FE Burov

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Burov FE (1843-1895)

Muscovite by birth, FE Burov the last ten years of life lived in Samara, where he was so necessary for Russia all the time in educational activities in the field of culture and education. He created in Samara school of painting and drawing, which successfully worked for five years and closed with the death of its founder.

Sam FE Burov was a strong painter. He studied at the Art Academy from 1859 to 1869, where his progress from year to year can be schematically represented as follows: in 1863, received a small silver medal and in 1865 awarded a freelance artist and has been awarded a large silver medal in 1866 - a small silver medal in the 1867 -- a large silver medal. Artist drawn to books and historical subjects, so many of his works were a kind of large illustrations to editions of the time, illuminating national history. Receiving in 1873 the title of class artist of the second degree, FE Burov prepared for the 1885 painting "Shlisselburgsky Prisoner" (the novel by GP Danilevskii Mirovich, for which he was awarded the title of class artist of the first degree. By this time the artist was well known for the exhibitions were exhibited at the academic work: A scene in prison (1870) ( the novel by A. Tolstoy Silver Prince), Porter (1872), Turk (1873), Emperor Peter I visited in a cell of the fortress of Prince Gagarin St. Matthew (1880), etc. He turned painter, and to historical events, contemporary with whom he was. spoof called "scene from the Bulgarian-Turkish war, the artist, unfortunately, failed to finish.

Among the pupils at the school FE Burov in Samara were and talented students, among them - Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin, Konstantin Gorbatov, Vasily F. Orekhov.

Fedor Burov. Portrait KN Voronov. 1890

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This is a large canvas FE Burov "Shlisselburgsky prisoner" (Visit John Antonovich Peter III in Schliisselburg Fortress 1885), written in the novel GP Danilevskii "Mirovich.

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Cyril, it is known that at the end of the Academy of Arts FE Burov visited Paris. And even painted a portrait of Turgenev. Did any of the graduates from the Academy he went to Paris?

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rolls, I do not know.

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Two Samara anecdote:
1. FE Burov, deciding to save the "cultural work" of an alcoholic former student of Peter Ivanovich, drew him to teaching students of literature, art classes.

In between reading Tolstoy guys could ask the new teacher issues.
- Peter Ivanovich, and astronomers, you seen them?
- Vidal.
- True, they are all the sky visible? Nod.
- A month too see?
- Month quite visible.
- And what it shows, Piotr Ivanovich?
- Mountains and valleys are different.
- A cow go there?
-No, cows and people suffocated! .. Lads to see if any of you dime?

2. And this about his student:
Seventeen-year-Petrov-Vodkin once got in Samara theater. Receiving pass-out, he climbed to the top. Glancing down, where it was dark, as in the well, Kuzma sadly thought: "Do not theater, but a prison." Soon the gallery was filled with young people. Snapping nuts. Someone slammed the stopper and opened a bottle of cabbage ... On stage was a performance, and in the gallery shrieked the girl, lingering smell of sweat and beer. Shaken Kuzma jumped, but he abruptly pulled the jacket, and his voice said loudly: "What is hindering the theater to use?"

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From the academic lives of young artists:
"In 1868 Kuindzhi, finally, in the Academy ...
At that time, formed a circle of academics, students. It includes Kuindzhi, Repin, V. Vasnetsov, Makarov, Burov ... Young people gather in the evening in the eating-house "Mazanihi" on the fifth line of Vasilevsky Island. There are endless debates and passionate arguments about art and its problems. On particularly busy debating the question of genius, given various definitions and delineation of concepts of genius and talent ....
Kuindzhi are poor, interrupting from hand to mouth. The only income affords him all the same retusherstvo. But, according to Ilya Repin, never in my most difficult days of the material needs of one of his comrades did not hear from Kuindzhi single complaint, not a note of gloom ... Some concentrated, proletarian pride closes his mouth ... One day Kuindzhi disappears from the Academy; not see it and have Mazanihi. All are wondering consider him to leave home. This confusion lasts about a year. After this time is one day in the Academy Burov:
Brothers, and yet Kuindzhi here ... I find him! ..
- What? Where? How?
It turns out, Burov, going by chance in one photo, where he found Arkhip Ivanovich as a charge of poses, backgrounds, etc. Viktor Vasnetsov went immediately to the specified address and not without some difficulty, but nevertheless persuaded recalcitrant "Greek" to return to painting, to a friendly environment ... Soon Kuindzhi start to put on exhibition at the Academy. "
(Arkhip Kuinji. Bio-characteristic MP Nevedomsky)

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