Biography Laveretskogo Nicholas Anya
Laveretsky Nicholas Akimovich (1837) – sculptor, born in Moscow in 1837, a boy moved to St Petersburg. and initially studied in the local drawing school for the coming (which is now drawing school Imp. Society for the Encouragement of Arts), and then entered the Academy of Fine Arts students.
Under the guidance of excellent professors Aqd. H. S. Pimenov, talent LA has developed with the swiftness: already in 1859 he received a small gold medal for the relief: "Cincinnati receive ambassadors from Rome, announcing to him on his election to the dictators, and, finally, a gold medal for the relief: Return Regula of Carthage. " By purchasing, along with the last of these awards, the right to travel to foreign lands as a pensioner of the Academy, LA took advantage of this law in 1863, and continuing on through Germany and Austria, to 1870 he lived and worked in Italy.
For that was sent out in 1868, the group: boy and girl, feeding a bird, "he was elevated to the rank of the academician, and when, on his return to St. Petersburg. In 1870, were presented the Academy other works executed by him in Italy : statue of "a Neapolitan boy to a monkey", "First Rose" and "Bather", the "Children looking in a mirror" (located in the Imperial. Hermitage) and "Children begging," busts "Sappho," Etude old "," Spring "," Chucharka "," Capuchin ", etc. – Academy recognized him for their professor. Since that time, continuing to work hard, he never missed an academic exhibition without having to not be on it with their works. Of these, not to mention the less significant, should indicate the statue "Trade" (1876), "Industry" (1876), "Mephisto" (in 1881, brought the artist to a cash prize of the Acad.), "Modesty" (1881), "Rodopi" (1882), "Cupid at the door of Psyche" (1,885), high relief "Angel" (1884), the "Mother's Love" (1876) and "Venus and Cupid" (1886), monuments MI Glinka Smolensk, and Catherine II, in Simferopol, and several portrait busts (vel. book. Vladimir Aleksandrovich, imp. Alexander II, General Evdokimova, singer A. Petrov, a historian Kostomarov, etc.).
Regardless of their own sculptures, LA has brought many benefits to Russian art as a teacher in art school academy, a post he held from 1870 until the enactment, in 1894, a new interim charter academy. A. C-in.