed the angle from the window, were scattered at the site of the popular in the late XIX century baths Rudenko (caught the first flight into space!) To Mamontov descent (District Ex - cinema "Satellite"). They say that the reconstructed bridge miraculously preserved pair of age-old lime trees. Now here - fast food empire and the same trade. At faded cabinet grew ruffled elusive as fate, Batman ...
Prague before a dive, I saw a bronze behemoth with a mouth to belly. The sign read: "Presumably, this writer thought his Meyrink Golem. Presumably, it is clear? That is, may not Golem, and not here as well - went writer refreshment. But a swarm of tourists besieging the pub day and night, - reclamation works on the image of "cultural capital". A rather short history of Sochi permanently erased 10 years of life, recognized as a classic throughout the world. Good riddance. All we had these geniuses - like leaves in the wind.

(Vitaly TYUNNIKOV)
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