All paintings with the names of the artist Makovsky. Makovsky's paintings: description, photo
The master was born in 1839 in a family talented person and a good artist Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky. The artistic environment in which Konstantin was brought up left its mark on all the children from this family. The boys have become famous artists, and their sister Maria is an actress.
Konstantin easily and successfully studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Friends of his parents were famous artists - V. Tropinin and, which undoubtedly influenced the work of the master.
Konstantin just as successfully entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, studied well and, while still a student, began to participate in exhibitions. But he did not get an academic diploma, because, together with some other students, he did not begin to work on canvases on the mythology of the Scandinavian countries.
Makovsky was characterized by a realistic depiction of reality, but not alien to romantic direction and a tendency to use rather lush decorative details and elements. Nevertheless, his canvases look very organic and solid, they have a solid academic background and an undoubted talent as a painter and draftsman.
Acquaintance and joint work with the logical image led to the creation of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions with some other famous artists. These artists quickly became known as the Wanderers. Makovsky continued his series of works, which depicted ordinary people busy with their daily routines.
On the subject of work and especially artistic means the implementation of the plan, the color scheme of Konstantin's paintings was greatly influenced by his travels to Serbia and to. The paintings acquire multicolor, rich coloring and are often distinguished by a complex multi-figured composition. The master gets carried away historical events, which pretty much idealizes for the sake of greater pictorial appeal.
Also during this period, Makovsky successfully painted a large number of portraits. Among them are unusually beautiful images of Maria Volkonskaya and the wife of the Tsar. Alexander III Maria Feodorovna in her youth. last picture- a ceremonial image that fully reflects the mass passion of the aristocracy for pseudo-Russian motifs. The rich jewelry of the queen and her diadem, strongly reminiscent of a kokoshnik, clearly demonstrates highest craftsmanship artist.
The same features are typical for other works of the master, depicting Russian people of past eras. They are extremely idealized, but very beautiful and attractive, masterfully executed.
Life talented artist broke off suddenly. The 76-year-old master died when his carriage was hit by a tram. After him, there are many beautiful paintings that demonstrate him. high level as an artist. A whole era remained in his paintings, stormy and energetic, the time when a new Russian art and memorable, epoch-making canvases were created.
“If any of the artists was popular in Rus', then it was him. Perhaps they didn’t pray for him, they didn’t call him a god, but everyone loved him, and loved his very shortcomings - the very thing that brought the artist closer to his time. Alexander Benois
In his book "My Dagestan", reflecting on the talent of a person, the world-famous poet voiced interesting thought: “Talent is not inherited, otherwise dynasties would reign in art…”. Perhaps this is the only thought of the great Avar, with which one can disagree or dispute.
In contrast to Rasul Gamzatov, no less interesting wisdom comes to mind: "The beauty of the branches depends on the roots". Ironically, this idea belongs to the Soviet Avar poetess, people's poetess of Dagestan - Faz Gamzatovna Aliyeva.
There are really few reigning dynasties in art, but one of them was, and in Russian art, and very talented. So much so that everyone - both father and children - all became famous artists. Of course, this is the Makovsky dynasty. The ancestor of the dynasty of painters was Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky. The successors were his children - Alexandra Egorovna, Konstantin Egorovich, Nikolai Egorovich, and his grandchildren.
All of them were very famous in artistic circles, but world famous and most dear artist from the dynasty became the eldest of the sons - Constantine.
In the second half of the 19th century Konstantin Makovsky was one of the most fashionable and expensive portrait painters in Russia. Contemporaries called him "brilliant Kostya", and Emperor Alexander II - "my painter". They say that it was because of the “naked Mermaids” by K. Makovsky that Alexander II first visited the exhibition of the Wanderers.
In terms of sales, the works of Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky are only comparable with the canvases of one of the most prolific Russian masters.
The world fame of Makovsky was so great that it was his Americans who invited him to paint the first presidential portrait of Theodore Roosevelt.
In Russia, envious people called him a superficial artist who did not want to "dig deep", but they could not deny the genius light hand competitor. The lion's share of his works ended up in private collections ...
Mermaids. 1879, Demonstrated at the VII Traveling Exhibition in 1879 Do you know why there are practically no works by Makovsky in domestic museums? Because Russian collectors simply could not afford them.
So Makovsky asked Tretyakov for his “Boyar wedding feast in the 17th century” no less than 20,000, and this was a normal price for his work. Tretyakov could not afford such prices, and "Pir" went to the American jeweler Schuman for ... 60,000. At the same time, the jeweler was simply happy, ordered another canvas and began to produce postcards with Makovsky's paintings in the USA.
Boyar wedding feast in the 17th century. 1883, Hillwood Museum, Washington, USA The painting "Boyar wedding feast in the 17th century", one of the best masterpieces Makovsky, enjoyed a dizzying success in 1883 at the World Exhibition in Antwerp and was awarded the most high award- Big gold medal. The artist himself was also awarded the Order of King Leopold.
When working on this picture, the artist's wife Yulia Pavlovna (it was her face on the bride), her sister Ekaterina and eldest son Sergei posed for the artist.
IN Soviet time Makovsky was declared a "harmful" artist and was forgotten, his works were stuffed into storerooms, and then given away to friendly foreign leaders. So even the Indonesian President Sukarno got several paintings from the generosity, today they are the pride of the local state art gallery.
Oriental woman (Gypsy). 1878 
Arab in a turban. 1882 “The best beauties vying with each other posed for me. I made enormous money and lived in regal luxury. He managed to paint a myriad of paintings, - wrote Makovsky himself. — I did not bury my God this talent into the ground, but did not use it to the extent that he could. I loved life too much, and this prevented me from completely surrendering to art.
He also loved women. Konstantin Yegorovich was a very loving man. By the time he met his first wife, he already had illegitimate daughter Natalya, Natalya Lebedeva, who only in 1877 received the surname Makovskaya, the fruit of his student passion.
In 1867 he married a young, promising actress Alexandria Theater- Elena Timofeevna Burkova, who was educated in Switzerland. Lenochka brought a lot of love and sensitive sociability into his scattered "bohemian" life. She was fragile, sickly and could not be considered beautiful, but from her appearance and from her whole “manner of being” an inexplicable charm emanated.
It was happy marriage people with common interests and spiritual needs, but happiness did not last long. First, almost immediately after his birth in 1871, his son Vladimir died. In the same year, Elena was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Doctors said that a warm, dry climate could save her, and Makovsky took his wife to Egypt. However, nothing helped, and in March 1873 the artist was widowed. It is still unknown what the artist's wife looked like. Perhaps she is in one of the following portraits?
Female portrait. 1878 
Female portrait. Early 1880s, Far East Art Museum, Khabarovsk 
Female portrait. 1880s, National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk Konstantin Yegorovich in his youth had a charming appearance, a carefree festive cheerfulness of disposition, a habit of quick decisions, hard work and greed for the pleasures of life. He was always in good spirits, affable, smart, well-groomed, smelling of cologne and fine tobacco, carefree, charming, dexterous, with unusually good health.
The lushly curly head thrown back, with the forehead compressed at the temples, early bald, gave the pure Russian face in the dark blond beard an open and independent look. Attention to the famous, spoiled artist has always acquired a shade of enthusiastic worship. In society, he was invariably pleasant and talkative, a smile appeared on their faces when Konstantin Yegorovich entered the room.
Konstantin Makovsky did not remain an inconsolable widower for long. In 1874, at a ball in the Naval Corps, he met Yulia Pavlovna Letkova , who came to enter the conservatory (she had a beautiful voice, a lyric soprano), who soon became his wife.
She was only sixteen years old, but with her ability to keep herself in society and mental maturity, she seemed older. Judging by the then bad photographs, she was very beautiful. Konstantin Yegorovich fell in love at first sight and did not leave her all evening. The next day, the "professor of painting" in love hurried to invite everyone to his place - "to make music." Towards dinner, Konstantin Yegorovich took young Letkova by the arm and, seating her at the table next to him, said loudly - so that everyone could hear: “That's great ... Be my mistress!” . And so began their engagement...
Two weeks after the evening on Gagarinskaya Embankment, it was decided to get married as soon as the bride turned sixteen years old. On January 22, 1875, the wedding took place in the Post Office Church. The bride was 16, the groom was 36.
For a decade and a half, Yulia Pavlovna Makovskaya, the artist's wife, was his muse, a model for portraits, historical paintings and mythological compositions.
According to family legend, the appearance famous portrait the artist's wife was accidental. Yulia Pavlovna went up to her husband's workshop, dressed in a dark red velvet hood and a blue ribbon. Konstantin Yegorovich, enthusiastically working on some kind of canvas, at first did not pay attention to her, and she, pouting, sat down in an armchair and began absently cutting the pages of the book with an ivory knife.
The artist turned around, immediately put the first narrow canvas that came to hand on the easel and sketched the silhouette of his wife with a book in her hands. In three sessions, the portrait was completed, and the whole city started talking about it.
“This raspberry dress just rings - sharp high note among the dull tones of our gray everyday life,” wrote one of his contemporaries.
In the spring of 1875, the couple went to Paris. Konstantin rented a studio on the famous Boulevard Clichy and an apartment on Brussels Street, obliquely from the Viardots. Turgenev, whose portrait Makovsky painted earlier, was their frequent guest. Artists gathered in Viardot's house - Russians and Parisians, artists often visited.
The Makovskys returned from Paris a year later with their newborn daughter, and at the end of the summer grief happened - the girl died of scarlet fever. The seventeen-year-old mother suffered the death of her firstborn very hard, but her youth took its toll, and soon she again began to expect the addition of a family, and went to Nice to recover.
August 15, 1877 in the house of Pereyaslavtsev on the embankment near Nikolaevsky bridge, the son of Seryozha was born - the future art critic, essayist, poet, editor and publisher of Apollo, a wonderful Russian magazine, almanac.
Seryozha (Portrait of a son in a sailor suit). 1887 We can say that Sergei literally from the cradle became a model for his father's paintings. Later, he recalled that he was dressed for a very long time according to the children's fashion of those years and grew curls, which Konstantin Makovsky liked so much. One can recall the paintings "In the Artist's Studio" (which Konstantin Makovsky himself called "The Little Thief"), "The Little Antiquary", "Serezha".
In 1879, Elena was born to the Makovskys, in 1883 - the son of Vladimir, whom he baptized Grand Duke Alexey Alexandrovich, brother of Alexander III. They were also destined to become models for Konstantin Yegorovich.
The workshop, where the children posed for their father, was in itself a source of strong impressions: it was all hung with Persian carpets, African ritual masks, ancient weapons, cages with songbirds. Tassels, ostrich and peacock feathers stood in Chinese vases, numerous brocade cushions adorned sofas, and ivory boxes adorned tables. Naturally, the children were drawn to their father's office, and posing was not a burden to them.
In 1889, Konstantin Makovsky went to the World Exhibition in Paris, where he exhibited several of his paintings. There he met 20-year-old Maria Alekseevna Matavtina (1869-1919) and became interested in her. The fruit of this passion was born in 1891 illegitimate son Konstantin. The artist was forced to confess everything to his wife. And she did not forgive betrayal.
On November 18, 1892, Yulia Pavlovna filed a petition "to grant her the right to live with three children on a separate passport from her husband and to eliminate the latter from any interference in the upbringing and education of children." On May 26, 1898, a formal divorce was issued. Yulia Pavlovna was only 39 years old! Konstantin Egorovich is 59 years old.
Family portrait. 1882, depicted by Yu.P. Makovskaya with children Sergei and Elena The remaining 56 years of her life, Yulia Pavlovna lived in the family of her son Sergei. In exile, in France, she helped her son write an essay about his father, which was especially difficult for him to write; he never could forgive him.
And Konstantin Makovsky on June 6, 1898 married Maria Matavtina, and the court legalized their children. By that time, daughters Olga and Marina were also born. After that, the son Nikolai was born. The artist continued to use as models and children from his third marriage and his new wife.
Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky died on September 17, 1915 as a result of an accident. He was returning to his Vasiliyeostrovskaya workshop in a cab. The horses were frightened by the tram, a new form of transport, and rushed, overturning the carriage. Konstantin Yegorovich fell out of this wheelchair, hitting his head on the pavement, which caused a very serious injury that required surgery. After the operation, he came to his senses, but his heart could not withstand too strong a dose of chloroform. Thus ended a 74-year-old brilliant life full of work, joy and success.
Facts from the life of K. Makovsky
“For what came out of me, I consider myself indebted not to the academy, not to professors, but exclusively to my father,” wrote K. Makovsky in his declining years.
Everything is interesting in childhood. A mangy crow drank funny from a puddle. On Lenivka, a clean-cut peasant was selling delicious raspberry kvass. In the store on Tverskaya, the Italian Giuseppe Artari laid out prints ordered from abroad.
"Love and remember!" the father inspired his son, and demanded that Kostya draw street scenes in a pocket album, sketch portraits of passers-by, and at home he asked the boy “Have you forgotten the peasant that he treated you to kvass? Yes, and that crow was remarkable. Come on, draw them to me ... Art is a religion, art is for that, to ennoble people, making them kinder and better "
Kostya Makovsky painted from the age of four everything that caught his eye, and immediately showed the ability to easily "grasp nature." At the age of twelve he entered the School of Painting and Sculpture, where his first mentors were Scotty, Zaryanko, Tropinin. He mastered the pictorial style of the latter to perfection - a copy of Makovsky from Tropinin's portrait could not be distinguished from the original. While still at the School, he received a small silver medal from the Academy for a pencil sketch (1857).
Particularly famous in the artist's work was the painting "Children running from the storm" , depicting a simple but dramatic plot from rural life.
Children running from the storm. 1872, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Children here remind fairytale heroes- sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka. The artist was attracted by the feeling of anxiety before a thunderstorm, which united nature and children. The landscape, pierced by the wind, captures the changing state of nature: the alternation of light and shadow, the variety of shades of the sky - from dark purple to golden yellow. The swaying tops of plants, running clouds emphasize the movements of children driven by the wind. The shaky bridge sags under the hurried steps of the girl - very soon a thunderstorm will break out. And below, at the very ground, where swamp grasses and flowers intertwine - peace and quiet.
Riot of the Fourteen - on November 9 (21), 1863, the scandalous refusal of the fourteen best graduates of the Imperial Academy of Arts, headed by I. N. Kramskoy, from participating in the competition for a large gold medal held for the 100th anniversary of the Academy of Arts.
While studying at the Moscow School of Painting, Konstantin Makovsky was the first student to receive all available awards. But later, while studying at the Academy, he, along with other students, refused to write a competitive picture on the theme of "Scandinavian mythology" - he took part in the so-called "Riot of the Fourteen" and ended up not graduating. And yet, a few years later, the artist was awarded the title of academician, professor, full member of the Academy of Arts.
Makovsky's brush belongs to the largest easel painting in Russia - the painting "Minin's Appeal to the Nizhny Novgorod", which he painted for six years.
Minin on the square Nizhny Novgorod urging people to donate. 1890s State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Especially interesting direction in the artist's work there was an image of the "Boyaryshen" and Russian beauties in national costumes- more than 60 canvases, and all of them are bright, rich and unique. Some of the most famous:
Boyar at the window. 1885 
Down the aisle. 1884 
Boyarishnya, Study for the 1901 painting “Sprinkled with Hops” 
Hawthorn. 1880s 
"Divination" (1915) The 1880s revealed Makovsky as the author of portraits and the creator of historical canvases. At the Paris World Exhibition of 1889, the artist received a Grand Gold Medal for his paintings "Death of Ivan the Terrible" (1888), "The Judgment of Paris" and "Demon and Tamara" (1889).
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The biography of the artist Makovsky Konstantin today is obscured by his prominent brother Vladimir - famous representative Wanderers. However, Konstantin left a noticeable mark in art, being a serious, independent painter.
Makovsky family
The surname Makovsky is well known in Russian art. The father of the family, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky, was famous figure arts in He organized the "Natural School" for painters, which later became known as Moscow School painting, sculpture and architecture.
A creative spirit has always reigned in the family, and it is not surprising that all three children of Yegor Ivanovich became artists. The house was often visited by friends of the father - the artists Karl Bryullov and Vasily Tropinin, it was possible to meet here the writer Gogol, the actor Shchepkin. Literary and musical evenings there were disputes about art. All this influenced the formation of children. Adult Konstantin Makovsky said that he owes his success in painting solely to his father, who was able to instill in him an indestructible love for art.
The family had three children: the eldest son Konstantin, the daughter of Alexander and the youngest - Vladimir. The wealth in the family was modest, but the reigning spirit of art fully compensated for all domestic inconveniences.
Childhood of Constantine
From childhood, Konstantin Makovsky was immersed in art, in fact, he did not know any other life, and he was destined to choose the path of a painter. All the children in the family began to draw very early.
Kostya, as the first child in the family, began by being next to his father and his friends, when they discussed painting and their ideas, showed sketches and paintings. All this formed aesthetic views and interests of the boy.
Finding a craft
In 1851, Konstantin Makovsky entered his father's school of painting, sculpture and architecture. His mentors there were - V. Tropinin, M. Scotty, S. Zaryanko, A. Mokritsky. Here, for seven years, an artist was formed from a boy with his own, original view of the world and taught him the basics of pictorial art.
At the school, he was the first student, received all possible awards. In 1858, Konstantin entered the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg - the best educational institution in the field of art in Russian Empire. During his studies, he regularly exhibited his work at the annual exhibitions of the Academy and even received a Grand Gold Medal for his work "Agents of Dmitry the Pretender kill the son of Boris Godunov."
In 1862, Makovsky began to look for his own path in art, since academism seemed to him boring and outdated.
Path in art
Konstantin biography of the artist is presented in our article) is looking for his own style, wants to express his inner world. In 1863, he, along with thirteen other artists selected to participate in the competition for the Great Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts, refuses to paint a picture on a theme approved by the academicians.
He had to leave the educational institution, and Makovsky was never able to get a diploma of education. This event became known as the "Riot of the Fourteen". The protest was that the artists wanted to get freedom and write work on a free theme, but the Academy did not want to meet them halfway. In fact, it was a rebellion against the shackles of academicism and was a sign of the emerging new school realism, in which Konstantin Makovsky will play a prominent role.
In 1863 the artist joined I. Kramskoy's group and worked in the emerging genre household painting. In 1870, Makovsky became one of the initiators and ideological inspirers of the creation of the Association of Traveling Artists and worked hard describing scenes Everyday life.
He exhibited his work as academic exhibitions, and in the company with the Wanderers. In the 80s, Makovsky became a very popular author of salon portraits and paintings on historical subjects. And in 1889 he received a Grand Gold Medal at an art exhibition in Paris for a series of works.
The objects of Makovsky's brush were historical scenes, the life of the people, life. He paints the characters' costumes and settings with love and ethnographic accuracy. In the late 80s, the artist increasingly turns to historical subjects, writes large detailed pictures, for example, "The Boyar Wedding Feast in the 17th century", which are very popular with the public and critics. He also created a lot of portraits of various people.
The creative heritage of Konstantin Makovsky has about a hundred paintings, among them many large, epic canvases (today they are dispersed in private and museum collections all over the world). In addition, he participated in the design of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
Collector
Konstantin Makovsky, whose paintings are now the object of attention of collectors, was himself a great collector. He inherited this passion from his father, who loved a wide variety of art and antiques.
The idea of the collection was formulated by the artist in the words: "beautiful antiquity". Fascinated by historical subjects, he collected various items utensils and furnishings, costumes, as well as everything that attracted the refined taste of the artist.
During the hobby period peasant theme, Makovsky travels a lot in the Russian hinterland, buying household items and clothes. Traveling to the East added to the collection a large number of items of oriental life, carpets, jewelry and costumes. As a result, by the 80s, the artist's apartment looked more like a museum than a person's home.
Collection items often served as the basis for the creation of paintings. Thus, in the work "Boyar Wedding Feast in the 17th century", critics note the smallest coincidence of details with the historical costume and the situation of that time. By the beginning of the XX century. Makovsky was one of major collectors Russia, and his activities led to a fashion for craze collecting among bohemia and bourgeois.
Konstantin Yegorovich was very proud of his collection, he showed it with pleasure and gave things for various exhibitions. After the death of the artist, an auction was organized, which put up 1,100 items, as a result of which the widow gained more than half a million rubles, and the things went to the collections of private individuals and museums. But, unfortunately, the integrity of the collection was violated, and Makovsky's many years of work went to waste.
Best works
Konstantin Makovsky, best paintings, a biography, which is still becoming the object of study of art historians, left a great legacy. Among his most famous works are: "The Death of Ivan the Terrible", "A Feast at the Boyar Morozov", "Bulgarian Martyrs", "Minin at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair", "The Choice of a Bride by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich".
Private life of the artist
Konstantin Makovsky traveled a lot, lived in Paris for some time, visited Africa three times, and all this enriched his work, in which one can detect features of emerging modernism. For his artistic merits, Makovsky was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor and St. Anne.
The artist was married three times. The first wife died of tuberculosis, and he divorced the second. In total, he had nine children, among whom there are artists and cultural figures.
On September 30, according to the new style of 1915, a tram hit a man - this is how Konstantin Makovsky ended his journey. The life and work of the artist remained in the history of Russian painting as an important page in the formation of realism.
Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky (June 20 (July 2), 1839 - September 17 (30), 1915) - Russian painter, one of the early members of the Wanderers Association.
Born in Moscow. The son of an artist and amateur artist, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky, one of the founders of the "natural class" on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, which later became the School of Painting and Sculpture, and after 1865 the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Brother of the painters Alexandra, Nikolai and Vladimir Makovsky. Younger sister artist, Maria Egorovna Makovskaya was an actress. Family friends included Karl Bryullov and Vasily Tropinin. Later, Konstantin Makovsky wrote: “For what came out of me, I consider myself indebted not to the academy, not to professors, but exclusively to my father.”
In 1851 he entered the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture, where, becoming the first student, he easily received all the available awards. His teachers were M. I. Scotti, A. N. Mokritsky, S. K. Zaryanko, all of them were students of Karl Bryullov. Makovsky's penchant for romanticism and decorative effects can be explained by the influence of Bryullov.
In 1858 Makovsky entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. From 1860 he participated in exhibitions of the Academy with such paintings as "Healing of the Blind" (1860) and "Agents of Demetrius the Pretender kill the son of Boris Godunov" (1862). In 1863, Makovsky, along with 13 other students selected to compete for the Academy's Grand Gold Medal, refused to paint a painting on the theme of Scandinavian mythology and left the academy without receiving a diploma.
A little later, he joined the artel of artists, headed by Ivan Kramskoy, creating paintings from everyday life (The Widow (1865), The Herring Seller (1867), etc.), and in 1870, the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Konstantin Makovsky exhibits his works both at the exhibitions of the Academy and at traveling art exhibitions.
Significant changes in his style came after a trip to Egypt and Serbia in the mid-1870s. His interests shifted from social and psychological problems to artistic problems colors and shapes.
In the 1880s, Konstantin Makovsky rose to prominence as a fashionable painter of portraits and historical paintings and became one of the highest paid Russian artists that time. At the World Exhibition of 1889 in Paris, he receives a Grand Gold Medal for the paintings "The Death of Ivan the Terrible", "The Judgment of Paris" and "The Demon and Tamara". Some democratic critics viewed him as a traitor to the ideals of the Wanderers, who, like Henryk Semiradsky, created works that were striking in appearance but superficial in meaning.
In 1915, along with many other artists of his time, he participated in the establishment of the Renaissance Society artistic Rus'. In June of this year, Konstantin Makovsky, having become a victim of an accident (a tram crashed into his crew), died in Petrograd. He was buried at the Nikolsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (the grave has not been preserved).
The picturesque manner of the artist has features of several styles. Having left the school and being a representative of academicism, at the same time he demonstrates some qualities that will most clearly manifest themselves in the work of Russian impressionists. In addition, some of his historical paintings, such as "Attire of the Russian Bride" (1889), show an idealized view of life in Russia of previous eras.
Illegitimate daughter - Natalya Konstantinovna Makovskaya (Lebedeva) - (1860-1939).
Wife, from November 11, 1866 - Elena Timofeevna Burkova (stage name Cherkasova). artist drama troupe Imperial Theaters in St. Petersburg, illegitimate daughter of Count V. A. Adlerberg, former Minister of the Court under Nicholas I. Son Vladimir (1871-1871). In March 1873 the artist was widowed.
Second marriage, from January 22, 1875, to Yulia Pavlovna Letkova (1859 - 11/23/1954). Her sister is Letkova, Ekaterina Pavlovna. The Letkov sisters, famous beauties of their time, repeatedly served Makovsky as models for his work.
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Self portrait, 1856
Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky (July 2, 1839 - September 30, 1915) - Russian artist who joined the Wanderers, a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
Kostya Makovsky painted from the age of four everything that caught his eye, and immediately showed the ability to easily "grasp nature."
"Love and remember!" the father inspired his son, and demanded that Kostya draw street scenes in a pocket album, sketch portraits of passers-by, and at home he asked the boy “Have you forgotten the peasant that he treated you to kvass? Yes, and that crow was remarkable. Come on, draw them to me ... Art is a religion, art is there to ennoble people, making them kinder and better. ”Later, Konstantin said that he owed his talent primarily to his father.
The historical painting of Makovsky, his so-called boyar genres, corresponded to the spirit of the official nationality and the pseudo-Russian style common in the art of the 1880s and 1890s. "Wedding feast in a boyar family XVII century"(1883), "The Kissing Rite" (1895), "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" (1888) are rather interesting from an ethnographic point of view: the artist carefully writes out the costumes of the characters, accessories, details of the everyday environment.
Makovsky K.E. was married twice (I will talk about this separately).
He dreamed of arranging his fate following the example of the great masters of the past, and fulfilled his dream. But the payoff was high. In his declining years, having experienced a certain satiety, he admitted: “I did not bury my God-given talent in the ground, but I did not use it to the extent that I could. I loved life too much, and this prevented me from completely surrendering to art.
Makovsky was the victim of an accident (a tram crashed into his crew) and died in 1915 in St. Petersburg. He was returning to his Vasiliyeostrovskaya workshop in a cab. The horses were frightened by the tram, a new form of transport, and rushed, overturning the carriage. Konstantin Yegorovich fell out of this wheelchair, hitting his head on the pavement, which caused a very serious injury that required surgery. After the operation, he came to his senses, but his heart could not withstand too strong a dose of chloroform. Konstantin Yegorovich died without regaining consciousness. Thus ended a 74-year-old brilliant life full of work, joy and success.
He was buried at the Nikolsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
Minin's proclamation on the square of Nizhny Novgorod.
