Vedic Rus' part 4. Konstantin Vasiliev (38 works)

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Konstantin Alekseevich Vasilyev (September 3, 1942, Maykop, Adygea Autonomous Region - October 29, 1976, Vasilyevo town, Zelenodolsk region of the TASSR) - Russian artist, whose creative heritage includes more than 400 works of painting and graphics: portraits, landscapes, realistic compositions, paintings of epic, mythological and battle genres.

Since 1949 he lived in the village of Vasilyevo near Kazan. He studied at the Kazan Art School (1957-1961). He worked as a drawing and drawing teacher in a high school and as a graphic designer. Vasiliev’s creative heritage is extensive: paintings, graphics, sketches, illustrations, sketches for painting a church in Omsk. Works from the early 1960s. marked by the influence of surrealism and abstract expressionism (“String”, 1963; “Abstract Compositions”, 1963). In the late 1960s gt. abandoned formalistic searches and worked in a realistic manner.

Vasiliev turned to folk art: Russian songs, epics, fairy tales, Scandinavian and Irish sagas, and “Eddic poetry.” He created works on mythological subjects, heroic themes of the Slavic and Scandinavian epics, about the Great Patriotic War (“Marshal Zhukov”, “Invasion”, “Forty-First Parade”, “Longing for the Motherland”, all - 1974).

He also worked in the genre of landscape and portrait (“Swans”, 1967; “Northern Eagle”, 1969; “At the Well”, 1973; “Waiting”, 1976; “Man with an Eagle Owl”, 1976). Author of a graphic series of portraits of composers and musicians: “Shostakovich” (1961), “Beethoven” (1962), “Scriabin” (1962), “Rimsky-Korsakov” (1962) and others; graphic cycle to R. Wagner’s opera “The Ring of the Nibelungs” (1970s).

Participant of the republican exhibition “Satirist Artists of Kazan” (Moscow, 1963), exhibitions in Zelenodolsk and Kazan (1968-76). In the 1980-90s. A number of personal exhibitions of Vasiliev took place in many cities of Russia, as well as in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Spain. The Memorial Museum was opened in the village. Vasilyevo (1996), Art Gallery in Kazan (1996) and the Konstantin Vasilyev Museum in Moscow, in Lianozovsky Park (1998). Prize of the Komsomol of Tatarstan named after. M. Jalil for a series of paintings about the Great Patriotic War (in 1988).

Konstantin Vasiliev died tragically - he was hit together with a friend at a railway crossing by a passing train. This happened on October 29, 1976. He was buried in the village of Vasilyevo. They buried Konstantin in a birch grove, in the very forest where he loved to be.