Russian poet, novelist, and playwright Pyotr Yershov, after whom the Ishim Museum Complex is named, was born in 1815 in the village of Bezrukovo, Ishim district, Tobolsk Governorate. The poet’s father was a government official, and in 1830 he was transferred to St. Petersburg. In the capital, Yershov entered the Imperial St. Petersburg University. As a student, Yershov wrote a fairy tale in verse “The Little Humpbacked Horse”, which made him famous. During the writer’s lifetime, seven editions of this book were published.
After university, Yershov could not get the position in the capital he wanted and returned to Tobolsk. At first, he worked as a teacher in a gymnasium, and then he headed both the gymnasium and the directorate of all schools in the Tobolsk governorate. One of his students was the future chemist Dmitry Mendeleev. In Ishim, Pyotr Yershov opened a school and an amateur gymnasium theater for women, where he staged his plays and works by other authors.
The painting ‘Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov and his heroes’ from the collection of the Yershov Museum Complex of Ishim City was created in 2014 by a contemporary artist Nikas Safronov.
Safronov was born on April 8, 1956, in Ulyanovsk in a hereditary Orthodox priest’s family. In his youth, he studied icon painting in Sergiyev Posad, and then studied painting at Grekov Art School in Rostov, and after that, he graduated from Vilnius Art Academy and Surikov Art Institute in Moscow.
Safronov’s works are housed in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Pushkin Museum, the State Russian Museum, other federal museums, and in private collections. The artist’s exhibitions are held in Russian and foreign cities. In 2017, an exhibition with 60 works by Safronov was opened in Ishim.
When working on the painting, the artist relied on the lifetime portrait of Yershov by Nikolay Madzhi, who in those years worked as an art teacher in Ishim.
At the bottom, Safronov depicted the characters of the “The Little Humpbacked Horse”: Ivanushka on the left, the Firebird on the right. In the background, one can see a night landscape with a river and a spruce-fir forest. The painting has a wide gilded frame.
After university, Yershov could not get the position in the capital he wanted and returned to Tobolsk. At first, he worked as a teacher in a gymnasium, and then he headed both the gymnasium and the directorate of all schools in the Tobolsk governorate. One of his students was the future chemist Dmitry Mendeleev. In Ishim, Pyotr Yershov opened a school and an amateur gymnasium theater for women, where he staged his plays and works by other authors.
The painting ‘Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov and his heroes’ from the collection of the Yershov Museum Complex of Ishim City was created in 2014 by a contemporary artist Nikas Safronov.
Safronov was born on April 8, 1956, in Ulyanovsk in a hereditary Orthodox priest’s family. In his youth, he studied icon painting in Sergiyev Posad, and then studied painting at Grekov Art School in Rostov, and after that, he graduated from Vilnius Art Academy and Surikov Art Institute in Moscow.
Safronov’s works are housed in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Pushkin Museum, the State Russian Museum, other federal museums, and in private collections. The artist’s exhibitions are held in Russian and foreign cities. In 2017, an exhibition with 60 works by Safronov was opened in Ishim.
When working on the painting, the artist relied on the lifetime portrait of Yershov by Nikolay Madzhi, who in those years worked as an art teacher in Ishim.
At the bottom, Safronov depicted the characters of the “The Little Humpbacked Horse”: Ivanushka on the left, the Firebird on the right. In the background, one can see a night landscape with a river and a spruce-fir forest. The painting has a wide gilded frame.
