By the 50 th anniversary of artistic activity KE Makovsky in 1910

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in the journal "Okonek number 50., 1910, article" Autobiography for "Got a light",

, he recalls: Impressions of my early childhood and adolescence are inextricably linked with the figure of my father, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky . And so it was interesting, charming old man in the background of Moscow forties. I remember his coat, his smile, shaved lips, his inspired eyes ... This official court administration, who received eight hundred rubles a year, was fanatically devoted to art.
He always got up at six o'clock in the morning and before the service, in winter when the lamp, studied drawing, copying the great masters who worshiped all his life. Those that came out of me, I feel obligated itself not the academy, not the professors, but only to my father.