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A separate issue Argos-sculpture Georgii Lavrov (1895-1991) /Georges Lavroff.

Incidentally, in the base map Artinvestment.ru date of death of the sculptor is indicated wrong - "1961" , must be corrected.

Each year, thousands of Krasnoyarsk and guests attended the memorial house-museum VISurikova. And the first thing that greets them at the entrance to the estate - a bust of our great countryman. If you ask the guide, who is the author of the monument, you will answer - Lavrov, but in vain will you seek any information about the life and work of the sculptor. In the regional literature about him just mentioned. And this is about an artist who has participated in more than 40 exhibitions, including 16 exhibitions in Paris and more than 20 in Moscow. His works are in museums in London and Paris, as well as in Moscow, Kiev, Pskov, Barnaul, Biisk, Cheboksary, and other cities.

How could it happen that about him, born, uchivshemsya, working in our province, almost nothing is known? The proposed article to some extent responsible for this issue. And start with the appropriate memories of the sculptor's wife - Valentina Pimenovna:

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«In 1895 in a large family of the artist, portrait painter, icon painter Dmitry Ivanovich Lavrov was born the tenth child, George. Father Georgii was another VISurikova, both born in 1848, went to learn from Krasnoyarsk in 1868 Surikov - in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Mitya was sent by the diocese in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, near Moscow, where Dmitry was excellent training, became a master of icon painting, art restorer, painted ceilings, walls, manufactured church utensils, cutting the iconostasis made of wood, gold.

Overcoming a long way from Krasnoyarsk to the capital, Surikov often wrote to his mother Praskovia Feodorovna and her brother Alexander. In letters repeatedly mentioned DI Lavrov. So, December 15, 1868 Vasily Ivanovich wrote: "Yesterday, 14-th day of, I went with Lavrov in Tomsk. Go we are very happy with Lavrov - all laughing, he walked behind me as a nurse: wraps the road, pouring tea, well, short, gentle and good fellow. "

Mother Georgii, Feoktistov Gavrilovna, dedicated her life to raising children. The family were twelve, after George was born a girl and a boy.

George began his education with the Krasnoyarsk religious school, where he sat at the same desk with our prominent compatriot AI Nesterov (1895-1979) - a future academician, vice-president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor. Strong male friendship bound them for life.

Ahead was a study in the seminary. Thus began a creative way Georgii. Things were so. In 1911, Russia celebrated the 200 anniversary of the birth of the great Russian scientist, poet, painter, MV Lomonosov Moscow State University. Not spared by this event and the seminary. Rector NP Astashevsky instructed his pupil Lavrov copy with a small engraving portrait of Lomonosov, who was posted in the hall. The gathered crowd appreciated the work of sixteen young men. The following day the rector gave him a letter of recommendation addressed to DI Karatanova, who was drawing in the Krasnoyarsk evening studio drawing and painting. Three years Lavrov worked under the guidance of this talented teacher, serious and attentive to the students.

In 1915, George D., coming out of the seminary, decided to continue his artistic education. Without physically unable to go to school in Petrograd or Moscow, Lavrov entered the Medical Faculty of the Tomsk University, to thoroughly study the anatomy, so you want a true artist. At the same time he was three years build their skills in classes of drawing and painting of the Society of Tomsk artists.

The 1917 revolution Lavrov took without hesitation took the side of Soviet power. During the Civil War fought in one of the guerrilla groups against the regime of Kolchak (according Bijskogo regional museum in 1919-1920. He was in the ranks of the guerrilla unit 6 th Division, mountain steppe Aleisk Arkhipova). After the Civil War, worked for some time in Moscow in the "Windows of satire GROWTH" under the leadership of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Mikhail Cheremnykh and Stavropol, where he created the monuments A. Ostrovsky and Sverdlov.

Since 1923, in Moscow - a member of a trade union of artists (RALIS) and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AHRR). In those years working on a bust of Lenin. By order of the Museum of the Revolution created a sculpture of Lenin with the book. Good relations with Lavrov were formed with the People's Commissar of Education AVLunacharsky, on the recommendation by George D. March 27, 1927, left for creative business trip to France. In Paris, a young sculptor examines the legacy of world art. Often a long time and works in the atelier of such masters as A. E. Bourdelle, A. Mayol, C. Despi.

In Paris, Lavrov met with the famous Russian artist Konstantin Korovin. However, creative and human friendship between them arose. Too different were their views.

Bright page of Parisian life Georgii began his meeting with the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova in 1930. The value of the work of the sculptor in the fact that they are made from nature itself and approved by the ballerina. Survived her statement about the first sketches of the artist: "It is interesting to me, no one has ever sculpted. Say what you want to work? I will do everything for you, everything, everything! "Pavlov ordered to issue Lavrov pass to all her performances and rehearsals, which enabled the sculptor to work on its way directly into the theater. She sat in his studio in the Latin Quarter.

"My Creations - remember George D. - in the short months of working with Anna Pavlova, of course, not all are completed, not all the same, but keep warm memories of a wonderful actress and a wonderful man." And further: "During the funeral of Anna Pavlova in January 1931 on the stage of" Grand Opera "was a bust of a ballerina. Looking at him, many wept. Several works from this series were brought to Moscow. "Dragonfly" was placed in the Tretyakov Gallery, "The Dying Swan", "Giselle" and "Odette" - in the Central Museum im.A.A.Bahrushina. For eight years stay in France Lavrov was an excellent vocational school, dealing with the outstanding masters of Europe.

When George D. in 1935 he returned to Moscow, he found himself without shelter, without a studio, without facilities for storing imported from France works. For assistance, please contact the Deputy Chairman of People's Commissars of the USSR J. E. Rudzutak. Was given a workshop in the house N 9 for the former Vetoshniy lane.

In the period from 1935 to 1938 Lavrov went on active creative work, including those created sculptural portraits of public figures of the time: J. E. Rudzutak, Commissar of Education Bubnov. Both in 1937 and were declared enemies of the people and shot. Created by the sculptor of the above, obviously, played a negative role in his fate. In his memoirs, he wrote: "In the night from 15 to 16 September 1938 in imperious knock at the door. To my question: "Who?" - Followed a strict answer: "Open up!" I obeyed the request. In the apartment included two young men with rifles, in soiled work clothes, and two caretaker - concept.

I presented the warrant of arrest with a large sprawling signature blue pencil "Beria".

The search lasted until morning. Everything was turned upside down. Documents, letters, diaries, business papers and savings bank - all taken away. In the "funnel" I was taken to the Lubyanka. Then a truck with the words "Bread" flown in Butyrskaya prison. In Butyrskaya I was in the chamber, which had 156 inmates, many of them lying on the benches or on the floor under the bunks and had a jaded view. The interrogation of some of them lasted more than a year. It was the Soviet intelligentsia: scientists, engineers, plant managers, government agencies, commanders of the army staff, writers, inventors ...

After long, grueling interrogation (interrogation lasted from October 1938 to February 1939) was declared a special meeting of the sentence: five years of corrective labor camps. GD in Lavrov accused of involvement in the anti-Soviet terrorist organization and plotting the assassination of Stalin.

A few months later was convicted in Magadan, where he was sent to the mine "Scout" to extract gold. Hell, what a mine, he later recalled: "Living and working conditions of prisoners were so heavy that few who survived more than three months. I, on the nature of a healthy man, and a half months of work on the section "Hidden" on the verge of life and death. Like many other prisoners in the first days of sick with scurvy and dropsy. My body, from head to waist, represented by a skeleton covered with skin, and from waist to toe - a bag filled with water ... I not only physically work, but to walk was not able to. "

Saved him that he was transferred to the camp point to Orotukan "night watchman kultbazy, using as a sculptor in construction work.

In the spring of 1941, he directed the construction of Magadan House of Culture. There, on the parapet, Lavrov completed four three-meter statue: "miner", "borer", "partisan", "Red Army". He also created busts of Lenin, Stanislavsky, Ostrovsky, Gorky.

After the defeat of Hitler's troops near Moscow he was charged in the foyer of the DC to create a sculpture on this theme group. As a result of hard work had been constructed three-meter zhelezotsementnaya sculptural composition "The epic". Political Department "Dalstroi" put forward it to the Stalin Prize. However, the idea did not consider because of the fact that "the author of this work was repressed and the enemy of the people."

November 29, 1943 The long awaited release, but without the right to exit from the Kolyma River, and the spring of 1945 on the orders of the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR AP Zavenyagin Lavrov was sent to Krasnoyarsk. It was supposed to bring him to the manufacture of products from metals mined in Norilsk.

In Krasnoyarsk, in 1945, George D. met with the artist Valentina Pimenovna Soldatova, who soon became his wife. Life has become relatively prosperous, which could not affect his work. They were executed two major work, a bust VISurikova (to 100 anniversary of his birth), set in the manor house museum and a monument to soldiers of the 31-th Siberian Rifle Regiment, rebelled against Kolchak and killed during the suppression of uprisings white in July 1919 in Krasnoyarsk.

Krasnoyarsk period of life ended reference to the southern edge (in 1948 issued a decree banning former political prisoners to live in secure cities, and Krasnoyarsk was established). Despite the amenities, and the sculptor continued to work. In 1950 he created a monument to the Civil War guerrilla PE Schetinkina, erected in the center of Minusinsk. Ibid, near the museum of local lore, in 1951 the bust of its founder - Nikolai Mikhailovich Martyanova.

In October 1954, Minusinsk Lavrov received the message: "The case for the prosecution Lavrov Georgii, who was convicted of the NKVD special meeting July 11, 1939, reviewed by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court April 10, 1954. Resolution of the special meeting on July 11, 1939 in respect Lavrov GD withdrawn and the case terminated production.


Returned to Moscow on Nov. 5, 1954 troubles began on the living and creatively-labor unit. Then give the floor Georgii: "Ahead was a normal creative life. Once again, I felt like a full member of Moscow Union (Moscow branch of the Union of Artists. - YB). Our joy knew no boundaries. While living in Moscow, the sculptor has created a significant number of works, including a memorial in memory of miners killed in accidents in Montenegro in 1931 at the mine number 8 of the trust "Hakasugol. (Constructed in 1961)

In 1984, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR for services in the field of fine arts, he was awarded the honorary title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

Died GD Lavrov in Moscow in 1991. September 6 in the newspaper Moscow artist "was published obituary, in which, inter alia, said:" George D. was a good, clean, charming man, his zest for life, kindness, a clear mind could not crush the hardships that fell to his lot, he lived a long life with dignity and fair ».

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http://www.memorial.krsk.ru/Public/00/20011207.htm

And the price of the sculpture.
Spread: from 5 tons per euro pheasants to 25 tons per euro girl with deer.
By the way, it already bought during my stay at the Salon. : D
Veli interested conversation, so let's say ...