Boris Ivanovich Yakovlev (1884-1963) - Russian and Soviet sculptor, worked mostly in the field of easel sculpture. Doctor of Art History [1] , teacher. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree in 1945.
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Participation in exhibitions
- 3 Awards
- 4 Portraits
- 5 Family
- 6 notes
- 7 Literature
Biography
B. I. Yakovlev was born in 1884 in Kazan . In 1911 he graduated from the Imperial University of St. Petersburg , in 1917 - the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg [2] . The student of G. R. Zaleman [2] and V. A. Beklemishev . For some time before the revolution he lived in Italy [3] .
After the revolution, in connection with a good knowledge of the Italian language, he held the post of consul of Soviet Russia in the Italian city of Civitavecchia [3] .
Some works in the field of easel sculpture: “Sorrow” (1910s) 
, “ Perseus with the Head of Medusa ” (1917), busts of V.V. Vorovsky (1924) [2] and Bogdan Khmelnitsky [4] , “Female Head” (1927) [4] , “On Guard” (1929) [4 ] , "The Head of the Red Army" (1932) , " I. V. Stalin ." Member of many exhibitions. The author of a number of projects of monuments [2] .
In the 1940s, he took part in the internal architectural design of the Lenin Mausoleum , including the creation of a new glass sarcophagus [2] . After the return of Lenin’s body in 1945 from the evacuation of K.S. Melnikov ’s sarcophagus, he was replaced by a sarcophagus designed by A.V. Shchusev and B.I. Yakovlev.
Professor since 1917. In 1920-1930 he taught at the Odessa Art Institute [4] . At the beginning of the 1930s, he directed the continuing education of sculptors in Leningrad (among his students during this period, E. V. Vuchetich can be distinguished) [5] . Since the mid-1930s he lived in Moscow. Professor of the Moscow Art Institute [1] .
Boris Ivanovich Yakovlev died in Moscow in 1963 [4] . He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery (section 4, row 5) [1] .
Participation in exhibitions
- Competitive exhibition in IAH - "Sorrow"
- 1917 - Report exhibition IAH - "Perseus with the head of Medusa"
- 1927 - All-Ukrainian anniversary exhibition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution ( Kiev - Odessa )
- 1929 - Second All-Ukrainian Exhibition of the People's Commissariat of Ukraine ( Kharkov )
- 1932 - Anniversary exhibition "Artists of the RSFSR for XV years" ( Leningrad ) - porcelain plastic: "Pilav ”(“ Uzbek with a bowl ”) , "The head of the Red Army" , "Red Armyman on a Horse"
Awards and Prizes
- Laureate of the Stalin Prize in the field of literature and art of the second degree for 1945 (section “Architecture”; decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR published on June 27, 1946), together with Shchusev A.V. , Gorbachev N.V. , Mayzel S.O. and Fedotov N. D. - “for the internal architectural design of the Mausoleum of V.I. Lenin ”
Portraits
Famous portraits of B. I. Yakovlev:
- brushes by Vasily Zverev (1916, oil on canvas, 102 × 78 cm, State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow) [6]
- brushes by Alexei Shovkunenko (1944, watercolor, Museum of Ukrainian Fine Arts, Kiev) [7]
- brushes by Alexander Gerasimov (1950, oil on canvas, 125 × 100 cm, State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg) [8] . As the art critic Brodsky wrote about this picture, the artist reveals in it “an inquiring and keen mind, a keen interest in the work, liveliness and immediacy of character” by the sculptor Yakovlev, “we have a live interlocutor in front of us,“ captured ”at the time of an easy conversation” [9] .
Family
Wife: Yakovleva (nee Chernyshevskaya) Nadezhda Pavlovna (1909-1944), actress [1] . She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery (section 4, row 5) [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Kipnis, 1995 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Vvedensky (eds.), 1957 .
- ↑ 1 2 Emelyanov, 1979 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Kubіyovich (eds.), 1984 .
- ↑ Vuchetich Evgeny Viktorovich (Inaccessible link) . State Tretyakov Gallery. Date of treatment October 17, 2016. Archived October 18, 2016.
- ↑ State Tretyakov Gallery. Catalog of paintings of the XVIII - early XX century (until 1917). - M .: Fine Arts, 1984. - S. 155.
- ↑ Shovkunenko Alexey Alekseevich // Chagan - Aix-les-Bains. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1978. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vols.] / Ch. Ed. A. M. Prokhorov ; 1969-1978, vol. 29).
- ↑ State Russian Museum. General catalog of the museum collection. Painting: in 15 volumes / ed. V.A. Lenyashin . - SPb. : Palace Edition, 2000. - T. 9: The first half of the XX century (G - I). - S. 21. - 142 p.
- ↑ Brodsky I.A. Russian Soviet painting // Wonderful paintings. - L .: Artist of the RSFSR, 1964. - 50,000 copies.
Literature
- Yakovlev, Boris Ivanovich : [ arch. January 31, 2015 ] // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : in 51 volumes / chap. ed. B. A. Vvedensky . - 2nd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1957. - T. 49: Elokventsiya - Yaya. - S. 529. - 680 p. - 300,000 copies.
- Yakovlev Boris // Encyclopedia of Ukrainian studies : [ Ukrainian ] : at 10 t. / goal ed. V. Kubіyovich . - Paris; New York: Young Life, 1984. - T. 10: Khmelnitsky - Yaschurzhinsky . - S. 3965-3966. - 4016 s.
- Emelyanov V. S. Acquaintance with the sculptor B. I. Yakovlev : [ arch. October 19, 2016 ] // How it started. - M .: Soviet Russia, 1979. - 320 p.
- Kipnis S. E. Novodevichy Memorial: Necropolis of Novodevichy Cemetery / Comp. S.E. Kipnis. - M .: Propylaea, 1995 .-- S. 142. - 432 p. - ISBN 5-7354-0023-1 .