Boris Tarelkin, an Honored Artist of the Mari El Republic and member of the Artists’ Union of Russia was born in the Kuban region and graduated from the Krasnodar Art School. The artist’s works are kept in museums and private collections in Russia, Ukraine, Greece, France, Germany, and Spain. Boris Isidorovich’s art is multifaceted and includes beautiful landscapes, portraits filled with an inner tension and surprisingly gentle still lifes. The artist works especially fruitfully in the genre of portrait — he portrays people of different professions, ages and social status. Tarelkin has created a gallery of prominent figures of Russian and world culture and art. The painter seems to be conducting a dialogue with them, revealing their inner world.
The portrait of the Mari linguist and historian Kim Vasin was created in 1987. A translator and teacher, Kim Kirillovich Vasin was one of the leading literary critics and scientists of the Mari El Republic of his time. He was a recipient of the Sergei Chavain State Prize and a People’s Writer of the Mari El Republic. Vasin took up the legacy of the Mari intelligentsia of the 1920s and 1930s. During the war and in the post-war period, more than 30 of his books were published, including novels, short stories, as well as works on literary criticism and local history. The main themes of his literary work were relations between peoples, the struggle of the people for national independence and social justice. His scientific and literary works were printed by central and republican publishing houses. They were also translated into Russian and other languages of the peoples of the USSR.
In the portrait, the writer is depicted at a village house. His face is framed by a narrow gray beard and a dark mustache. He has a high forehead; his thoughtful gaze is directed downwards. The image of the well-educated intellectual is conveyed through the expression of his face and eyes. The writer is depicted at the moment when he contemplates what he has read. He holds glasses in his right hand. Kim Vasin was primarily a literary critic, a writer, who was considered a “walking encyclopedia”, so in the final version of the picture he holds the magazine “U Viy” (“New Power”). A rowan branch in the upper left corner gives the portrait a lyrical mood. The portrait was created with dense, think brush strokes.
The portrait of the Mari linguist and historian Kim Vasin was created in 1987. A translator and teacher, Kim Kirillovich Vasin was one of the leading literary critics and scientists of the Mari El Republic of his time. He was a recipient of the Sergei Chavain State Prize and a People’s Writer of the Mari El Republic. Vasin took up the legacy of the Mari intelligentsia of the 1920s and 1930s. During the war and in the post-war period, more than 30 of his books were published, including novels, short stories, as well as works on literary criticism and local history. The main themes of his literary work were relations between peoples, the struggle of the people for national independence and social justice. His scientific and literary works were printed by central and republican publishing houses. They were also translated into Russian and other languages of the peoples of the USSR.
In the portrait, the writer is depicted at a village house. His face is framed by a narrow gray beard and a dark mustache. He has a high forehead; his thoughtful gaze is directed downwards. The image of the well-educated intellectual is conveyed through the expression of his face and eyes. The writer is depicted at the moment when he contemplates what he has read. He holds glasses in his right hand. Kim Vasin was primarily a literary critic, a writer, who was considered a “walking encyclopedia”, so in the final version of the picture he holds the magazine “U Viy” (“New Power”). A rowan branch in the upper left corner gives the portrait a lyrical mood. The portrait was created with dense, think brush strokes.
