Charles was born on December 23 Bryullov.

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Charles was born on December 12 Bryullov (December 23 - New Style), 1799 in St. Petersburg, the son of a famous master of wood carving and miniature painter Pavel Ivanovich Brullo, a descendant of one of the French Huguenots. They are hundreds of thousands fled from France after a 1685 Louis XIV signed the decree on the abolition of the Edict of Nantes, opening the era of brutal persecution of Protestants in France.
 Artistic Bryullov fate was predetermined, as it were by the very fact of his birth - PI Brullo was an artist in the third generation, and all his sons (number five, Carl - the third in order of seniority) passed through the Academy of Fine Arts, where, incidentally, taught himself and Paul I. , and devoted himself to art. Carl grew up a very sickly child and up to seven years old, almost did not rise from his bed. However, his father - a staunch Mason, who did not know what idleness - was engaged in its partisan upbringing by requiring that every day, drawing the allotted number of human figures and horses - in case of non-job boy remained without food. Once angry Pavel Ivanovich so badly hit by Charles for some petty offense, that he remained a lifelong deaf in one ear.
 In 1809, Charles along with his brother Alexander was "no balloting" the Academy of Fine Arts (pre-reform Academy began training its pupils from childhood). It soon became clear that among classmates Carl has no equal - during his studies, he was collecting awards "handful", amazing mentors of their abilities.
 Triumphantly graduated from the Academy in 1821 with a certificate I level, was the first retired Bryullov the newly founded Society for the Promotion of private artists (OPH) and in 1822 for his money went to Italy. Along with him, too, as a pensioner of OPH, was driving his brother Alexander - Charles insisted on it. Before his departure from the high resolution image of the Emperor Alexander I, brethren Brullo "Russified" her name, adding to its end "in". Almost a year they moved slowly through the whole of Europe, on the road visiting Riga, Konigsberg, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Venice, Padua, Verona, Mantua, Bologna and finally found themselves in Rome - the ultimate purpose of the trip.

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For over 12 years Bryullov spent in Italy, took place here as an original artist. These years were marked by numerous high-profile and tragic events in the European and Russian life, marked by a desperate struggle in the art of classicism and romanticism. Indirectly involved in it and Bryullov, although the main "battle" turned in Paris, where the then pillars classicism of David and his student Ingres "attacked" the young painters, who became the leader of Delacroix. Alas, in Paris after the Russian Young Artists of the 1789 revolution did not start - they are quite numerous, the colony settled in Rome.
 Bryullov, enchanted the brilliant painting of the Renaissance, persistently sought its own path. On the academic subjects he quickly said goodbye. Loud "sounded" work "Italian Morning", "Girl, gathering grapes in the vicinity of Naples," "Italian Midday", "horsewoman," the author put them on a par with major European artists, at the same time causing a misunderstanding on the part of OPH, which gave Brullov means to live in Italy. The artist, a very sharp on the actions, in 1829, officially broke off relations with OPH, abandoning pensionerstva. That was another reason - in 1827 he became interested in the tragic story of Roman life, was commissioned to create a large painting "The Last Days of Pompeii" from the Russian wealthy Demidov.
 This picture, in which creation took six years and was a response to the master on the issues that worried at that time painters. In it he tried to reconcile classicism and romanticism. The result of this attempt shocked his contemporaries - "The Last Days of Pompeii" awaited triumphant march across Europe. Shown in the Paris Salon of 1834 (along with "The Martyrdom of St. Simforiona" Ingres, "Algerian Women" Delacroix, "etc.), this work has received a gold medal. When it exhibited in 1834 at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (AA Demidov presented a picture of the Russian czar), then it started this pilgrimage.
 By that time, and Bryullov was about to Russia - being summoned there by the Emperor Nicholas I. In Italy, he left a lot of love - his fiancee, Countess P. Samoilov, was, in fact, the first of the emancipated Russian woman - about her love stories were legendary among the then public. Judging from the surviving correspondence, it was a passionate feeling: "My boyfriend Brishka - wrote the Countess artist - I love you more than I can shall declare, I embrace you and to the grave will be sincerely committed to you." Yuri Samoilov became a regular model Bryullov, she embodied the best of his portraits.
 In Russia, Bryullov greeted with glee. Magnificent reception in his honor (with wreaths, speeches and poems) were constructed in Odessa, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The artist became close friends with the best representatives of Russian culture - Pushkin Baratynsky, Zhukovsky, Shchepkin, Tropinin, etc. Especially warm friendship arose between him and M. Glinka (with whom he met in Italy) and N. puppeteers. Bryullov tortured and some concerns. Pushkin wrote to his wife in 1835: "Bryullov went to St. Petersburg, reluctantly, afraid of climate change and slavery." Concerns have been more than justified - Nicholas I, excited by European attitudes, energetically, "crack down", making meaningless the concept of "public life".
 The relationship between the emperor and Bryullov did not work - largely because of the freedom-loving master. Surprising: the artist did not write a portrait of the king, and very cleverly cleverly refusing incoming proposals - on this account there is no one story. Bryullov instigated a great historical picture of "The Siege of Pskov, the Polish King Stefan Batory" and turned it in his own words, "Annoyance from Pskov" - tormented her over 8 years, he left her. In the Academy, where Briullov was promoted to associate professor in the studio bryullovskuyu lined up - among his disciples we find Chistyakov, Shevchenko (which he bought out of captivity, writing and selling a profitable portrait of Zhukovsky), Fedotov, Ge.
 Personal life Bryullov was unfavorable. He fell in love with a young talented pianist Emily Timm, daughter of the mayor of Riga. The proposal was accepted artist, but on the eve of the wedding bride groom confessed that, giving an unnatural passion of his father, a longtime resident with him. Still young in 1839 were married. It soon became clear that Emily's father saw this marriage as a cover for the continuation of specific relations with his daughter. Two months later the marriage was annulled the highest permission. Bryullov oslavlen was all over the world. Secular "mob" showed his true colors - gossip followed one after another, the doors of many houses were closed for Bryullov.
 By the end of the 1840s the artist increasingly ill, particularly annoyed him a bad heart. In 1849 he went abroad for treatment - Prussia through Poland, Belgium, England and Portugal - Madeira Island. A year later Bryullov, visiting Spain, moved to his beloved Rome. There he made friends with the family of Angelo Tittoni, Italian revolutionary, comrade Garibaldi - in fact, becoming a member of this family.
 In June 1852 the Russian ambassador in Rome reported in St. Petersburg: "I have the honor to notify about the death of KPBryullov, followed 11 this June in the town Mantsiana, 30 miles from Rome, where he went to use there the mineral waters ... He was that day in the morning on his feet, ate as usual, when suddenly become with him choke, and three hours later he breathed his last, in a perfect memory ... " He was buried at the Roman cemetery Bryullov Monte Testaccio.