Gajdukevich Mikhail Z.
He was born in Bessarabia, he was only seven years old when a family with nine children moved to live in Siberia. His father, a farmer, a laborer, initially taught children to read and write himself, in 12-13 years they have been sent from the village to earn money. So it was with Michael. He became assistant clerk, and soon was transferred to Semipalatinsk, where in 1914 - 1916 years, participated in a secret revolutionary group. Someone gave the underground, and Gaidukevich with friends fled to the Altai. In 1918 he joined the squad Shchorsa fought against Kolchak, and later escaped from his torture chambers in Mongolia. In 1919 - m back in Semipalatinsk, then for the first time participated in an art exhibition.
Emboldened by success, Gajdukevich went to study in Moscow, but only the autumn of 1923 became a student in the class VKhUTEMAS Pavel Kuznetsov, where he studied drawing, painting. He also attended classes at the Alexandra Exter, technology, materials he taught Michael Kurzin. Spring 1923 Gaidukevich, Kurzin and Elena Korovay made foot journey to the Crimea - painting, arranging exhibitions and speaking before an audience in spas, parks and clubs. In May 1924 the first Gajdukevich traveled to Turkmenistan, and a year later - on Uzbekistan: he visited while in Bukhara, Urgench and Kokand. Impressions from the "new" East reflected in numerous full-scale landscapes. And 1926 Gajdukevich lived in Rostov-on-Don, worked extensively in watercolor, charcoal, pastels, and sanguine, and both dabbled in lithography.
Since 1927 the artist worked on the construction Turksib as an officer in the technical department and teacher of the school construction foremen. The base of the gigantic construction site was located in Frunze, but in 1928-m an artist and his family moved to Alma-Ata, where he was invited to teach drawing and aesthetics in a local university. In 1931, the family moved to the capital. A year later Gajdukevich was appointed artist at the Moscow Museum of Ethnology, entered into a creative union, many urban landscapes 1932 - 1936 period are made with watercolor and ink. In 1938 he was arrested on a tip-off and soon shot.
Alternative Biography:
Genus. 1890, c. Akkerman, Bessarabia, Russian, b /n, artist, work under the contracts. Rassstrelyan 10/06/1938. Place of burial: Butovo.
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