Approaching the weekend and You don't know what to do?
Of course, travel! This is the most pleasant experience for the family!
Today we with You go on 100 km to the South from Moscow, on the Oka river, in the State memorial historical-art and natural Museum reserve of Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov.
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Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (20 may [1 June] 1844, St. Petersburg - July 18, 1927, Borok, Tula region) - Russian painter, master of historical, landscape and genre painting, and teacher. People's artist of the Republic (1926).
Vasily Polenov was born into a large, cultural noble family. His father, Dmitriy Vasilievich Polenov, was a famous archaeologist and bibliographer. His mother, Maria Alekseevna, nee Voeikov, wrote books for children, was engaged in painting. Uncle of the artist, M. V. Polenov (1823-1882), was a Senator.
A vivid childhood impression Polenov was a trip North, to the Olonets land, with its virgin nature, and to Olshanka Tambov province, in the estate of his grandmother, V. N. Voeikov. Vera, daughter of the famous architect Nikolai Lvov, educated after the early death of his parents in the house of Gavrila Derzhavin, well oriented in Russian history, knew folk poetry, loved to tell the grandkids about Russian folk tales, epics, legends. In this atmosphere formed the artistic taste Polenov...
In 1892 Polenov Museum was the first in Russia art Museum in the village available to visitors. And in troubled times, when Russia did not exist security laws and institutions dealing with Museum issues, fate kept the House.
In may 1918, was one of the first museums in the country, taken under the protection of the state as not subject to confiscation, and declared a national treasure.
In 1924 the Decree of the SNK RSFSR manor "Borok" was granted in perpetuity to the family of Balenovich.
The artist died at the age of 83 years on July 18, 1927 at their HOMESTEAD and was buried in the village cemetery in the village Bekhovo on the steep Bank of the Oka, where he so often loved to draw sketches. Over his grave according to his will, established the Olonets cross. The estate of Imechanica Olonets province 10-year-old city resident Bob logs once for the first time acquainted with nature.
Church of the Holy Trinity in Behove built V. K. Polenov good visible from the opposite Bank of the Oka. Polenov gladly responded to a personal request from the peasants to build a Church for them, knowing full well that the Church - that common link, which spiritually unites all segments of the population. But there was another reason which Polenov explained in a letter to a friend: "Our Church, which recognizes and painting and music and poetry, along with the House of prayer is already a Temple of art, and this is her great strength and importance, as in the past and in the present and the future."
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