Boklevsky biography is brief

After graduating from the Ryazan gymnasium, he studied at the Law Faculty of Moscow University - in one of the works “On Roman Possession”, he outlined critical views on the system of serfdom in Russia. Refusing to rewrite this essay “in the right manner”, he left the university, and without receiving the title “candidate Pravkinovsky served as the provincial secretary in Ryazan.

He lived in two cities, while in St. Petersburg, took lessons from a professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts A. Egorov, with K. Bryullov’s academic class and P.'s workshop standing out among his students with his education and breadth of views, Boklevsky brought the critical spirit of Moscow University to the academy. A capable cartoonist, he did not ignore the academic teachers, "unusually briskly and evil painted caricatures on them, and so whipped that the professors came into fury." Without getting along the Academy, Boklevsky began working in the workshop of sculptor P.

Boklevsky was the author of drawings for the sculptural horses P. Klodt on the Anichkovo Bridge in St. Petersburg. However, then Boklevsky again showed his character, left Bryullov’s course after the scandal with the painting “The Secret Office”, which he refused to redo, depicting Christ and the apostles not according to the classic canons, but on the roof of the building sitting “in the eastern manner”.

Nevertheless, he soon became a noticeable artist. He created curious ethnographic series in the album "Furious types of Russian nationality." To focus the psychological characteristics of the heroes, Boklevsky resorts to the method of “zoologization” of characters, creating “pork” or “bird” types of faces. And becomes a famous master of portraitarge. In the year, the certificate of the Academy was issued to Boklevsky.

The Council recognized him worthy of the "title of a free artist in painting portrait watercolor." In the same year, the artist went abroad. He studied art in the museums of France, Italy, Spain. Working in Paris, in the workshop of Lature and Vidal, was engaged in pastel painting. The journey lasted about two years. Boklevsky collected materials for the universal history of arts, which at that time was not in Russian.

However, his dream was not destined to be realized, all these materials, books and sketches disappeared upon returning to Russia. Material circumstances forced the artist to take on custom portraits, he performed a lot of portrait miniatures. The unusual skill of Boklevsky to transfer the similarity, the subtle technique of execution increased the demand for his works. Work in miniature influenced the entire subsequent manner of drawing the artist.

Boklevsky is actively engaged in social activities. After returning to the Ryazan province, he is elected the justice of the peace of the Skopinsky district, the provincial vowel, later the honorary justice of the peace. And, up to the death, writes new works. In Ryazan, his caricatures for the tyranny of the local governor P. Kozhin later lived mainly in Moscow. The last period of the artist’s life was difficult due to poverty and disease, but he worked on illustrations almost until his death.

His drawings and watercolors are full of romantic irony. Boklevsky also acted as a political cartoonist of the album “For the current war”, for the cycle of lithographs “for the current war” in the year, Emperor Alexander II awarded the Ryazan artist with a personalant rings. But Currently, Boklevsky showed himself after rapprochement with the literary world of Moscow, devoting himself to a book illustration.

Living in the years in Moscow, the artist became close to the writers from the editorial office of Moskvityanin, grouped around Ostrovsky. This circle included writers P. Melnikov-Pechersky, A. Pisemsky, A. Grigoryev, actors P. Sadovsky and I. Gorbunov, musicians, C. Dutsh and N. Rubinstein, sculptor N. Their interest in folk life, in Russian national art was combined with the idealization of the patriarchal of old Moscow.

For Pyotr Boklevsky, this communication played a very large role, it essentially determined the direction of all its further creativity. Since that time and for life, his artistic skill was given to illustration. The fact that even candy candy wrappers of the 19th century were decorated with P.smails, even candy fanticas of the 19th century, is also evidenced about the popularity of the artist’s drawings.

Boklevsky heroes. Later, literature textbooks of the Soviet period were certainly supplied with colorful illustrations. A native of the Ryazan Territory Peter Mikhailovich Boklevsky died in Moscow on January 10.

But he was buried in his small homeland, in the city of Skopin, in the Trinity Grove on the territory of the Holy Trinity Monastery, where he established an excellent marble monument “Sorrowing Angel”.