Zaitsev Evgeny Biography

Having returned the war and the world after the liberation of Minsk to the ruined Belarus, Zaitsev came a beloved city with a sketchic and a palette: its many landscapes of those years - a recognition of love for the homeland, and the point of memory and an attempt to preserve the images of his favorite places, capture from which he was torn off all long years of the war. This is an unprecedented heyday of art, an unprecedented flight to which Mark Shagal sent a whole province!

Today, the “defense of the Brest Fortress” Evgeny Zaitsev is stored in the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War - not only as a work of art, but also as a monument to a terrible, great era. Nevertheless, to call him a battalist or, as it is now fashionable to say, the language of “historical painting” does not turn. He was not fascinated by antiquities, did not penetrate with the imagination of the elderly era, did not write out the princesses or knights.

He was worried and disturbed only by the story, of which he himself was: the story of the greatest popular disaster - the Great Patriotic War. Do not let your soul be lazy! So that the water is not drowned in a mortar, the soul must work day and night and day and night! Nikolai Zabolotsky wrote these lines much later than Evgeny Zaitsev determined his only and immutable creative path for himself.

But in the words of the poet, both the spirit and the meaning of the life of the generation of winners are enclosed - to fight daily with the idleness of the soul just as they fought with the enemy who came to their native land. Evgeny Alekseevich Zaitsev was born on January 3 in the town of Nevel, now it is Pskov, and in tsarist Russia these lands were part of the Vitebsk province.

The father was an employee at the post office, the mother was there in the same telegraph operator: the ordinary family of well -groomed raznochintsy, where the wife could not afford to be a housewife, but had to earn bread on a par with her husband. To educate three sons Zaitsev fell into a difficult and terrible time - the First World War, October, Civil War, Foreign Intventions, striving to bite a piece from the varnish wealth and territories of the newborn USSR ...

Severe life is a harsh life: to feed, the family during the First World War moved from little Nevel to the provincial Vitebsk. Did he think that he was creating a chronicle of tragic events, a certificate of crimes committed by the Nazis, or between the battles he was not up to these reasoning? One way or another, he honestly earned his Order of the Great Patriotic War of the II.

Zaitsev painted illustrations for the satirical foal of the partisan baton, which spread to the territories occupied by the Nazis, worked in the newspaper “We will distribute the fascist reptile”, as well as continuously over portraits of the heroes-grams. There, in Moscow, he met with Old Man Minai - the commander of the partisan detachment Minai Filippovich Shmyrev, whose terrible story shocked the artist.

So the picture "unforgettable" appeared. The idol of the artist was Konstantin Zaslonov, in the heroic path of his brigade, acting in the Orsha region, Zaitsev was staring at Zaitsev, while still at the front. He painted the painting “The funeral of the hero” for several years: for Zaslonov, even the dead, the Nazis promised a lot of money, and the peasants hid his body from enemies.

So they stand on Zaitsev’s canvas - partisans, escorting the deceased commander, and village women, mourning the one who fought for them. Subsequently, these creative walks, an appeal to a typical Belarusian landscape, along with sketches from a front -line notebook, melted into holistic intentions of paintings - the events of war in Zaitsev’s works are always accompanied by a realistic and honest image of native nature.

The city was breathing painting, it was all saturated with a sharp spirit of oil paints and turpentine, there, beyond the recent settings, artists from the capitals gathered, life was boiling there, passions were boiling, an incomprehensible, but such attractive avant -garde, fluttered the exact, academic brushes of Yellya Pan, and the heads of the residents of the residents of the residents of the residents Creative discoveries, street boys, the working poor took up Mastikhin or clay in the name of the best future ...

Only blind or insensitive could not dream of this thorough time. As an incentive for excellent work, the young artist was sent to study in Leningrad, where Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and the equally famous Alexander Osmerkin took to hone his talent. And for six years, the young Zaitsev eagerly absorbed everything that he gave him this delightful creative circle, graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Hard about Hardness of the year.

In the year, the picture was shown at the All -Union Art Exhibition in Moscow, after - at the republican exhibition in Minsk. For years, it has become an integral part of all expositions dedicated to Belarusian art and military days. In the summer, the artist went there - to the forts destroyed to the base, to the funnels from the shells, into which human remains were discharged, to the gates leading to the citadel, the shots and fragments, but established.For more than one day he wandered, reading the inscriptions left by the defenders of the fortress: “I am dying, but I do not give up!

Goodbye homeland! The Komsomol tickets pierced by bullets, statements about admission to the party, which were written in blood for the lack of ink - he saw and held all this in his hands, penetrating the spirit of those who stood to death on the most hopeless days, but did not submit to the enemy. In the painting “Defense of the Brest Fortress in the year” there is a battle at the Tereshpol gate.

The prototype of the protagonist is Lieutenant Brownvoysk Andrei Kizhevatov, Hero of the Soviet Union, leading people to their last desperate battle.

And only the powder bark hangs in the air, and the red brick of the gate is grinded by the blows of enemy artillery into bloody dust ... Zaitsev could easily stay in the northern capital - a talented graduate was offered graduate school, a place at the department, but he preferred a return to his homeland: Minsk was waiting for him. For several years, he led the continuing education courses for young artists, a lot was exhibited.

I received an order for painting at the Opera and Ballet Theater of the BSSR, alas in the war, the fruits of the artist’s works were destroyed by a German bomb. He was ideal in the highest sense and tried as he could serve the truth and truth. The Great Patriotic War placed under the banners of all residents of the Soviet Union, regardless of nationalities, and this also reflected on the artist’s canvases: for example, the painting “Stand to death” is a landscape after a tank battle, where the Belus soldier helps to stay on its wounded truck comrade.

As each writer has his own main novel - the largest and most difficult, and in the heritage of a genuine artist, the following picture will be found: the one in which everything is invested to a drop - strength, spirit, will, skill, pain and triumph of the victory.