Surikov Biography Children

Blogs are the post of reader Gossip, you can start writing on the site and you are on January 24, since the birth of one of the main Russian artists Vasily Surikov. There are not so many about the personal life of the artist Vasily Surikov, but the amazing story of his first and only love in life will not leave anyone indifferent. It was a tragic love story that gave rise to the masterpiece of world painting.

When Vasily Surikov met Elizabeth Shar, he was 29 years old, and the girl happened in the Catholic Church, where Vasily went to listen to the sound of the organ. And despite the fact that the young artist was 10 years older, during the meetings he blushed and embarrassed, like a young man. Elizabeth was born in Russia, but in her upbringing she was a real Parisian. Her father French Augustus Share, met a Russian-girl, a relative of the Decembrist Svistunov, in Paris and married her.

After some time, the family moved to St. Petersburg, where they had five children. The customs and orders in the family were preserved by French, and the daughters stood out among the peers with special Parisian chic, although the family was not particularly rich. In Russian, Lisa spoke with a slight French accent that gave her Sharm. The ball introduced herself as Lilya and admitted that she likes this family nickname more name.

Young people liked each other and began to meet, and after some time the artist made a proposal to the girl. Only one thing scared: how the bride’s parents react to this, since he was just the son of a simple Cossack from Siberia, and she was a hereditary nobleman. But the bride’s father had nothing against. He could not marry a ball yet: not that status. At first, something was to be achieved in life.

After graduating from his studies, Surikov received large orders and went to work with his head. Vasily went to Moscow to paint the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The separation was painful. Surikov came to St. Petersburg on Sundays, an hour or two wandered with Lily in the summer garden, and then returned to Moscow, which without his beloved seemed to him a desert. Having finished work in the temple, Surikov married Lily.

For only a month to prepare for the wedding. He was afraid that a sophisticated little daughter-in-law would not have to like a harsh Siberian Cossack. The couple lived in love and harmony. Both loved music, literature, they were not bored together, and in the early years their life flowed quite secluded. Surikov was looking for new plots, Elizabeth, despite the external fragility, independently coped with the farm.

Lily lived with her husband’s interests, not offending the fact that he devoted much more time to work than her - a young wife. There were no big wealth in the house, but Lily created comfort of anything. Vasily was dizzy with joy for his wife, who turned from a spoiled young lady into a real mistress of the house. Lily freed her husband from all household chores and learned to save money.

Vasily was really happy - next to him the one who understood him forgave full immersion in work. The happy couple had two girls - Olya and, two years later, Elena. They never separated, even when the girls were very small, they traveled together. Surikov joked that "all mine is always with me." The only one sometimes overshadowed the happiness of the family: Elizabeth had a sick heart: but the lovers believed that everything would be fine.

Surikov V. Portrait of Elizabeth Augustovns Surikova, the wife of the artist. The inspired Surikov worked without turning his hands. “Morning of the Strelets execution” and “Boyar Morozov” were written, recognition and financial independence came. The artist’s life was overshadowed only by one circumstance - the innate heart disease of his wife, who had rheumatism early, and she even had to endure a simple cold.

Yes, and Vasily himself almost died of pneumonia in the first year after marriage. Surikov knew that he survived only thanks to his beloved Lily, not a step away from him around the clock. Portrait of Elizabeth Augustovns Surikova, wife of the artist E years canvas, oil. The museum-estate of V. Surikov barely recovering, the artist took up work. He wrote many female images from his wife, calling her "ideal model." He created several and her portraits.

But still, the main creation can be considered the “Menshikov in Berezov” canvas, which is considered a fatal picture. In this picture, Surikov wanted to convey the tragedy of the individual who fell in the heights of power. Elizabeth became a model for one of Menshikov's daughters. She sits on a low bench at her father's feet, wrapped in a fur coat. She is sick and soon the great nobleman Alexander Menshikov will die, with her own hands will hammer her grave in frozen earth.

At that time, both the Augustian Elizabeth herself had a difficult attack, and the artist, looking at the exhausted wife, saw her daughter Menshikov in her. Then they could not have imagined that in some mystical sense the fate of Maria, who did not endure life in Siberia, would respond to the fate of Elizabeth. It was five years before her death. The eldest daughter of Menshikov, written from the artist’s wife.

Author: Vasily Surikov "Menshikov in Berezovo."Vasily Surikov soon the canvas was completed, and the painter with his wife and daughters went abroad for the money made out for him. They had long dreamed of watching Europe together and hoped that the Mediterranean air would help to improve the health of Elizabeth Augusta. Lily really after the trip was slightly strengthened.

Vasily was very bored in his native Siberia, and then the Surikov decided to visit Krasnoyarsk. The artist would like his mother to get acquainted with her daughter -in -law and granddaughters. However, horses move through the whole country lasted one and a half months only in one direction. And despite the fact that they traveled in the summer, the harsh Siberian climate was reflected in the health of Elizabeth Augustovnov in the most unfavorable way.

The mother of the artist. Vasily Surikov and in the parental house what the artist was so afraid of. Praskovya Fedorovna from the first day disliked the daughter -in -law. But Lilya, afraid to upset her beloved, did not complain to him about the complaints of her mother -in -law. The psychological atmosphere in the house also aggravated her condition, and she became seriously ill after returning to Moscow.

Now the artist did not leave the bed of his wife, who was treated by the best doctors. But every day he brought her closer to an end, she got worse. The death of his wife was a terrible shock for Surikov. She was only 30 years old. Subsequently, he greatly blamed himself for a rash step when he decided to take his family to Siberia. The suffering was unbearable, and died, like a righteous man, with a smile on the lips of Olga Vasilievna Konchalovskaya said: “She was sick for all ten years - rheumatism, he was difficult to treat, he fell on his heart.

And for the last two years she suffered from her heart ... She only sat down, lost weight, she melted. He suffered and he along with her. When his mother died ... He fell into despair, cried and read the Bible ... Every day we went to Vagankovo, began to clean the apartment and broke a lot, destroyed. So a year has passed. The portrait of his wife, written a few days before her death for Vasily Ivanovich, was the most difficult blow in his life.

He spent a lot of time at the grave of his wife at the Vagankovsky cemetery, constantly went to church, ordered the forties and memorial services. Friends began to seriously fear for his mind. Once, in a fit of rage, the artist broke all the furniture in the house and burned his drawings, cursing himself for not managing to stop Lily's disease. That I did not hear the "bell", which rang, even when the wife posed for "Menshikov in Berezovo." Owls at forty years old, the artist never married again.

He gave all his unspent love to her daughters, which was completely replaced by his mother. He could not entrust any other woman with their daughters. When mom did not become, the girls were nine and seven years old. The artist stopped writing Surikov did not take up brushes and paints, and did not approach the easel. For days he idle in the church in front of the images, and in the evenings he read the Bible, examined his old sketches and despair completely captured his soul.

Sorrow broke through it frantically. He could not look at the previous coziness of his house and furiously broke all the furniture he needed to work in order to feed the children, and there was neither creative nor physical strength. At that difficult time for the artist, his brother, who came to Moscow from Krasnoyarsk, helped him. It is difficult to overestimate the role that his younger brother Alexander Ivanovich played in the spiritual healing of Surikov.