Yalnizca

It was the autumn of 1946 an extraordinary post-war, golden, sun, resembling, levitanovskuyu autumn, with its light and quiet sadness of farewell glance. Idly falling leaves from trees, covering the beautiful multi-colored carpet almost deserted sidewalks. Slowly, wandering through the park Kislovodsk artist Vladimir V. Seklyutsky, demobilized from the army sergeant, a sketchbook and a host that would write his first post-war study. In a park in post office, his attention was attracted by tombstone without the fence. On the black granite inscribed: a palette and brushes, palm leaf, “Nicholas Aleksandorovich Yaroshenko (1847-1898).” Monument to the remarkable Russian artist, the author’s favorite folk art! Bronze sculpture bust, the work of L. Posen, drained well-known St.

Petersburg studio of A. Moran, who completed a sculpture N. Lermontov for the monument in Pyatigorsk. And the thought of Vladimir V. far in 1918, a young man he sailed as a stoker on the tug. In a little shabby cabin at the head hung a reproduction Yaroshenko, “fireman.” Even then he was filled with love for this artist, truthfully display the entire weight of the infernal work. How painful it was to see the holy tomb for us in the running. Vladimir V.

aside sketchbook, took off his coat, and put in order the grave. Then decided to find a house where he lived artist. The house was infested Yaroshenko residents. Nothing in the estate was reminiscent of a great artist. The path on which Vladimir V. Seklyutsky went to the house Yaroshenko, became his dear and close, turned the whole his life. He was going to make sketches, and met with destiny, and in that memorable meeting at the monument, though the story itself looked into his eyes. Yaroshenko house became his business life. Began years of hard work, hassle, petitions, applications, searches, finds.