Bogdanov-Belsky, Nikolai Petrovich (1868-1945)

To characterize the art of deep national and original artist Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky, most critics use the epithet of "peasant" (for example, the peasant painter). But he was above all a talented painter, trained in the best art schools and excellent teachers. For the study "the illegitimate son of a poor bobylki" (the words of the artist himself) early in the icon painting workshop at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra (1882-1883), then at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture B. Polenov , B. Makovsky , MI Pryanishnikova (1884-1889), the Academy of Arts I. Repin . In Paris, visited the studio for a while French teachers F. Cormon and F. Colarossi.

Because, often in works depicting peasant children, it is a talent he long attracted the attention of art lovers. And one more feature distinguishes the paintings of the painter: they pose a kindness itself, which the artist put into them to create (look into his pictures "Mental Math", 1895, "A patient teacher," 1897 "Students", 1901).

And the last. From 1909 to 1921, NP Bogdanov-Belsky was the chairman of the Society named after AI Kuindzhi that would not be possible without great personal authority of the artist and the man.