the international day of protection of children considering children’s portraits from the collection of the Museum of defense of Moscow, the Memorial Museum of A. N. Scriabin, the State Pushkin Museum and the Museum of heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia. Five stories about children who inspired artists and photographers in a joint material mos.ru and the Agency “Moscow”.
There are many portraits of Alexander Pushkin’s brush domestic and foreign artists. Artists often portrayed the adult of Alexander, but little Sasha was on the canvas only once, in 1802.
the Author, a French artist, Xavier de Maistre, was a frequent guest in the house of Pushkin. He gave drawing lessons to the sister of the poet Olga. Xavier was interested not only in painting — he loved poetry and read their works to the family of the pupils. Rumor has it that he was one of the people that prompted Pushkin’s writing.
In the collection of the State Museum of A. S. Pushkin’s portrait of Xavier de Maistre was in 1961. It was a gift from Vsevolod Yakut, actor of the Moscow drama theater named after M. N. Yermolova, who played the poet in the play “Pushkin” is not coming out of repertoire from 1949 to 1969. The artist of this picture gave one of the spectators, whose great-grandfather was a doctor Pushkins. Among literary scholars long discussed the question of the authenticity of the work: whether it depicts Alexander as a child? After numerous inspections originality was confirmed. Portrait de Maistre still remains the only known baby picture of Pushkin.
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Five-year-old boy Boris Bugaev depicted, has grown to become one of the most famous poets of the Silver age. Do not try to remember poet Boris Bugaev — glorified he is not under his own name and under the pseudonym Andrew White.
He was born to a mathematics Professor at the Imperial Moscow University Nikolai Bugaev. Parents of the future poet sought in every way to develop the talents of child: father cultivated his interest in the exact Sciences, and the mother was humanitarian side of education — taught his son reading and music, talked about art. The boy could not determine the business of life, afraid to disappoint mom or dad. This was one of the reasons why he wrote his poems under a pseudonym. His works have appeared under different names — from Student to naturalist Leonid Ice, until one day a close friend of Sergei Solovyov told him to take a sonorous pseudonym Andrew White.
Baby picture of the poet is in the exposition of the Memorial apartment of Andrei Bely.
12 Feb 1908 in the family of Alexander Skrabi��and Tatyana Schletzer-Scriabin was born a boy, whom they named Julian. The son of a composer quite early began to play and compose music myself, holding the instrument for several hours a day. In 1913, Julian became to go to school Gnesin. Even then his talent was obvious to all. In addition to music, the young genius was interested in poetry (he wrote poetry), and two years later, Julian became interested in philosophy and architecture.
the Next year brought Tatyana Schletzer-Scriabin and children the hardest test in April from a blood infection and died on Alexander. The death of the father of the family put family in a difficult financial situation. Also, coincidentally, the contract for the rental of the apartment in which lived Scriabin expired on the day of the death of the composer. To help the widow came close friends who organized the Scriabin society in Petrograd and Moscow and is collecting funds for the payment of the rent for the apartment.
two years later, in Russia, the Civil war began, and in 1918 Schletzer-Scriabin decided to take the children to Kiev. There are 10-year-old Julian entered the Kiev Conservatory. Study was given easily, the other students were jealous of him and the teachers loved him. In June 1919, having successfully passed exams, Julian went to the Dnieper. There was tragedy: the boy, submitting the big hopes, drowned.
Julian lived only 11 years, but managed to leave a creative legacy, his works are still admired pianists performing around the world. The General public knows few of the preludes, composed by the young composer.
still it is not known exactly how many children participated in the fighting during the great Patriotic war. Among the young heroes was Sergei Solovyov and Victor kussakin. Their joint picture stored in the State Museum of defense of Moscow.
Both boys were born in Naro-Fominsk. When the Soviet Union attacked the Germans, Vite was 11 years old, and Serezha — 10. During the war, the boys lost their parents and decided to join the red army. At first the soldiers did not believe in the sincerity of the boys said they suspected enemy infiltrators. Vitya and Sergei the night I left the camp, and the next morning brought the German machine gun, a fact, proving that they are not traitors. The boys hit the 1-th guards motorized rifle division, which fought for their native Naro-fomisk. The fate of the young defenders of the Motherland were different: Sergei Solovyov survived the war and after its end entered the Suvorov military school, and the fate of Viti Kusakina was tragic.
In war, the Victor carried the flyers and was engaged in intelligence activities: disguised as a street kid and learned the location of enemy military equipment. During one of these raids he noticed German soldiers. Suspecting something, they detained the boy. Victor tried to escape but was caught. On all quesdew boy did not say anything. The photo that is stored in the Museum of defense of Moscow, it is clear that Victor is hiding his right hand was mutilated during interrogation. The night a young soldier was able to get out of the barn, where he was held. To his regiment he traveled eight days, the last 30 kilometers he had to crawl.
the Boy wanted to evacuate, but opravivshis Victor was back in the ranks. 17 Dec 1943, he was killed during the liberation of Belarus, killing nine before that of the Nazis.
“a Tragedy has become a triumph” — that describe the epic rescue of the crew stuck in the ice steamer “Chelyuskin”. The events of 1933-1934 years left in the history of the Soviet Union as an example of courage of the ship’s crew and the heroism of the pilots and rescuers. About 100 people were waiting for their salvation more than six months. Shortly before the steamer was squeezed by ice of the Chukchi sea, on Board there was very little passenger in the Vasiliev family had a daughter Karina.
Her mother Dorothea Vasilyev could not get to the ship “Chelyuskin” — the ship’s doctor was afraid to take a swimming pregnant woman. However, her presence in the team, insisted the chief of expedition Otto Schmidt. Dorothea gave birth to a girl before the ship got into the ice trap, August 31, 1933, and it became a great event not only for young parents but also for the crew.
the name of the newborn chose the world. Familiar ear of the Soviet man, the names Masha, Tanya, Olga, after a short discussion, was rejected. Someone suggested to name the baby Karina: at the time of birth of the child “Chelyuskin” was in the waters of the Kara sea. The name everyone liked, and the captain himself filled out a certificate. In the column “place of birth”, he pointed out the coordinates and wrote: “the Kara sea, the steamer “Chelyuskin””.
the sculpted portrait, preserved in the Museum of heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, in addition to newborn, and depicts one of the pilots who participated in the rescue Chelyuskinites — Anatoly liapidevskii. He first noticed the camp of the survivors and carried several passengers to a safe place.
