У себя в Муроме / At home in Murom: 1888-1912

Россия на дореволюционных фотографиях У себя в Муроме Фотографии Петр Иванович Целебровский 1888-1912 Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs At home in Murom Photographs by Peter Ivanovich Celebrovsky 1888-1912 Music: Ah! Not an Autumn Leaf . A. B. Shalov Played on the balalaika with orchestra Pyotr Ivanovich Celebrovsky was born in 1859 in the village of Arefino, Murom district, now in the district of Nizhny Novgorod region... He was biorn into a family of a priest whose parish was at Zyablitsky churchyard of the village of Arefino. From childhood, he was interested in books, considering engravings and drawings. Early he began to draw with charcoal and pencil. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and from 1881 to 1888, at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, studying the historical genre. He posted his artistic images in illustrated magazines. REturning to his homeland he was looking for artistic impressions of simple peasant life. In 1883, 1884 and 1885 he received four silver medals. In 1888, he was awarded the title of class artist of the 1st degree. For the painting “Socrates in prison talks before death“ was awarded two gold medals (the canvas is in the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum). From 1891 to 1892 he collaborated in the Niva magazine. In a company with two artists, fellow academics and natives of the city of Murom, he was engaged in photography and tried to open a photographic institution in the city. From 1892 to 1918 he worked as a drawing teacher at the Murom girls’ gymnasium, while painting Orthodox churches. As a teacher of drawing, he received several orders and a state rank. From 1918 to 1919, together with the Murom artist Ivan Kulikov, he was the organizer of training courses for drawing and sketching teachers for educational institutions of Murom. In 1920, fleeing hunger, he moved to the village of Zhiguli in the Samara province, where he worked as a drawing teacher at a second-level school. He died on May 10, 1921 from Spanish flu