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January 22, 2022<\/p>\n

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\u201eThe Brilliance of Russian painters\u201c exhibition in Vrsac \u2013 a tribute to \u201ewhite\u201c Russians<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition \u201eThe Brilliance of Russian painters ” opens today at the City Museum in Vrsac, where the works of “white” Russians in Yugoslavia will be presented. Nikola Kusovac, who will open the exhibition, reminds of the importance of “white” Russians and their role in development of Serbian culture and assesses that we, as a society and nation, are not ungrateful to them, but that we are negligent.<\/p>\n

The exhibition \u201eThe Brilliance of Russian painters “,\u00a0 which opens on Saturday, January 22 at the City Museum in Vrsac, will present works by “white” Russians who settled in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the October Revolution, from the collection of Vladimir Peshich. The exhibition will be opened by art historian and longtime curator of the National Museum in Belgrade, Nikola Kusovac.<\/p>\n

Nikola Kusovac’s personal debt to Russian emigrants<\/p>\n

Nikola Kusovac says for Sputnik that as the Serbian proverb says \u201edog does not bark for the sake of the village, but for its own sake\u201c, he reluctantly accepted the invitation to open the exhibition because he felt \u201ean unpaid debt to Russian emigrants\u201c.<\/p>\n

\u201eI owe most of my life to the exceptional pediatrician from Cetinje, Vladimir Petrovich Gerasimovich, a Russian born in Kiev. Not only did he treat me when I was a child during World War II, but he also provided food for me. One of my neighbors was another Russian emigrant, Vasily Shuchkin, who ran a children’s theater in Cetinje, gathered young people and taught us acting. He used to come to my mother every morning and ask how I was\u201c, says Kusovac.<\/p>\n

According to him, the two of them came to Cetinje at the same time when the largest number of Russian emigrants came and \u201efit with our trouble remarkably well\u201c. Our country lost \u201ealmost all biologically potent and capable men in the First World War\u201c, and then 40.000 \u2013 50.000 real men came – engineers, officers, doctors, Russians, who got involved in all areas of our life.<\/p>\n

Students of Repin in Vrsac, painters who \u201eopened the 20th century\u201c<\/p>\n

Compared to engineers, musicians or theater directors, Russian painters probably have contributed to Serbian culture nothing less, according to Kusovac. However, he singles out one \u201egrandmaster of his work\u201c, whose painting will be exhibited at the exhibition in Vrsac \u2013 Stepan Fyodorovich Kolesnikov, a student of Repin.<\/p>\n

Paintings by another of Repin’s students, Nikolai Kuznetsov, will also be presented. This artist was a member of the most famous Russian artists group, so-called The Wanderers. It is a movement in Russian art during the fifties and sixties of the 19th century, at the time when \u201eDanilevsky works miracles and explains why the West and the East are not compatible\u201c.<\/p>\n

\u201eThe Wanderers went to the people to raise the folk culture and main personalities in this sphere were Repin, Kravckoi and they all were related to Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov, whose several paintings we will see in Vrsac, is on the famous painting painted by Repin, the most significant painting in the 19th century \u2013 \u2018Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks\u2019 and that portrait is kept in the National Museum in Belgrade\u201c, reveals Kusovac.<\/p>\n

According to him, Kuznetsov is one of the painters who defined modern art, i.e. \u201eopened the world art of the 20th century\u201c. Among the works that can be seen in Vrsac, he singles out paintings by Ippolit Maikovsky, the grandson of the world’s greatest maritime artist Aivazovsky.<\/p>\n

Vrsac and Bela Crkva \u2013 bastions of “white” Russians<\/p>\n

Kusovac reminds that the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was the only country in Europe at that time that allowed “white” Russians to open military schools and garrisons on their territory, which is why “the Comintern and the Red International did not like us\u201c. One of the places where they had their garrison was Bela Crkva, which is located near Vrsac.<\/p>\n

\u201eVrsac and Bela Crkva are bastions of white Russians and a good part of the painters whose works will be on exhibited on this exhibition are from Banat. Those are not some big names, but they were initiators, culture-bearers. To be a culture-bearer is not something insignificant because we are talking about expanding the culture\u201c, believes Kusovac.<\/p>\n

We are not ungrateful \u2013 we are negligent<\/p>\n

The influence of Russian painters on Serbian painting was greater later and it came through the second generation, which came with the great Serbian nationalist Ljubomir Michich and his magazine \u201eZenit\u201c.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Michich, who gave space to painters like Kandinsky and Archipenko, Serbian painting relied on the most advanced line of European painting, which was interrupted by the October Revolution. However, it came to us with a delay of two decades, and we did not “catch up” with the Russian avant-garde “very well” because we “fell in love with the French”, believes Kusovac.<\/p>\n

\u201eWe are not ungrateful to Russian emigrants; we cannot be ungrateful as long as there are people who remember them. However, we are negligent. We are not ungrateful because we have that awareness, but we often work unsystematically\u201c, concluded Kusovac.<\/p>\n

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