Moscow Association of artists of the ENVIRONMENT

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The name C. A. Gilyarovskogo is due not only to literature, but also painting, applied art. The love for art was one of the strongest passions Gilyarovskogo. When C. A. Gilyarovsky came in literature and art, leading role in Russian painting played the Wanderers.
Gilyarovsky was a regular and active member of the art group "Environment" C. E. Staravina, and very interesting wrote about it in "Moscow and Muscovites".
The Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich - "King reporters,
portrait by S. Malyutina (1915)

Smorawinski "environment" . Circle began its existence in the 80-ies in the Moscow Society of art lovers, then the singer K. S. Shilovsky and really flashed about in the mid 90-ies in B. E. Staravina. His house was wide open for people in the arts. On Wednesday came the artists, various aesthetic beliefs, all who value the society of fellows. They sit at a large table, painted, wrote watercolor. Drawings often played the lottery. Come on "environment" artists, writers, and patrons. Some of them bought any lottery tickets in batches and became the owners of sketches, even complete songs that belonged to Peru or brush Levitan, K. Korovin, Polenov, Nesterov. Here you can hear Chaliapin singing, monologue artist Lena, the game is brilliant pianists. At twelve o'clock in the morning sounded the Gong, calling an end to the proceedings. Noisy society had begun the meal, raised the toast. A regular "media" was the writer Gilyarovsky, "uncle Giljaj", he wrote impromptu - sharp, humorous poems, songs. Was humorous anthem "environments", which was when he uttered not one already toast.

Stepanov A. C. Portrait Century Staravina. The coal. The state Tretyakov gallery the State Tretyakov gallery