Memories of the Wanderers. Mintchenkov Y.D.

Yakov Danilovich Mintchenkov (1871-1938) - Russian and Soviet painter, sculptor and teacher, student of N. A. Kasatkin and V. A. Serova, active participant in the partnership of mobile art exhibitions. A man of subtle taste, great sensitivity and keen observation, he left us a book of memoirs of artists-forwarding, first published back in 1940 and was very popular for many years.

This “talented, according to K. I. Chukovsky,” the book shining with hot colors ”not only revealed the previously unknown side of the gifted nature of Yakov Danilovich, testifying his undoubted literary talent, but also gave the opportunity“ from the first Hands »Get interesting facts and information about the life of Russian artists, many of which are the glory and pride of domestic culture. On the pages of the book, they are drawn in all the uniqueness of their appearance and character, with all their joys and suffering, creative successes and failures, with all that small and great that was in them.

Memoirs of the Wanderers will not leave the reader indifferent, showing interest in artistic culture, who knows and loves the precious heritage, left to us by the masters of the Russian National School of Painting, and seeking deeper and more fully to know it.