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I think that would not be superfluous to publish in this topic of the encyclopedia article FA Brockhaus and IA Efron. The article was written during the lifetime of the artist's famous artistic and literary critic of the time Chuyko Vladimir.

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«Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov marine painter, was born March 16, 1824 in Novgorod province, was brought up in the Naval Academy. While still a cadet, B. and paint. In 1839 began the service in the Navy. In 1849, was among the officers of the ship "Kamchatka", which went to the Madera Duke Maximilian Leuchtenberg. Acquainted with the figures AB, Duke advised the young officer to devote himself to art. BA followed the advice of the Duke and in 1850 entered the Academy of Fine Arts student volunteer. His artistic education for the most part he is obliged to Professor MP Vorobiev and BP Villevalde.

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Two types of Kronstadt harbor and for the painting "The flood in Kronstadt harbor in 1824" was granted the highest gifts. In 1852 he received a second gold medal in three paintings: "View of the Smolny monastery and Ohta," "Battle of the brig" Mercury "with two Turkish ships" (from the Turkish War of 1828) and "Check HIH Duke Maximilian of Leichtenberg Lisbon. B. left the academy in 1863 with the first gold medal and at the same time by His Majesty's orders he was appointed artist of the Naval Staff. In that position he is today. Leaving the naval service, BA for seven years traveling around Europe. In Geneva, he enjoyed the advice of the famous Kalama, in Paris, worked in the studio Izobe and within two years he studied at the famous marine painter Andrew Achenbach. In the same 1856 BA was in Constantinople, on the Danube and in Sinop to write some sketches for paintings, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas. Upon his return was given the title of Academician, and in 1860 professor of painting. B. At the same time arranged in the halls of acad. exhibition of his works in favor of widows and orphans of artists. In this exhibition, special public attention drawn the pictures from the history of our fleet, ordered by the Emperor, and in particular its "Sinop" and "Kermes in Amsterdam (now located in the Hermitage). In subsequent years BA has traveled with the artistic goals for Russia. The Emperor Alexander, estimating work and talent B., instructed him to write the story in pictures of the fleet of Peter the Great, these works B. was busy during the last reign. The last Turkish war in its Black Sea and Danube exploits exactly reflected in the work of our seascape. In these works, BN Hydrographic Department, on behalf of the Maritime Ministry, together with the captains Bazhenov and Crown sailed on the Baltic ports in the Gulf of Finland and reefs for the execution of the atlas, portrayed the coast and measurement space ports and rocky passes. The same atlas was done to them and in the Caspian Sea, under the leadership of hydrograph, Captain Ivashentsova. In 1871, B. for the Orthodox Church in Paris several murals. In the same year he gave the Academy of up to 225 sketches in oils and 800 drawings and watercolors networks. The last twenty years BA lives in Paris, only occasionally visiting Russia. Thanks to his initiative, in Paris arranged Community mutual welfare Russian artists, which provides shelter and an opportunity for young Russian artists to work in the public workshop with nature, without any personal expenses. January 8, 1891 on the initiative of the members of this society was celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of AP Bogolyubov: 8 th January 1841 he graduated BA Marine Cadet Corps with the rank of warrant officer of the fleet. It should also be noted the device by Bogolyubov in the city of Saratov Museum named Radishcheva which the artist has a grandson.
Without a doubt, AP Bogolyubov is one of the first, the most talented of our marine painters. It can be put together with the best European seascapes. B. The advantage lies in the fact that he perfectly knows Russian nature, who might be the first to have been reproduced in art works of high denomination bank of the Volga, Oka, Caspian and Black Seas, and many coastal areas of Finland and Gulf of Finland. His larger compositions, part of naval battles also remain in the history of the Russian landscape, some of them, as, for example., A naval battle at Sinop, reveal the remarkable power of composition, the distribution of fine details, excellent color and superb picture. Paintings, executed on behalf of the Emperor Nicholas and Alexander II, form a gallery of nearly complete history of our navy. This gallery can be considered one of the very rare: we do not know in Europe, no marine painter, whose work would present such integrity, diversity and richness. However, the value of BA as an artist is not so much in the artistic depiction of the history of the Russian fleet, as all his works, directly related to the simple sea. The sea and all water, aerial perspective B. knows perfectly; his seascape it can also give a strong poetic feeling. He, along with Lagorio, Aivazovsky and other much younger seascapes - Begrovym, Sudkovskim, Orlovsky, Vasiliev - are the first and, so to speak, the only representatives of the Russian sea. More and more young Russian marine painter, directly or indirectly, are his disciples.

Chuiko.

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painter; mind. in Paris in 1896 "

About the Authors:

«Chuiko Vladimir

(1839-1899) - literary and art critic. He studied at the Omsk Cadet Corps, then joined the Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg. University, but did not finish the course. I listened to a lecture in Paris at the Sorbonne, mostly on philosophy, history, literature and comparative linguistics, studied in Germany and Italy, the history of art, especially painting and sculpture of the Renaissance. On the literary career was made by Charles in 1862, placing in the "Illustrations" long article "The Nature and Knowledge"; since 1866 has worked in the Women's Messenger "and" Nevsky Collection ", which published several articles on modern British writers, in 1867 went to Paris as a correspondent for St. Petersburg. Vedomosti (VF Korsch); during the Franco-Prussian War, printed in The Voice "and" Stock-Exchange Gazette letter from the camp garibaldiyskogo, Geneva and Rome. In 1872 Charles led a critical satirical article in The Voice, since 1878 - in the "News" and also participated in the "Alarm" (under the pseudonym Mask). Several of his articles on the history of literature and the arts published in "Notes of the Fatherland", "News of Europe", "Observer", "Northern Messenger", "Trud", "Novi", "Problems of Philosophy and Psychology", etc. In 1880 gg. Charles made the publication series "European writers and thinkers" in the translation and retrieval (Swift, Boccaccio, Renan, Condorcet, Petronius, Diderot, Fichte, Schopenhauer. Etc., a total of 21 book). Translated and edited translations of Heine, Balzac, Taine, Stendhal, Szajnochy, Lewis, Bret Harte and others from the original works of Charles went separate edition, "The modern Russian poetry and its representatives (St. Petersburg, 1885) and a voluminous monograph" Shakespeare his life and works "(St. Petersburg, 1889). This - the most extensive in Russian book about Shakespeare, written in a lively and literary. »