Аннотация: The drive to preserve the past. A note on chapters 1-3 of Leo Anisov's book "Tretyakov"
The drive to preserve the past. A note on chapters 1-3 of Leo Anisov's book "Tretyakov"
It can be assumed that Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832 - 1898), the founder of the Tretyakov Gallery, did not keep a diary. Perhaps not so often he wrote letters on general topics ... (Although an extensive correspondence between Pavel Tretyakov and Vasily Vereshchagin was published - but this is a later biographical period).
What can replace diaries and letters? A series of paintings that were acquired one after another? Decipher the life of a collector using a number of paintings? This, probably, is also not easy ... Lev Mikhailovich Anisov gives an interpretation of the first acquired Pavel Tretyakov painting ("Temptation"): the author of the biography suggests that in the life of the collector around this time there was a strong attachment ...
The biographer begins the book with descriptions ...
Descriptions of Moscow, history, how merchants lived ... Leo Anisov mentions such a quality of the Old Believer merchants as a desire to preserve the past.
The nice figure of father of Pavel Tretyakov, Mikhail Zakharovich (Mikhail Zakharovich died in 1850).
Moscow merchants begin to acquire paintings ... Collections appear ... The idea arises to create a public art gallery...
The author almost does not inform about the economic life of Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov. But a reader guesses that this neat, serious, loving theater, antiquity, books, art, and not loving alcohol, man, has a financial affairs which are going well...
The author"s story about the collector"s contacts with artists.
Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, as an experienced merchant, decided to buy paintings from those whom he knew personally (or, on the advice of those whom he knew personally, from those whom he could personally know if he wanted to).
There are several descriptions of those artists with whom Pavel Tretyakov maintained relations.
And finally, an important biographical point.
The financial resources of Pavel Tretyakov, the penchant for a collecting, the intentions of the Moscow merchants to create a publicly accessible art gallery, and other factors united.
A document appears (testament letter), where Pavel Tretyakov describes in detail the plan for creating an art gallery.
The plan for the successful life of Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov is made...
June 11, 2020 22:10
Translation from Russian into English: June 11, 2020 23:07.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Тяга к сохранению прошлого. Заметка о главах 1-3 книги Л.М. Анисова "Третьяков"".