Forty Grigory Biography

Originally from serfs. The surname "Soroka" was first his nickname, the artist signed the paintings of the period of classes with A. Venetinov. Venetinov met his future student in the landowner N. Milyukov, the owner of Soroka, and then their regular classes began. An album with fifteen drawings, which mainly depicted the courtyards marked by the artist himself, are stored in the Russian Museum.

Venetianov, who appreciated the talent of his student, tried to bother about his release from serfdom, but Milyukov refused and made his gardener his gardener. Thus, the artist’s fate was decided for many years. With difficulty, reconciled with his borrower fate, he was released only with all serfs in, however, he continued to work and created a whole gallery of magnificent, full lyricism, naive-idyllic paintings.

The increased skill of the artist is evidenced not only by landscapes with idealized figures of the peasants “Fishermen”, E years, the Russian museum, but also the interiors “Cabinet in the islets”, the Russian Museum, as well as portraits “Portrait of E. Milyukova ", the end of the 10ths, Hermitage. The naivety and immediacy of the perception of reality have been preserved in the artist’s later works “View of the Moldino Lake in the Ostrovka estate”, con.

Venetianov attracted Magpie to writing icons for the near churches, unfortunately, the icon “saved the non -commercial” is located in the Tver’s art gallery almost not preserved. Milyukova ”, after the death of Venetianov, in forty lost not only his main spiritual support, but also communicating with other artists. He became an ordinary fortress painter who makes his living with portraits of the surrounding landowners.

He married a yard woman had two sons and a daughter, a family life with whom she failed, and forty began to drink. C, becoming a free man, the artist with his family settled in his native village in his own house. He tried to defend peasant rights: he sent a complaint to Milyukov in the name of Alexander II. However, when the complaint was lowered into the province, he began to threaten bodily punishment.

By this time, Magpie was already a completely sick person, he hanged himself on April 10 in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum, a personal exhibition of works by Grigory Soroka was held, a catalog was released.