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Voronov Yu
Saratov State University

Russia and the European public Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov known as an outstanding artist - landscape painter, marine battle scenes, created nearly three thousand works of art.
A tireless organizer, reformer and educator in the field of art, AP Bogolyubov initiated the promotion of art in people's thickness through the establishment of Russia's provincial art museum and the school concerned. It is no accident after Saratov museums opened in Penza, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod. In this sense the proclamation and implementation of the idea of moral upbringing and education of the general public through the arts for the fruitfulness of his were to some extent comparable with the idea of the elimination of serfdom, a passionate spokesman and pioneer of which was the great grandfather of the Bogoliubov - Alexander Radishchev.
There are, however, such activities by the artist, which are little known to generations of the twentieth and twenty-first century. Being highly educated, in-kind multi-faceted, he possessed not only a gift to paint with a brush, but a gift to paint a word. He left us his memoirs, the magnificent portraits of contemporaries. Not many know of his vast epistolary heritage, but, perhaps, art historians, some historians.

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work is little known memoir AP Hierarchy, issued a separate publication in St. Petersburg during the life of the author (in 1895), entitled "Memories of a Bose pochivshem Alexander III Professor AP Hierarchy. For the hierarchy was natural to leave the grateful memories of the royal personage, he knew Alexander III, Grand Duke, and yet they have for life has a special relationship, built on the interest in art. These memoirs are unique. Of what is said in them about the public figures involved in Russia, the highest state position, it is impossible to find in any modern educational or scientific treatise. The author's memoirs do not set myself the task of revealing 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 examines the activities of Alexander III, through the prism of his profession, through the prism of the latter to art. This attitude, by the way, throughout the reign of Alexander III (1881 - 1894) was a positive, constructive. Recall that the "good" to create a museum named after AN Radishcheva was given by Alexander III.
That's what Alex Petrovitch 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 emotional sense of respect for their intelligence and had useful activity.
Adopted with us in Russia to talk about people who are fortunate that such a man "born in the caul. Saying this I am constantly applied to him during the long years of my life, no imagining, whether I have the right, on my merits as an artist and a man considered himself worthy of the position which I held both 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 conscious that I was guided by God's providence and happiness. So the happiness of my life were those unforgettable moments and hours of good fortune that put me in close, direct contact with our untimely pochivshim 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 us about the intention of Alexander III to create a museum of national art: "He could not see how there is a gap in its capital, which has no such repository, wherever in the combined form was submitted to our native art ... Clearly, with this thought many of the paintings acquired The Emperor and bearing in mind it is the future museum. " Museum, as a testament of Alexander III, was founded by his successor, Nicholas II (now a famous Russian museum).
In a small sketch can not be any talk in detail about the legacy of memoirs AP Hierarchy. A welcome development was the fact that had lain in the archival collections hundred years "Notes of a sailor-artist" saw the light in the 300-year anniversary of Rossiyskogo fleet. They were prepared by a known expert on the heritage of the great painter Nonna V. Ogareva and published with some reductions in 1996, the magazine "Volga". She has also created major work chronicles the life and work of the artist, AP Hierarchy "(1988).
Above the "Notes" Alexei Petrovich worked about fifteen years. They were initiated by him in Paris in 1881 and remained the subject of his constant attention to the end of life. In recent years, especially often returned to their continuation. Thus, in 1894 he wrote a chapter on MM Antokolsky. In the same year in September, finishing the memories of IN Kramskoy. By mid-1895 completes the sketch of the NN Ge, in early 1996, appends a chapter on VV Vereshchagin.
Amazing warmth, sincerity permeated memories of Alexei Petrovich of Ivan Turgenev, with whom he was a friend of many years. "I saw the last time Ivan Sergeyevich Buzhevale, returning from St. Petersburg, has not yet gone to TREPORT ..." Thank you for coming, Bogolyubov, and tomorrow, perhaps, not be found. I have something to say, but he said quietly: "my song is sung, with the land all over me. It remains to say goodbye to friends "... my heart ached, looking at this giant of the mind, heart, and tears were glistening in my eyes. Here Ivan Sergeevich again asked me: "Farewell, Bogolyubov" and offered me his hand which I kissed. "Why do you do, - he said softly .- You love people and I tried to love them as he could, so love them always, good-bye." I wept and went out. Such a feeling of sadness with me again in the third RAE, when I closed my eyes the mother, the other - when the wife died, and the third, when I said goodbye to Ivan Sergeyevich. " Epistolary, memoirs heritage so extraordinary man worthy of a full resurrection, a deeper study, the more so that his judgments about art, about writers and artists came from the lips of a professional high class.
Deaf silence in the twentieth century about the literary heritage, AP Bogoliubov explained. His views, relationship to the existing public and social institutions of that time did not coincide with the political, ideological doctrines of the past century. In its many creative and social activity, AP Bogolyubov maintained contact with representatives of various circles, including the court, and even emperors. Being a true patriot, adhering to the life of democratic views, he has used such bonds to support the artists, the development of Russian art and public education. It is no exaggeration to say that in this sense he seems to continue a tradition that dates to the work of the great forerunners - Mikhail Lomonosov, who resorted to the relations with crowned heads to help Russia's science.
Living outside the homeland, AP Bogolyubov was her faithful son: "I love Russia and I will always love you. The merits of it, as IS Turgenev, in bringing together the cultures of Russia and European countries are very large. This is evidenced, in particular, its many foreign decorations. To paraphrase the words SP Shevyrov addressed to AS Pushkin, one can say: "Bogolyubov was the plenipotentiary ambassador of Russia to the European Chamber».