On the last year of the artist's life tells the following document, signed by the rector of the church (translated from French made nieces):
"Peter Gansky - 27 November 42 г.
Since the German invasion of France was in Ghana AP Sostres. His health condition required special care, which he could not be there, and the abbot brought him in May 1942 in a home for elderly priests in Dora (Dorat, Haute Vienne), where he was given good care of the Franciscan Church of the Blessed Virgin.
3 октября 42 g, in Dora all have, to see him and hear what he would like the fact that priests are very attentive to him, and sisters were very attentive, and that he has everything he wanted.
Among the priests, he found many friends who frequently visited him, and the children when he left, surrounded him and asked to draw them, but that he was not very tiring yourself. It is all very much. He ended the day with the glory of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and asked the Blessed Mother of Lourdes pray to God for us.
Mode power supply is not strengthened it. He suffered a heart attack. Within three weeks he was very weak and November 27, 1942 Communion, he quietly walked away, surrounded by priests. The funeral took place on November 30.
(Signed abbot of the temple) "
After the death of Peter P. left his large archive, a number of manuscripts - all this is stored in the archives of the Catholic Church. Ibid kept his fiction novel written by "Red Star" in French, philosophical notes with reflections on life, how to develop stories about the highest sense.
The artistic legacy of the artist's home is small. The museums of Ukraine are stored 38 works, including the Odessa Art Museum - 36, including 30 watercolor sketches, which the museum received a gift from a niece of the artist in 1991, when they came to Odessa to visit their homes, to learn, remember whether the Odessa of his artworks. Etudes acquaint us with the monastic estate, narrow, small, almost deserted streets of a small town. They demonstrate exceptional talent of the artist, he belongs to a southern Russian school. They are also felt in the transfer of light-air napoennossti, and in the choice devoid of any showiness of nature. Among the sketches - watercolor portrait of the artist dressed in a Roman Catholic priest.
Meeting with Yelena and Tatyana Pozdnyakova Zolotova, donated by the work they have greatly enriched the museum collection, made it possible to restore the gap in the history of artistic life in Odessa early XX century. As well as introduce the tragic but very interesting fate of our talented countryman - artist Paul Petrovich, Ghana.
L. Eremin
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