Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets
Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets | |
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Born | 1816 Dadi-Yurt |
Died | 1846 |
Pyotr Zakharovich Zakharov-Chechenets (
Biography
In 1819, during the
At the age of seven, Pyotr was adopted by
The boy showed talent in painting and Pyotr Yermolov tried to send him to the
Eventually, at the age of 17, Zakharov entered the Academy. He graduated in 1835 with a diploma of Free Artist and was recommended for a scholarship to study art in Italy. The trip might have been helpful for both his artistic growth and for his health, which had begun to show signs of
Zakharov soon became a fashionable portraitist. His clients included the favorite daughter of Nicholas I,
On 14 January 1846, Zakharov married, but their happiness was short. On 13 June 1846, his wife died from tuberculosis. Zakharov died from the same disease a few months later.[4]
Many works of Zakharov-Chechenets are kept in the Tretyakov Gallery and in the Russian Museum. The Art Museum in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny also used to have many of his works including his Selfportrait, and Portrait of I.F. Ladygensky. In 1995 during the First Chechen War the Grozny Museum was heavily damaged and the paintings were all but destroyed. Since 1995, they are being restored at the Grabar Restoration Center in Moscow.[1]
Works
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Self-portrait as a young man
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Portrait ofAleksey Petrovich Yermolov, 1842
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Children of Pyotr Yermolov, 1839
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Portrait of historian Timofey Granovsky, 1845
Memory
- Pyotr Zakharov is depicted on the sketch of Michael Scotty "The Armenian Nerses and the Chechen Zakharov" (1836).[6]
- Zakharov is depicted in the painting by landscape painter Grigory Chernetsov "Parade on October 6, 1831 in St. Petersburg." The list of persons who were to be depicted in the picture was approved personally by Emperor Nicholas I. In the subsequently published list of characters from among the spectators, Zakharov appeared under the number 204.[7]
- A fictional pastoral painting titled Empty Pasture in Afternoon accredited to Zakharov features prominently in Anthony Marra's book The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories.
- Before the First Chechen War in Grozny worked the Chechen-Ingush Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after Pyotr Zakharov.
- In 2016 the name of Pyotr Zakharov was awarded to the Grozny children's art school No. 2.[8]
- October 5, 2017 in Grozny opened a park named after Pyotr Zakharov.[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b Grozny Art Museum Archived 2007-04-25 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ^ a b Biography of famous Chechens Archived 2007-04-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ^ a b c Zakharov-Chechenets article on the Chechen Cultural Figures site
- ^ a b c d Article P.Zakharov on the Russian History in the mirror of visual arts site Archived 2007-02-27 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ^ Pyotr Zakharov[permanent dead link] in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian)
- ^ Маркина Людмила (2011). "Работы художника Петра Захарова в собрании Третьяковской галереи" (PDF). tg-m.ru. Третьяковская галерея. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
- ^ Шахбиева М. Х. Пётр Захаров-Чеченец — известный и неизвестный // Дош : magazine. — 2016. — No 2. — p. 62—64.
- ^ "О присвоении детской художественной школе города Грозного имени академика Петра Захарова" (PDF). grozgorduma.ru. 2016-12-23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-29. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
- ^ Хава Кадиева (2017-10-05). "В Грозном открылся Сквер им. Петра Захарова". chechnyatoday.com. Чечня сегодня. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
External links
- Media related to Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets at Wikimedia Commons