Vera Georgyevna Morozova ( September 13 [26], 1903 [1] , Mysovsk , Trans-Baikal Region [2] - November 20, 1990 , Ufa ) - Russian sculptor , the first female sculptor in Bashkiria [3] .
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Biography
Childhood Vera Morozova passed in Irkutsk . She graduated from the 6th grade of the gymnasium. She was a self-taught sculptor; she did not receive special education [3] .
In 1931 she moved to Taganrog with her husband, Alexander Morrison , appointed editor of the Taganrog Pravda newspaper. In Taganrog, Vera Morozova was actively involved in the social and artistic life of the city. Together with her husband, she took an active part in the creation of the A.P. Chekhov Museum [4] , participated in exhibitions of local artists [5] .
In June 1936, at the city art exhibition in Taganrog, Morozova's sketch sculpture “Bust of Maxim Gorky” [5] was presented.
In November 1936, her husband was arrested. At the February-March plenary session of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1937, it was reported that a plan of attempt on Stalin had been developed in the Azov-Black Sea Territory . The investigation assigned the role of a liaison with foreign intelligence to Alexander Morrison [6] .
In 1937, she was exiled with her young daughter to the Tatar village of Bakaly of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as the wife of an “enemy of the people” convicted under Art. 58-10 and sentenced to 10 years in camps without the right to correspondence (she learned about the shooting of A. Morrison Morozov many years later). In exile she worked as an embroiderer in the Kultizdelia artel. Then in the Bashkir workshops of the Art Fund of the RSFSR (1944-1960). Together with Tamara Nechaeva participated in the creation of the Bashkir school of sculptors.
In 1934, her monuments to M. Gorky and G. Dimitrov were erected. A bust of Chekhov by Vera Morozova, installed in 1935 in Taganrog , near Chekhov’s house, became the first monument to the writer in the USSR . In Bashkiria, the compositions "Bashkir Dance", "Leningradka", monuments-busts of G. M. Mingazhev , Alexander Matrosov, Mazhit Gafuri were created . According to the original works of Vera Morozova, monumental monuments “Miners” were created, installed in Kumertau , Sibay , Korkino , Karaganda ( jointly with T. P. Nechaeva ). Morozova's works laid the foundation for the sculptural foundation of the Bashkir State Art Museum named after M.V. Nesterov in Ufa.
She died on November 20, 1990 in Ufa .
Works are in collections
- State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow [7] .
- Literary Museum of A.P. Chekhov, Taganrog .
- Bashkir State Art Museum named after M.V. Nesterov
The most famous works
- Bust of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ( 1935 , Taganrog )
- Bust of Maxim Gorky ( 1936 , Taganrog) [5]
- Bust of Alexander Matrosov ( 1948 , State Tretyakov Gallery )
- Bust of Mazhita Gafuri ( Gafuri region )
Family
- Morozov, Georgy Georgievich ( 1880 - 1934 ) - father, state and party worker.
- Morrison, Alexander Platonovich ( 1902 - 1937 ) - husband, journalist, editor of the Taganrogskaya Pravda newspaper.
- Morozova, Nelly Alexandrovna ( 1924 - 2015 ) - daughter, editor, screenwriter.
- Bakhnov, Vladlen Efimovich ( 1924 - 1994 ) - son-in-law, poet, journalist, playwright, screenwriter.
- Bakhnov, Leonid Vladlenovich ( 1948 ) - grandson, Russian philologist, prose writer, critic [8] .
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Sources
- ↑ Minnigulova F.M. Morozova Vera Georgievna . Bashkir Encyclopedia. Date of treatment December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Now - Babushkin , Kabansky district , Buryatia , Russia .
- ↑ 1 2 Shkurko E. A. “Unconquered Will” of the artist Archived on November 7, 2014. // Youth newspaper. - 2009. - Aug 13.
- ↑ Morozova N.A. My addiction to Dickens. Family Chronicle of the 20th Century. - M .: New Chronograph, 2011. - S. 27. - ISBN 978-5-94881-170-3 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Morrison A. Painting Exhibition // Taganrog Truth. - 1936. - June 30.
- ↑ Morozova N.A. My addiction to Dickens. Family Chronicle of the 20th Century. - M .: New chronograph, 2011. - S. 178. - ISBN 978-5-94881-170-3 .
- ↑ Morozova N. My addiction to Dickens. Family Chronicle of the 20th Century. - M.: New Chronograph, 2011 .-- S. 289.
- ↑ Obukhovskaya L. Leonid Bakhnov: Humor is a saving straw An archived copy of March 6, 2016 on the Wayback Machine // Crimean Truth. - 2013. - Oct 6.