Belov Kondraty Biography

Soon, the parents moved to Siberia, to Tomsk County. Bright paintings of that childhood, bright and diverse were imprinted in his memory: a magnificent taiga with the river, which for the village were all - nurse, dear, rest; Annual fairs, noisy, loud, with rolling fun, fraud, tears. I remembered the images of people-either severe and closed, then praying and noble, then greedy, envious, or hypocritical, but strictly observing the principle of non-interference in their homes: two dogs are fighting, the third-do not poke.

The guiding star appeared. He drew with enthusiasm, although it was unsafe. The peasant father, who worked as a thing that he put figured stoves with ornaments, brutally stopped an empty and harmful pastime. But the world is not without good people. At a parish school, the ability of a young artist was appreciated by the volost clerk Pazilov, who served in these places a link.

He even achieved permission to accept Kondraty Belov in the newly opened drawing classes, a year of Tomsk society encouraged artists. But the father was adamant: “They taught you to write, read, count too. Here you have the whole science. If everyone in the village will be scientists, who will sow bread? The county surveyor came to Pacha to distribute plots among the peasants. Upon learning that Kondrat knows how to draw, he instructed him to write the numbers of the plots on the pegs and paid 1 ruble for the day of work.

But instead of an art school, the father gave Kondratia to the boys - as then they called the servants from wealthy villagers. The local priest had the opportunity to serve, who after some time drew attention to the transformed baritones and the musical data of the new assistant and invited his father to prepare his son in hypodiacons for the further church service. But his father was counting on a different version of the fate of Kondraty, decided to marry him on one wealthy girl.

They said about her: "It will not enter the door, but the niece of the local merchant." The father’s calculation to get into people acquired clear outlines, but they did not coincide with the ideas about the life of a young guy. At the age of 17, the spring of the year, with the blessing of his mother, Kondraty fled from marriage to earn money in Tomsk. Mother gave 2 rubles and blessed with tears.

The provincial metropolitan Tomsk struck and shocked the young man. He later recalled: from early childhood, I was an impressionable boy. In addition to my and some surrounding villages, I have not been anywhere. In Tomsk, I was scared and at the same time joyful. Continuous stores at post office. In the Hotel of the Second Windows in three human heights made of thick mirror glass, outside the windows of miracles, could not see enough.

In the square - rallies, people scream, wheezes, rampant, applaud, laugh: again a spectacle. Near the city - fires in the taiga, houses are burning, shops. The haze of smoke hung in the air, the sun is ominously red - scary. Crime, mess, panic ... Thus began the universities of K. Belov, who plunged him into Tomsk overnight stays with their romance and mud of the “bottom” of life.

After some time, Kondraty admitted to the construction of the Murmansk Railway and left for the Russian North. At the construction he knew deprivation, survived a lot of adventures and disasters: miraculously saved from the mobs of the crowd, escaped the murder of the robbers, and Tif Om fell ill. Siberia returns in the year in the revolution, in Tomsk and six months restored health.

In May, he fell under the Kolchakovo mobilization in the Siberian army. Service sent by an ordinary in the mfa regiment, stationed in the city of Omsk E, the capital of the Kolchakovsky regime. The proximity to the authorities spilled into an incredible drill of a soldier and a barracks regime tough for them. In the fall, the part was aimed at strengthening the units participating in the campaign against the Altai Krasno Partizan armies.

The campaign ended with the defeat of the Kolchakovsky units in battles in the Barnaul district, during which Kondraty Belov with a group of other soldiers of peasant origin crossed the side of the Reds. It was checked by the counterintelligence of the Cheka and then enrolled in the ranks of the 5th Red Army, which was rapidly moving east. After the capture of Verkhnoudinsk, the offensive advance stopped-a buffer far republic was created for Baikal Om.

Here, for the first time, the rice talent of the young summer Red Army soldier was recognized. Belov very realistically draws with a simple chemical pencil on the wall of the barracks a naked woman. This improvised sketch liked the command and commissar of the units, after which Kondratia is sent to the art studio of the regiment, led by George Manuilov. He was an insightful man and a fellow countryman, once served as a Tutal volost clerk, lived for a while in more.

Fortunately, three crazy years, when life was not worth anything, and death was constantly nearby, did not deprive the Siberian of impressionability. He worthy of completing classes in the studio and at the request of the same G. Manuilov, the only one of his graduates, was seconded to the annual art studio under the political administration of the 5th Army.It was luck, since the studio lasted only a year and made the only issue.

Among the graduates there were 20, 9 military, the rest - freedomers were and K. was not easy to study in Irkutsk. There was a year. The province was restless. Gangs and Belopartisan unrest kept the city in constant tension. Studying took place, as they say, without interruption from production. Rifles and brushes were nearby. But, most importantly, someone had to study.

A small teaching staff of a short -term studio looked impressive. The teachers were the famous Irkutsk artists K. Pomerantsev and S. Sokolov, the favorite of the Studios, the future Moscow schedule S. Bigos, he was only 5 years older than Belov, the Chita sculptor Innocent Zhukov, his work was exhibited in Paris, St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Moscow, the Bulgarian portrait painter Munzo.

The first picturesque work of K. Belov “Broad Shrovetide” aroused contradant opinions among the teachers, but Bigos actively defended it. In the next, year, along with several new works, she appeared at the exposition of the spring exhibition of Irkutsk artists. So the artist’s debut took place. The fate of Kondratia Belov decided. In the year, he entered the Omsk art and industrial technical school named after M.

to the technical school, he was converted conditionally, without a scholarship, since the 7th grade of the school was required here, and he had only a parish school behind him. There were no problems with special objects, but mathematics, physics were difficult. I had to earn extra money in the former Cadet Corps, the work took a lot of time and gave little money. In the Khudprom to them.

Vrubel had to finish the printing department, which, with the then unemployment, gave great opportunities to find work by profession. In the year, a year after the end of the technical school, he is arranged by a lithographer at a geo-cardographic factory under the military topographic department of the Siberian Military District. In the year, it becomes a member of the Omsk branch of the most numerous then artistic group of AHR Association of Revolution Artists.

In Omsk, a branch of the Muscovite N. was organized by this time Akhrovites took the leading position in the artistic life of the city, unlike other Siberian cities, where the New Siberia association dominated. Under the influence of the Association declaration, all Akhrovites tried to give the people an understandable, ideologically active art, without delving into the problems of shaping.

In the same year, he fell ill with lung tuberculosis, doctors forbade him to work in a Litographical workshop. He got a job as an artist in the Garrison House of the Red Army. There he first designed performances, then he began to play in them. Kondraty Belov was seriously carried away by the theater. In the year, he got a job at the club in the flourishing club, where he became an actor, an artist and director there.

In the same year, a business trip to the north of the Omsk district to control harvesting, from where the artist brought graphic portraits of labor drums. These portraits, exhibited in the drama theater, compiled the 1st personal exhibition of the artist. During these years, his workshop was placed in a carved wooden tower, known in Omsk as “Stumppf’s House”, which thus turned out to be saved from destruction and is today one of the masterpieces of wooden carved Siberian architecture.

In the year, by denunciation, he was excluded from the ranks of the CPSU B as an active White Guard in the year. Under the pretext of reducing the states, he was fired from the club, removed from military registration for the impossibility of using in the Red Army. However, serious consequences personally for K. Belov did not follow, he was allowed to continue work and create arts within the framework of proletarian socialist realism.

From the year, a hard life began in the conditions of the Great Patriotic War. These years, K. Belov lived with dignity, was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War - GG. By the end, Omsk artists are very noticeable in the artistic life of Russia. The central press is sparing about the works of Omsk, they are noted at republican and all -Union exhibitions. In the year, the Committee on Arts awarded diplomas for the best works by K.

Belov, V. Volkov, A.