Pavel Petrovich Bazhov and his wife Valentina Alexandrovna had seven children, but three of them died in infancy due to diseases. The remaining children — Olga, Elena, Alexey and Ariadna — grew up together in an atmosphere of mutual love and respect.
The photo presented in the museum’s exhibition was taken by the writer’s son Alyosha in the late 1920s — early 1930s. It depicts his younger sister Ariadna, who feeds the chickens in the courtyard of Bazhov’s residence.
Alexey Pavlovich was born just before the Russian Revolution in Kamyshlov, when Pavel Bazhov was a member of a revolutionary society. At a very early age, the boy, along with his mother and sisters, went through the tragic events of the Civil War, parting with his father, the death of his younger brother, and a secret move to the Altai — to Ust-Kamenogorsk — and then back to the Urals with a gravely ill Pavel Petrovich.
Classmates of Alyosha Bazhov recalled that he was “a black-haired thoughtful boy with large, expressive eyes. He was very fond of poetry and, perhaps, even composed poems, but in his extreme shyness he never showed them to us. Nor did he say that his father was a writer, a well-known journalist in the region. Alyosha was noticeably different from most of his peers, as he was very well-read.”
Alyosha wrote poetry and played various musical instruments: guitar, accordion, and mandolin, which he mastered on his own. In addition, he enjoyed photography. Bazhov’s son had his own camera, and in the kitchen of their family home there was a room divider in the corner, behind which the young man made a darkroom where he developed films.
The age difference between Bazhov’s younger children was nine years. The teenager Alyosha, as the eldest, was tasked with looking after a very young Ariadna. The latter wrote in her memoirs that she and her brother often quarreled, but they were very close.
Despite his obvious creative abilities, Alexey chose to be a laborer — he enrolled in a school of factory apprenticeship to become a welder.
In November 1935, a tragedy occurred: while training at a factory in the town of Kalata, present-day Kirovgrad, under unclear circumstances, the nineteen-year-old Alexey Bazhov died in an explosion.
The photo presented in the museum’s exhibition was taken by the writer’s son Alyosha in the late 1920s — early 1930s. It depicts his younger sister Ariadna, who feeds the chickens in the courtyard of Bazhov’s residence.
Alexey Pavlovich was born just before the Russian Revolution in Kamyshlov, when Pavel Bazhov was a member of a revolutionary society. At a very early age, the boy, along with his mother and sisters, went through the tragic events of the Civil War, parting with his father, the death of his younger brother, and a secret move to the Altai — to Ust-Kamenogorsk — and then back to the Urals with a gravely ill Pavel Petrovich.
Classmates of Alyosha Bazhov recalled that he was “a black-haired thoughtful boy with large, expressive eyes. He was very fond of poetry and, perhaps, even composed poems, but in his extreme shyness he never showed them to us. Nor did he say that his father was a writer, a well-known journalist in the region. Alyosha was noticeably different from most of his peers, as he was very well-read.”
Alyosha wrote poetry and played various musical instruments: guitar, accordion, and mandolin, which he mastered on his own. In addition, he enjoyed photography. Bazhov’s son had his own camera, and in the kitchen of their family home there was a room divider in the corner, behind which the young man made a darkroom where he developed films.
The age difference between Bazhov’s younger children was nine years. The teenager Alyosha, as the eldest, was tasked with looking after a very young Ariadna. The latter wrote in her memoirs that she and her brother often quarreled, but they were very close.
Despite his obvious creative abilities, Alexey chose to be a laborer — he enrolled in a school of factory apprenticeship to become a welder.
In November 1935, a tragedy occurred: while training at a factory in the town of Kalata, present-day Kirovgrad, under unclear circumstances, the nineteen-year-old Alexey Bazhov died in an explosion.
