The painter and graphic artist Andrey Alekseevich Yakovlev was born on November 10, 1934 in Moscow. He studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, then at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin, in the class of Evsey Evseevich Moiseenko.

Andrey Yakovlev considered himself one of those people who were destined to face “the terrible and beautiful world, the name of which name is the Arctic.” The artist had so many impressions from his trips that he could hardly fit all his experiences into one artwork or a few paintings. The painter combined them into series that included narrative paintings, landscapes, still lifes and portraits. These were the cycles of paintings called “Svalbard”, “Chukotka”, “Taimyr”, “Leningrad Kilometers of BAM” and the books “Seven Centimeters from the Pole” and “Kakomei”.

Since the mid-1970s, Andrey Alekseevich has found a new source of inspiration — a house in the village of Pavshino on the banks of the Oredezh River in the Leningrad Region. Andrey Yakovlev said about the village of Pavshino: “A corner of paradise. All landscapes and still lifes were conceived and painted there. And there is no need to move away from your home farther than 50 meters in order to look for some motifs.” There, the artist painted a series of landscapes and still lifes under the general title “My Pavshino”. In 2005, this series of works was awarded the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. In 2009, the artist changed the name of the series to “Our Pavshino”.

“The Savior of the Honey Feast Day” is a painting that captivates with its simple and poignant nostalgia.