Pavel Korin is famous for his preparational work for the unimplemented painting Farewell to Rus.
21 Facts About Pavel Korin
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Pavel Korin was born in the village of Palekh, Vyaznikovsky Uyezd, Russian Empire to a family of a professional icon-painter Dmitry Nikolayevich Korin.
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In 1897, when Pavel was only five years old, his father died.
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Pavel Korin graduated from that school in 1916, having been a student of Konstantin Korovin and Leonid Pasternak.
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In 1931, Pavel Korin's studio was visited by Maxim Gorky, who supported Pavel Korin since.
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In 1932, Pavel Korin followed Gorky to Sorrento, painted Gorky's portrait, and visited Italy and Germany.
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In 1931, Pavel Korin started to work as the Head of the Restoration Shop of Museum of the Foreign Art.
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In 1933, Pavel Korin moved to the studio on Malaya Pirogovka Street in Moscow where he worked until his death.
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Pavel Korin painted the fresco Match to the Future for the Palace of Soviets in the Moscow Kremlin and a Triptych devoted to Alexander Nevsky.
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Pavel Korin's mosaics decorate the stations Komsomolskaya-Koltsevaya, Arbatskaya and Novoslobodskaya, and the Main Hall of Moscow State University.
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Pavel Korin won an impressive list of Soviet awards in the 1950s and 1960s:.
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Pavel Korin died in Moscow on 22 November 1967 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Pavel Korin decided that he should live by Ivanov's example and devote his whole life to a single large painting.
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Pavel Korin began by preparing a very accurate, life sized copy of Ivanov's masterpiece.
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In 1925 Pavel Korin witnessed the funeral service of Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow in the Cathedral of the Dormition of Moscow Kremlin.
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Pavel Korin feverishly painted people present at the burial service for Tikhon, often the last survivors of families of Russian nobility, or dissident priests, soon to be destroyed.
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Pavel Korin produced dozens of large, detailed paintings that he preferred to call etudes for the Farewell to Rus masterpiece; he worked on composition.
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Pavel Korin ordered a huge canvas, designed a special stretcher for it, and spent years coating the canvas with multiple layers of the special underlays.
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Pavel Korin was combining the ancient methods of the icon paintings with the science of art restorations and claimed the painting prepared by his methods should survive hundreds, possibly thousands of years without the need for restoration.
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Pavel Korin invited Korin to work at the station design.
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Pavel Korin Dmitrievich was attentive to all the details of the work of the mosaicists and especially carefully monitored a set of portrait images.