Semen Pustovoitov - a master of watercolor

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Sing temples with paintings S. Pustovoitova defiance of oblivion
                       boorishness, war: were there, we ...
                                                                 Alexander Shein
  Semyon Pustovoitov (1921, Odessa - 1995, Novgorod, Russia) graduated from the Odessa Art College average. Interestingly, his thesis "Mikula Selyanovich and Volga is located in the Odessa Archaeological Museum.
    He fought in the Novgorod land and the ancient temples of Novgorod have had a such a strong impression that in 1951 he decided to return here. It was here that he emerged as an outstanding master of watercolor. Pustovoitov SI participant of the First All-Union Exhibition watercolors in 1965 His first solo exhibition was held in 1967 in the city of his youth, in Odessa.
   In the same year he was awarded a medal for the restoration of the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Trinity-St.
    His works are stored in the Novgorod Museum Reserve, in the Odessa Museum and St. Petersburg. Assigned to him was the title of "honorary citizen of Novgorod." Glorified his famous watercolors, which he began writing in the 1970's, when the main theme of his work was an ancient Novgorod. A series of watercolors "Novgorod" is a unique phenomenon, and the best of the sheets embody such energy that the beloved author's thought: an architectural monument is the fate of the nation, its living history and future, becomes apparent.
     Romantic excitement, the tragic-that is characteristic of mature style SI Pustovoitova.

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While 4 of his work:

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More work and a link, where about a lot of information Pustovoitova S.
  http://artru.info/ar/35267/

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On the channel "Culture" was broadcast, devoted to the exhibition of watercolors Pustovoitova the Research Institute for Restoration:
     
http://www.newstube.ru/media/vystavk...a-pustovojtova

"Architectural monuments of the ancient city became head of the theme of creativity Seeds Pustovoitova. He recorded the ancient temples, and create their images. Many of the artists were not only in museums in Russia and Europe, but also in private collections. During the life of many watercolors he gave Novgorod centered culture, "Music of antiquity." Some of these works represented in the exhibition, which opened at the Exhibition Hall of the Research Institute of Restoration. They say, "News kultruy."

Story of the picture to the architectural landscape, from oil painting to watercolors - so formed the artist's career Pustovoitova seeds. He was interested in only one landscape - the types of ancient Novgorod. This city has become his second home. A series of papers he could devote only one church. The monument was the artist a constant object of observation. Semen Pustovoitov wanted to create thousands of papers devoted to the Novgorod churches. The artist did not have the studio and he wrote them from nature. Bad weather could not stop him. In some watercolors seen a drop of rain, melting snow from the divorce, the patterns of frost.

"He was interested in the images of these churches at different times, at different times of day, in different weather conditions. That is, he saw them transforming ", - says the chairman of the Association of Restorers Yamschikov Sawa.

In Novgorod, Simon Pustovoitov was during the Great Patriotic War. In war he was a sapper and receiving a concussion, came for treatment at the hospital, which was not far from the ruined city. First he wrote the ruins of temples, then - the stages of restoration. Many of the watercolors he brought a friend, Vladimir Povetkin, the director of the center of Novgorod musical values, and said, "come in handy." Now, Povetkin takes it as a testament to the artist. "He saw them in person and through the state of the church he sought to portray the human soul. Therefore, there is nothing around. Only the church, nothing more ", - says Vladimir Povetkin.

All my life Simon Pustovoitov declaration of love to Novgorod, and that love was mutual. In 1994 the artist became an honorary citizen of Novgorod the Great. "

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"Svetlana Ivanova, Deputy. Director of the Museum of Art of Novgorod lands: As one of the artists he felt the ancient city of ours, its history through monuments. When you look at them, you realize that they are alive. Living and they breathe. And in them there This here is the whole story, and their whole history, and our history of Novgorod. Just now, after his work and I feel it. And then a series of watercolors on Veliky Novgorod, just as it has brought well-deserved reputation, the name of Semyon Ivanovitch.

For the first time the artist saw the ancient Novgorod, where he lay in ruins. More battles took place around, in one of them, under the Staraya Russa, Semyon received a heavy concussion. Doctors were convinced that not only draw, live a full life, he never will. But the will to live took her. And after his native Odessa School of Art, Semyon Ivanovich returned to the city, who fell in love with the first meeting and for all.

Irina Saveliev (Pustovoitova), daughter of the artist: In 1951, the year when the registered marriage with her mother in Odessa, then he said that no other city for life does not fit, only Novgorod.

Many of those who knew Semyon Ivanovich in life, remember that he was part of our city. There was, perhaps, and one day when he would not have seen on the streets with a pencil and notepad.

Svetlana Ivanova: The skullcap, always with a string bag or hot water bottle, with folders, with sketchbook he kept walking. It can often be seen in the city. He constantly worked in the city, in constant touch, constantly drawing.
The daughter of Semyon Ivanovich said his father was a real hard worker. He even refused to draw a pension, not recognizing the right of a well-deserved rest. And if it happened that he did not write daily, said: shame people for doing nothing.

Irina Saveliev (Pustovoitova) at the reception hospital, he may say, first time we brought him back, we can say the force that it is time in 68 years. And he was asked about year of birth. And he says, so that there is age, work to do. And this motto, the symbol of a life that's it - it's just work, work, work.

And another quality Semyon Ivanovich notice all those around him: the ability to communicate with people, selfless desire to help everyone, even for a stranger, was typical of his whole life. Even in his lifetime became a classic: it works the precious cultural heritage of Novgorod, which is stored in museums and private collections - in life, he remained modest and simple man. "

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Interested in his personal statement about the work and surroundings, as
as a human being responsive, while at the same time, it was fairly straightforward.

"Requiem for grinding buldozeraOn appeared in Novgorod in 1950 and immediately attracted the attention of the townspeople: medium height, stout, with a small brush mustache on his face and rounded unchanged skullcap on his head in the summer or a knitted cap - in the cold. Almost always on his shoulder hung a a box of paints and brushes. This was the artist Semyon Pustovoitov.

He wrote watercolor churches of Novgorod. Painted for academic exhibitions and a small picture-postcard, who generously give away everything familiar. One of them hangs and I have at home. Pustovoitov worked incessantly, lived only creativity, his friends and when they needed his assistance.

Parishes in the works Pustovoitova ringing church bells quiet, floating in the gray-blue sky Novgorod, complain, as people in poverty and squalor. On the hard life of the artist's state of mind becomes aware of his letters to friends, including who lived nearby - across the street or on the other side of the Volkhov.

"... On Monday I want do not want to go with a big board to write sheet of watercolor. It is necessary, call it fate, and then sit not: no one except me will not write back yard and ruins, temples and streets of the old Novgorod , Niagara Falls erased buildings and time. " "We should have to work until the coffin lid is not slammed. All annoying: paint dry, as in sugar land, mountains of papers, and paint watercolors and the" Battle on the Ice "is not and will not force. Alas, this is not old age ..."

"But poverty should be surrounded by the creator. I'm a fool for Novgorod to Kant."

"I gave 55 years of battle against poverty and nits, but now, when before my eyes only some churches of Novgorod, you only need to burn and burn to avoid the stench and smoke, lighting and other examples of selfless service to Novgorod." "I do nothing but churches will not, because they are so, for what you can live and die honestly, and no bastard I do not blame the fact that I was a prostitute in art or cheating on the fashionable topics. Suppose that every scoundrel at twenty below contend with me to write in meter watercolors. "

"Now I run a fever with a sketchbook, pencil in the city, as many wooden houses are demolished everywhere, and Resurrection settlement is about to sing a requiem for grinding bulldozer and fire. We must do everything to sketch, for the destruction of old does not bother anyone."

"Back in the spring, before the trip Leonid Brezhnev in Paris, the idea - the album is my gift of France, and Helsinki. But the first album was on cheap paper, and he went to central interior for export. And the next and landed in France ... So I got 150 rubles. for him. But poverty, misery and lawlessness only give birth to true art, and the remaining breeds hypocrisy. I am happy that my 20 churches already in my life are about Lautrec and Van Gogh, great-grandchildren live with the Impressionists. "

He was never satisfied with his work, always wanted to do something new and better. Over the years, people have become accustomed to the artist, fell in love with, the authorities began paying attention. Forty years after his arrival in Novgorod, in 1991, Semyon Pustovoitova, a member of the Union of Artists, was named an honorary citizen of our city. This title - Peace Award old war veteran, party battles at Staraya Russa, marked a major soldier of valor - the Order of Glory III degree.

At house number 30 on the Great St. Petersburg street where he lived until 1995 Distinguished Artist, a memorial plaque. His creative heritage found refuge in the center of musical antiquities - another artist Vladimir Povetkin. In hundreds of watercolors razdarennyh he lives among us.

Irina Savinov "

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"Profits from overseas picture for the fifth month adorns the wall of the house of Sergei Manteuffel, carefully protected by heavy curtains from direct sunlight. This watercolor 37.5 X52 cm, representing the Church of Nativity of our Anthony's Monastery. For the heart of Veliky Novgorod residents probably more akin to Picasso, because it belongs to the wonderful hands of Novgorod (and even, perhaps, the most Novgorod) Artist Semyon Ivanovich Pustovoitova.

There once was an artist

 Pustovoitov was not just a talented local artist, one of many, he is - a phenomenon particular order, Novgorod legend of the second half of XX century. Since 1951, lived this strange painter altruist in his favorite city, where he seemed to know everyone and where everyone knew him. What is not surprising that when he arrived, Novgorod has only restored after the war, its people. To all the friends, acquaintances and people unfamiliar with the amazing generosity gives away his watercolor Pustovoitov. A plot of the watercolor was always alone - Novgorod Temple.
Artist painted the Novgorod churches and cathedrals have always and in any weather. It is hard to imagine working on watercolors, for example, in the dead of winter or the rain, but - as many witnesses claim - often it does happen sometimes. There was, of course, in his biography and oil paintings, watercolor but it led to the phenomenon of pustovoytovskogo creativity. It Semyon took place as a true artist and unique.
"Unique" - not my definition: another Academician Likhachev, according to Vladimir Ivanovich Povetkin claimed that "the work Pustovoitova not be copied." The Temple in it - not just an architectural structure or part of the urban landscape, the artist was able to raise it to level the image of a generalized and spiritualized. Gallery pustovoytovskih temples - this multi-faceted portrait of Novgorod. Not today and not even the ancient and holy city, an essential portrait of his tragic grandeur.

 Pustovoitov absolutely could not make the pot boil. According to legend, even in a series of works originally doomed to be burned filmmaker Saltykov front of the camera, he put the soul no less than in the other. And the soul that, as already mentioned, he gave the right-left, not sparing, and it was enough not only for the whole Novgorod, but as it turned out, and most foreign countries ...
- Where to evaluate it, the soul, of course, managed appreciated! - Taunted a happy owner of coveted watercolors.

America lifted the embargo!

There would Manteuffel, in fact, should rejoice, not mock: b appreciated the true artist's work - a century that he would not see watercolors.
A remarkable story began this past hot summer, when called friend and said that in America someone is selling a picture Pustovoitova via the Internet.
Strange new technologies Sergey immediately called her son, Dmitry, and the one visited by the network, confirmed the existence of the required site and the availability of it offered for sale watercolor.
- Purchased the picture was on July 5 and August 6 already appeared in this apartment - summed up Mr Ivanov. - They sent her, as I asked, not a twisted roll, and here in this tremendous solid envelope. It was neat, without those horrible stains that are shown on the Internet in the picture.
- Interestingly, many more such sheets is walking all over the world?
- Thousands! And how many of them died - and scary to think!

Buzzing word "Novgorod"

However, the joy of meeting with watercolors due not only one of its artistic merit: Sergei Borisovich for it - and even a precious reminder of a talented man with whom he was personally acquainted. Moreover, a "sign" - an understatement.
- I've known him since 1951, with the first days of his stay in Novgorod - says Manteuffel. - I came here, he immediately went to the museum. They met my father, Boris Konstantinovich, and together they have come to our house in Nikita building where we lived. And from that moment he began to come to us constantly like a man at once became mother, expected, loved, and who always wanted to see and hear.
- Can you say that you were friends?
- I think so. Although the four and a half decades and misunderstandings have occurred without this does not happen. Semyon was older than me by 16 years, he's passed and the war.

I remember in one of the articles on the artist, I discovered the following passage: "During the war, Semyon Pustovoitov was at Novgorod. This was the first meeting with the ancient Novgorod. Architectural monuments of the city made on SI Pustovoitova so impressed that after graduation he decided to come back. " Immediately the question arose, even two. Firstly, what sort of architecture in Novgorod during the war could be "impressed" if all this was swept away clean architecture shelling and bombing? And, secondly, at what stage of the war in Novgorod Pustovoitov could go? In the liberation of the city he is known, did not participate after the release of existing units to enter the city did not make sense. It remains true, even prior to the release, but to visit Novgorod then he might just as a prisoner of war, and this episode in the biography of the artist also seems to be no.
- It's all nonsense, - said Sergey - stuff and nonsense! Semyon, according to his testimony, "crawled on their bellies" from Moscow to the Hill, but in Novgorod until 1951, certainly did not happen. In the 44th he was afraid, terribly wounded, lost everything: vision, speech, hearing, memory - a living corpse! In the hospital under his Kalinin felt hopeless and was transported to his native Odessa, in the house for the insane under the name "Slobodka." But two years later, when all is finally believe that he is doomed for life of the unconscious stagnation, to him suddenly, everything was back: the speech, hearing and vision, and memory and the ability to think. He graduated from art school in which enrolled before the war, and only after that first came to Novgorod.

- What attracted him here because, if not remembered "impressions about the architecture?"
- Impressions of the others were still adolescent: the books on Russian history, epics. By the way, and his graduate work was a large canvas, "Volga and Mikula Selyaninovich" to the epic story. And then one day as an inner voice some called out, as the bell sounded in my head "buzzing word" Novgorod ". I do remember that phrase from his letter.

Letters from those of Sergei Borisovich - the entire archive, not just the precious contents of his own, but also design. From the envelope alone could hold an exhibition devoted to a special genre pustovoytovskogo work - a kind of postal chart. On each envelope with the stylus or pen is drawn Novgorod church, each envelope - a unique, one-of-a-kind work of art. »Alex GEORGE
Sergey B. Manteuffel - Novgorodian at least the third generation: his grandfather, Lt. Col. Konstantin Ernestovich Manteuffel, even in the nineteenth century, served here in the 85th Infantry Regiment Vyborg.
He grew up in a family of Russian intelligentsia: his mother Antonina Mikhailovna - an artist, father of Boris Konstantinovich - a scientist with a wide range of interests (meteorologist, archaeologist, restorer, an ornithologist, a historian, etc.), a member of 32 scientific societies. Both parents have started to work in the Novgorod museum before the war. When it started, along with co-workers prepared to evacuate and were accompanied by the last train to the museum treasures, miraculously escaped from the besieged city.
After three years of famine evacuation of seven Sergey Manteuffel returned to Novgorod. Living with parents in the ruins of the Kremlin has made him a witness post-war reconstruction of the museum. He worked at it, he himself - to this day the exhibition of ancient art and the main iconostasis of St. Sophia Cathedral you can see them restored icons.

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Reality and its artistic embodiment:

1-3 - Church of St. John the Divine in orbit (in Radkovitsah)

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Znamensky Cathedral 17.

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Interesting remarks about his personal work and surroundings, as
being a man responsive, while at the same time, it was pretty straightforward.

"Requiem for grinding buldozeraOn appeared in Novgorod in 1950 and immediately attracted the attention of the townspeople: medium height, stout, with a small brush mustache on his face and continued rounded skullcap on his head in the summer, or a knitted cap - in the cold. Almost always on his shoulder hung a a box of paints and brushes. This was the artist Semyon Pustovoitov.

He wrote watercolor churches of Novgorod. He painted pictures for academic exhibitions and a small picture-postcard, who generously gave away all his friends. One of them, and hangs in my home. Pustovoitov worked incessantly, lived only in creativity, and their friends when they needed his assistance.

Temples in the works Pustovoitova quiet the ringing of bells ringing, floating in the gray-blue sky Novgorod, complaining about how people in poverty and wretchedness. On the hard life of the artist's state of mind becomes aware of his letters to friends, including those who lived nearby - across the street or on the other side of the Volkhov.

"... On Monday, I want do not want to go with a big board to write sheet watercolor. This need is the call of destiny, and then sit not: no one except me will not write the ruins and backyards, churches and streets of the old Novgorod , Niagara Falls erased buildings and time. " "We have to have to work until the coffin lid is not slammed. All annoying: dry ink, as in sugar land, mountains of papers, and writing and watercolor" Battle on the Ice "is not and will not force. Alas, this is not old ..."

"But poverty is to be surrounded by the creator. I in Novgorod Kant's fool."

"I gave 55 years of the battle against poverty and nits, but now, when before my eyes, only some churches of Novgorod, you only need to burn and burn to avoid the stench and smoke, lighting and other examples of selfless service to Novgorod." "I did not do anything other than churches will not, because they are so, for what you can live and die for truth, and no bastard I do not blame the fact that I was a prostitute in art or cheating on the fashionable topic. Let any bastard at twenty degrees of frost to contend with me to write in meter watercolors. "

"Now I run a fever with a sketchbook, pencils in the city, as many wooden houses demolished everywhere, and Resurrection is about to sing a requiem settlement under the grinding bulldozer and fire. We must do everything to sketch, for the destruction of old does not bother anyone."

"In the spring, before traveling to Paris Leonid Brezhnev, there was an idea - the album is my gift of France, and Helsinki. But the first album was on cheap paper, and he went to the central interior for export. And the next, and landed in France That's ... I got 150 rubles. for him. only poverty, but poverty and injustice give birth to true art, and other breeds hypocrisy. I am happy that my 20 churches have in my life are about Lautrec and Van Gogh, inhabited by great-grandchildren Impressionists ".

He was never satisfied with his work, always wanted to do something new and better. Over the years, people have become accustomed to the artist, fell in love with, the authorities began to show attention. Forty years after his arrival in Novgorod, in 1991, Semyon Ivanovich Pustovoitova, a member of the Union of Artists, was named an honorary citizen of our city. This title - Peace Award old war veteran, party battles at Staraya Russa, marked a major soldier of valor - the Order of Glory III degree.

In at number 30 on the Great St. Petersburg street where he lived until 1995 Distinguished Artist, a memorial plaque. His artistic heritage found refuge at the Center for Musical Antiquities - another artist Vladimir Povetkin. In hundreds of watercolors razdarennyh he lives among us.

Irina Savinov "

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"Gains from overseas picture of the fifth month, adorns the wall of the house of Sergei Manteuffel, carefully protected by heavy curtains from direct sunlight. This is a watercolor measuring 37.5 centimeters X52, depicting the Virgin Mary Church of the Nativity of our Anthony's Monastery. For the heart of Veliky Novgorod residents probably more akin to Picasso, because it belongs to the wonderful hands of Novgorod (and even, perhaps, the most Novgorod) Artist Semyon Ivanovich Pustovoitova.

There was an artist

 Pustovoitov was not just a talented local artist, one of many, he is - a phenomenon particular order, Novgorod the legend of the second half of XX century. Since 1951, lived this strange painter unmercenary in his favorite city, where he seemed to know everyone and where everyone knew him. That, however, it is not surprising that when he arrived, Novgorod is only restored after the war, its population. All friends, acquaintances and people unfamiliar with the amazing generosity gave away Pustovoitov his watercolors. A plot of the watercolors was always one - the Temple of Novgorod.
The artist painted the Novgorod churches and cathedrals have always and in any weather. It is hard to imagine working on watercolors, for example, in the dead of winter or the rain, but - how many witnesses say - and this often happened. There was, of course, in his biography and oil paintings, watercolors but it led to the phenomenon of pustovoytovskogo creativity. It Semyon took as an artist, a true and unique.
"Unique" - not my definition: another Academician Likhachev, according to Vladimir Ivanovich Povetkin, argued that "work Pustovoitova can not be copied." The Temple in it - not just an architectural structure or part of the urban landscape, the artist was able to pick it up to the level of the generalized image and spirituality. Gallery pustovoytovskih churches - a many-sided portrait of Novgorod. Do not modern or even ancient, and an essential portrait of the holy city in its tragic grandeur.

 Pustovoitov did not know how to boil the pot. According to legend, even in a series of works originally doomed filmmaker Saltykov the burning front of the camera, he put the soul no less than in the other. And the soul that, as already mentioned, he gave right and left, without sparing, and it was enough not only for the whole Novgorod, but as it turned out, and in most foreign countries ...
- How to evaluate it, the soul, of course managed appreciated! - Taunted a happy owner of coveted watercolors.

America the embargo lifted!

There would be Manteuffel, in fact, ought to rejoice, not ironic: b appreciated the true artist's work - a century watercolors that he would not see.
And it has started an amazing story This past hot summer, when he called friend and said that in America someone is selling a picture Pustovoitova via the Internet.
A stranger to new technologies Sergey immediately called her son, Dmitry, and the one visited by the network, confirmed the existence of the required site and the availability of it offered for sale watercolor.
- Purchased painting was July 5th and August 6th already appeared in this apartment - summed Sergey. - They sent it, as I asked, not a twisted roll, and here in this tremendous solid envelope. It was neat, without those horrible stains that are shown in the picture on the Internet.
- Interestingly, many more of these sheets of the world walks?
- Thousands! And how many of them died - and scary to think!

buzzing word "Novgorod»

However, the joy of meeting with the watercolor is not explained solely by its artistic merit: for Sergei Borisovich it - and even precious reminder of a talented man, with whom he was personally acquainted. Moreover, a "sign" - an understatement.
- I knew him since 1951, from the first days of his stay in Novgorod - Manteuffel says. - Arriving here, he immediately went to the museum. There, he met with my father, Boris Konstantinovich, and together they came to our house, in Nikita building where we lived. And from that moment he began to come to us constantly as a person, immediately became a mother, expected, loved ones, who have always wanted to see and hear.
- Can you say that you were friends?
- I think so. Although the four and a half decades and spat occurred without this does not happen. Semyon was older than me by 16 years, he's passed and the war.

I remember in one of the articles on the artist, I discovered the following passage: "During the war, Semyon Pustovoitov Novgorod was on the ground. This was the first meeting with the ancient Novgorod. Architectural monuments of the city made to the SI Pustovoitova so impressed that after graduation he decided to come back. " Immediately the question arose, even two. First, what sort of architecture in Novgorod during the war could be "impressed" if all this was swept away by the architecture completely shelling and bombing? And, secondly, at what stage of the war in Novgorod Pustovoitov could visit? In the liberation of the city he is known, did not participate after the release of existing units to enter the city did not make sense. It remains true, even prior to the release, but to visit Novgorod, then he might just as prisoners of war, and this episode in the biography of the artist also seems to be no.
- It's all nonsense, - said Sergey - stuff and nonsense! Semyon, according to his testimony, "crawled on their bellies" from Moscow to the Hill, but in Novgorod until 1951, of course, did not happen. In the 44th, he was afraid, terribly wounded, lost everything: vision, speech, hearing, memory - a living corpse! In the hospital under his Kalinin felt hopeless and was transported to his native Odessa, in the house for the insane under the name "Slobodka." But after two years, when everything was finally believed that he was doomed to a lifetime unconscious stagnation, to him suddenly regained: the speech and hearing and vision, and memory, and ability to think. He graduated from art school, which entered into before the war, and only after that first came to Novgorod.

- What attracted him here because, if not remembered 'impressions about the architecture? "
- Impressions of the others were still adolescent: the books on Russian history, epics. By the way, and his graduate work was a large canvas, "Volga and Mikula Selyaninovich" on the epic story. And then one day as some kind of inner voice called out, as the bell sounded in my head "buzzing word" Novgorod ". I do remember that phrase from his letter.

Letters of Sergei Borisovich - the whole file, not just the precious contents of his own, but also design. From the envelope alone could hold an exhibition devoted to a special genre pustovoytovskogo work - a kind of postal chart. On each envelope, a pen or a ballpoint pen drawn Novgorod church, each envelope - a unique, one-of-a-kind work of art. »Alex GEORGE

Sergey B. Manteuffel - Novgorodian at least the third generation: his grandfather, Lt. Col. Konstantin Ernestovich Manteuffel, even in the nineteenth century, served here in the 85th Infantry Regiment Vyborg.
He grew up in a family of Russian intelligentsia: his mother, Antonina M. - painter, father of Boris Konstantinovich - a scientist with a wide range of interests (meteorologist, archaeologist and restorer, ornithologist, ethnographer, etc.), a member of 32 scientific societies. Both parents have started to work in the Novgorod museum before the war. When she started, along with co-workers prepared to evacuate the train and accompanied the latter to the museum treasures, miraculously escaped from the besieged city.
After three years of famine evacuation of seven Sergey Manteuffel returned to Novgorod. Living with parents in the ruins of the Kremlin made him a witness to the post-war revival of the museum. Worked in it, he himself - to this day the exhibition of ancient art and in the main iconostasis of St. Sophia Cathedral you can see them restored icons.

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Reality and art as it is realized:

1-3 - The Church of St. John the Evangelist in the orbit (in Radkovitsah) 14.

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Cathedral of the Sign 17.

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Church of St. Simeon the God-receiver 15.


The paintings in the church, not frescoes, painted in tempera them.
A total of 400 shows the walls of the church of the saints-kind calendar.