Unfamiliar name - Makarov Evgeny Kirillovich

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The Russian land is rich in world-famous artists. But the painter Makarov Evgeny Kirillovich is hardly familiar to people uninitiated in the history of art. This man did not leave a bright mark, but nevertheless his paintings are present in the collections of major domestic museums, such as the State Tretyakov Gallery. It is difficult to find even a portrait of the artist, although he may be depicted in photographs of the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, but no one can confirm his identity.

Biography of Evgeny Makarov

The future artist was born in the family of a head doctor in the city of Dushete, Tiflis province, on 12/1/1842. Childhood passed in the Chernihiv province. He graduated from the general education Novgorod-Seversk gymnasium. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts with Ilya Repin. During the years of study, he received several awards for the implementation of programs on Orthodox topics "The Resurrection of the Daughter of Jairus", "Job and His Friends". The most famous are his watercolors, graphic works.

Friendship with Ilya Repin

Makarov Yevgeny was one of Ilya Repin's comrades as a student. Young artists often met in close company, among them wereViktor Vasnetsov, Ilya Repin, Arkhip Kuindzhi. At that time, Eugene lived in St. Petersburg, often visited the Chernigov province.

In 1870, together with the Repin Brothers - Ilya and Vasily (a student at the conservatory), the artist Fyodor Vasiliev set off on a journey along the Volga. Friends sailed on oars from Tver to Saratov in order to find barge haulers, precisely those who sunk into the heart of I. Repin. The artist was shocked by the hard work of these people and at the same time subdued by one of the barge haulers, watching them for the first time, so by all means decided to paint a picture, embodying the life of these people on canvas.

Friends spent almost the whole summer in a village near Saratov, called Shiryaevo, where the house they lived in still remains. It then belonged to a local merchant. Now the building is in a very dilapidated state, but there is a memorial plaque on it, reminiscent of those visits. By the way, the name Makarov Yevgeny is not on it. But it is documented that he took part in that journey. Local old-timers claim that the authorities had intentions to create a museum in the house, but things never went any further.

It was said that Evgeny Makarov was a calm, balanced person, and this was the complete opposite of the temperamental merry fellow Fyodor Vasiliev. But there were no inconveniences because of this, on the contrary, young people complemented each other very well.

Imperial Family Artist

Makarov Yevgeny Kirillovich often fulfilled the orders of the imperial family, making travel sketches for the Romanovs.

Historians are well aware of his journey with Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Sr. to Turkey, Egypt, Palestine. The journey took place in 1872. Yevgeny Makarov was invited to make travel sketches, which later became illustrations in the book of Dmitry Antonovich Skalon, historian, memoirist, adjutant of the Grand Duke. The title of the book was Travels in the East and the Holy Land. The artist's sketches were first engraved on wood by Krzhizhanovsky, and then became illustrations for the book.

During the Russian-Turkish war in 1877, being in the retinue of Alexander II, the artist was in the field of hostilities together with the famous battle painter Vasily Vereshchagin.

Secular activity of the artist

In 1883, Yevgeny Makarov traveled to Paris to get acquainted with the latest methods of faience and porcelain painting. Funds for the trip were provided by the Fund for the Promotion of Artists.

Makarov Evgeny taught at the Drawing School for the Encouragement of Arts in the class of ceramic painting, leading the course. The society and the school were created to support and develop talented artists.

Exhibitions

Makarov Yevgeny Kirillovich presented his works at many art exhibitions of the second half of the nineteenth century. His works could be seen in the halls of the Imperial Academy of Arts, in the society of exhibitions of works of art, in the halls of the Societyencouragement of arts in St. Petersburg, at the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition in Moscow.

In 1884 Makarov Yevgeny Kirillovich died in St. Petersburg at the age of 42.