Peter Mikhailovich Shamshin ( 1811 - 1895 ) - historical and church painter of the academic direction, academician (since 1844 ), professor (since 1853 ), privy councilor .
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| Date of Birth | January 10, 1811 | ||||||
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| Date of death | February 6, 1895 (84 years old) | ||||||
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| Ranks | Academician of IAH (1844) [1] professor of IAH (1853) [1] | ||||||
| Awards | IAH pension (1836) [1] | ||||||
Biography
The son of academician-painter M.N. Shamshin . At the age of ten, he was identified as a pupil of the Imperial Academy of Arts . It was among the students of Professor P.V. Basin .
He graduated from the academy in 1838 with the title of artist with the right to the rank of XIV class and with a small gold medal received for the picture: β Hector reproaches Paris for inactionβ. In 1836 , he was awarded a large gold medal for the painting βBeating the Children of Niobe β.
Since 1838 he lived and worked in Italy , where he stayed for seven years, after returning to St. Petersburg he taught painting in the classes of the academy. In 1844 , for the paintings β Hagar in the Desertβ and β Peter the Great in a Storm on Lahti,β he received the title of academician.
In 1853 , for his great image: βThe Resurrection of Christβ (located in the academy's house church), he was awarded the title of professor. In 1859 , due to a change in the charter of the academy, Shamshin was transferred from teachers to associate professor. In 1863 he was promoted to professor of the 1st degree, in 1883 he was appointed rector of painting and sculpture. Shortly before his death, with the introduction of the new charter of the academy, he was dismissed.
He was buried in the Smolensk Orthodox cemetery [2] . The grave has not been preserved [3] .
Creativity
A skillful draftsman of a routine and academic direction, cold in his compositions and an unimportant colorist, Shamshin was engaged almost exclusively in church painting. His images and wall paintings are in many St. Petersburg churches: in St. Isaac's Cathedral , in the church of St. Myronius of the Life Jaeger Regiment, the Annunciation Life Guards Horse Regiment of the Church, the Greek Embassy, ββPavlovsk Institute, University, Engineering School, Post Office ("Vision of St. Constantine" ), as well as in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior (painting on the walls of the chapel of St. Nicholas and a large painting "Presentation of the Lord"), in Gatchina city's cathedral, in Sioni Cathedral in Tbilisi , in the church of St. Peter and Paul at None olaevskom engineering school , in the church of Ivangorod to Narva , Ujazdowski Hospital in Warsaw , Russian Embassy in Athens and some others.
In the Imperial Hermitage they painted the hall of Etruscan vases. Of the few Shamshinβs paintings on subjects from Russian history, only two appeared at public exhibitions: the aforementioned image of an episode from the life of Peter the Great (in 1844 ) and βThe Call of Mikhail Fedorovich to the Kingdomβ (in 1876 ).
| Peter Mikhailovich Shamshin (future rector) was a tall, important, slow-moving old man of a senatorial appearance, shaved, tightly fastened, and correct. He approached, or rather, sat down at the drawing on the evening, took a folder from the student and looked at the drawing and the sitter for a long time. Then slowly, a little in the nose, he said, almost the same thing to everyone: "Yes, sir, please see, we have an ankle in place." He straightened his ankle and continued: βYes, nowadays, please, see the late Karl Pavlovich Bryullov said ...β etc. After sitting around the drawing for about ten minutes, I went on to the next with more or less homogeneous speeches. Shamshin was a conscientious, but not talented person, who was late for many years with his artistic views and methods. | ||||
- M.V. Nesterov "Long days" | ||||
Notes
- β 1 2 3 4 List of Russian artists for the anniversary directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts, 1915 , p. 220.
- β Grave on the plan of the cemetery // Division IV // All Petersburg for 1914, address and reference book of St. Petersburg / Ed. A.P. Shashkovsky. - SPb. : Partnership of A. S. Suvorin - βNew Timeβ, 1914. - ISBN 5-94030-052-9 .
- β A.V. Kobak, Yu. M. Piryutko , Historical Cemeteries of St. Petersburg, M., Centerpolygraph, 2011, p.345, ISBN 978-5-227-02688-0
Literature
- Shamshin, Pyotr Mikhailovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- S. N. Kondakov. Anniversary Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts. 1764-1914 . - St. Petersburg: Partnership R. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1915. - T. 2 (Biographical part). - S. 219-220. - 459 p.
- Shamshin Petr Mikhailovich // List of civil ranks of the fourth class. Corrected on October 15th, 1876. - SPb. : Printing House of the Governing Senate , 1876. - S. 834.
- Shamshin Petr Mikhailovich // List of civil ranks of the first three classes. Corrected on October 1, 1894. - SPb. : Printing House of the Governing Senate , 1894. - S. 421.