Alla Aleksandrovna Rusakova (nee Elyashevich ; January 19, 1923 - July 30, 2013 ) - Soviet and Russian art critic, author of several books on the history of Russian and Soviet art, doctor of art history [1] [2] [3] .
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| Birth name | Alla Aleksandrovna Elyashevich |
| Date of Birth | January 19, 1923 |
| Date of death | July 30, 2013 (90 years) |
| A country |  USSR →  Russia |
| Scientific field | art history |
| Alma mater | Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Art |
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Biography
Alla Elyashevich was born on January 19, 1923 [2] in the family of the Russian politician and economist Alexander Elyashevich [4] . In 1940 she entered the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (LIZSA, now the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin ), which she graduated with honors in 1948, receiving an art degree. The theme of the thesis is “Portraits of M. V. Nesterov ” [2] . After graduation, she worked as a research fellow at the State Russian Museum , and was also the head of the graphics department and chief curator of the Scientific Research Museum of the USSR Academy of Arts [3] .
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| A. A. Rusakova and Yu. A. Rusakov (second half of the 1950s) [four] | |
In 1952, she married art critic Yuri Rusakov, the son of artists Tatyana Kupervasser and Alexander Rusakov . In February 1967, at a meeting of the Academic Council of Leningrad State University, she defended her thesis based on a monograph on the work of the artist V. E. Borisov-Musatov [4] . Since 1968, mainly engaged in scientific and literary activities [3] .
In 1980 [4] Alla Rusakova defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic “Pavel Kuznetsov” (based on the eponymous monograph on the work of the artist P. V. Kuznetsov ) and received a doctorate in art history [5] . She was a member of the St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Union of Artists (art criticism section) since 1956 [6] .
Alla Rusakova wrote a number of monographs and articles on the history of Russian and Soviet art of the 19th-20th centuries, as well as on the works of artists Viktor Borisov-Musatov , Zinaida Serebryakova , Mikhail Nesterov , Pavel Kuznetsov and others [7] . She worked on the problems of pictorial symbolism [3] .
Died July 30, 2013 [1] .
Compositions by A. A. Rusakova
- Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov. - Leningrad, Artist of the RSFSR, 1964 (author of an introductory article)
- Victor Elpidifirovich Borisov-Musatov. - Leningrad — Moscow, Art, 1966
- Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov. From letters. - Leningrad, Art, 1968 (2nd edition - 1988; compiler and author of the introductory article)
- Borisov-Musatov. - Leningrad, Art, 1974
- Pavel Kuznetsov. - Leningrad, Art, 1977
- Mikhail Nesterov. - Leningrad, Aurora, 1990
- Symbolism in Russian painting: protosymbolism, Mikhail Vrubel, The World of Art, Victor Borisov-Musatov, The Blue Rose, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. - Moscow, Art, 1995
- Symbolism in Russian painting. - Moscow, White City, 2001
- Zinaida Serebryakova. - Moscow, Art - XXI century, 2006
- Zinaida Serebryakova. - Moscow, Young Guard, 2008 (2nd edition - 2011; 3rd edition - 2017)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Rusakova Alla Alexandrovna (HTML). St. Petersburg Union of Artists - spbsh.ru. Date of treatment November 8, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Anniversary Directory of Graduates of the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. Repin of the Russian Academy of Arts, 1915-2005 /S. B. Alekseev . - M .: SPbGAIZHSA named after I.E. Repin , 2007 .-- S. 434-435. - 790 s.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Authors: Rusakova Alla Alexandrovna (HTML). Young guard - gvardiya.ru. Date of treatment November 8, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 M. Yu. German . Memories of the XX century. The second book. Incomplete time. Imparfait. - M .: ABC-Atticus , 2018 .-- S. 434-435. - 790 s. - ISBN 978-5-389-15091-1 .
- ↑ Rusakova, Alla Alexandrovna. Pavel Kuznetsov (HTML). Russian State Library - rsl.ru. Date of treatment November 8, 2018.
- ↑ Art History Section (HTML). St. Petersburg Union of Artists - spbsh.ru. Date of treatment November 8, 2018.
- ↑ Publications of Alla Alexandrovna Rusakova (HTML). Russian State Library - rsl.ru. Date of appeal October 30, 2018.
Links
- Rusakova Alla Alexandrovna , St. Petersburg Union of Artists - spbsh.ru