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V.I. SURIKOV

The Russian province has always been rich in talents. And probably there is no place in Russia, which does not have its own famous fellow-townsman. Krasnoyarsk is not an exception. Vasiliy Ivanovich Surikov brought the world fame to the provincial Siberian town at the end of the last century. He was born here in 1848 in the old Cossack family. The Great Russian painter became a classic already in his life-time. His pictures «The Morning of Strelets Execution», «Menshikov in Beryozov», «Boyarynia Morozova», «Ermak Subjugation of Siberia», «Stepan Razin» and «Suvorov Crossing the Alps» became the pride and decoration of the best world museums.

After graduating from the Academy of Arts he settled in Moscow, but he did not forget Krasnoyarsk. Dozens of times he arrived at his home town with his easel, walked along its environs, went to Siberian villages, drew his fellow-countrymen, made sketches of his future pictorial canvases. He painted one of his most famous pictures- «Capturing of a Snowfortress» in his parents' house, which is preserved by Krasnoyarsk people until the present time. In 1948 on 100-years anniversary of the painter's birth his two-storeyed residence became the memorial museum-estate of V.I. Surikov. The traditional Surikov Days are held in his memorial museum, where one can listen to the old songs and ballads that the painter liked.

In the honour of Surikov a street, Krasnoyarsk Children Art School, the Art College and the Art Museum are named. The latter has more than 7000 exhibit items. The collection of this museum consists of modern graphics, paintings, sculpture and decorative art. It includes a unique collection of the artist's masterpieces, which numbers 84 works.

The contemporary Krasnoyarsk painters became the continuers of realistic traditions of their famous fellow-townsman. Exhibitions of fine arts are held monthly in the exhibition halls of the Territory. Exhibitions of Krasnoyarsk painters have become traditional in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other cities of Russia, and abroad. For example, for the past ten years canvases of Krasnoyarsk painters have been exhibited in France, Japan, Germany, Finland, and other countries. Nowadays one can speak with good reason about the existence of original Siberian classicallandscape school the bright representatives of which live and work in Krasnoyarsk. That's why it is by no means accidental that in 1987 the Art Institute was opened in Krasnoyarsk, and a year later – the Siberian-Far East department of the Academy of Arts.

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