Sarkisova Anna Biography
View FullSize Portrait of Anna Nikitichna Aivazovskaya. In this marriage, they had four daughters. Family life at first developed well. Julia shared her husband's interests. She actively participated in archaeological excavations undertaken by Ivan Konstantinovich in the year near Feodosia. But family happiness gave a crack. In the year, Aivazovsky turned to Echmiadzin Synod with a request to give consent to divorce.
She transferred to her in the city, calm in my house disappeared. For almost twenty years, she slandered me, stained my honor and honor of my relatives in front of our children and strangers. And she does this in order to kill me not physically, but morally, so that, illegally taking away my estate, property, leave the urgent bread without bread. My wife Julia, treating me hostilely, lives in the capital at my expense, often travels to Austria, France, Germany, involving me in colossal expenses.
Life in Odessa motivates the disease, although in fact Odessa doctors recommend that she leave the city. Julia Grevs, guided by the councils of dubious persons, has recently addressed the governor and other high officials of the state with a request to pick up my property and estate, although I constantly provide her life, sending it to Odessa monthly rubles.
She restores her daughters against me, taking them signatures that after a divorce they will live with her. ” View FullSize fruit collection in Crimea. Although, no. There are no accidental meetings. Ivan Konstantinovich met Anna in a seemingly unexpected situation. His crew drove along one of the Theodosia streets. On the way there was a funeral procession, escorting on the last journey of the merchant known in Feodosia by the name of Sarkizov.
Aivazovsky's attention was attracted by a young woman who was in the procession. It turned out that it was the widow of the merchant Sarkizov. Burnazyan is Anna's maiden name. If there is love at first sight, then it was it. The artist fell in love. After the firming time after the death of her husband, Anna Sarkizova accepts Aivazovsky’s proposal to become his wife.
The difference of 40 years has not become an obstacle to them: Aivazovsky’s house was filled with comfort and warmth. Daughters and grandchildren of Ivan Konstantinovich came to the artist’s house with pleasure and stayed there for a long time. They were visited by artists, writers, and musicians. The wife of Anna becomes for Aivazovsky and the muse. In the year of their wedding - - He writes her portrait in a national Armenian dress with a transparent silk scarf on his head.
Aivazovsky captured his beloved wife in another picture - “Fruit collecting in Crimea”. On her, a young girl collects grapes. The picture is full of sunlight and bright colors. View Fullsize Anna Nikitichna Burnazyan-Sarkizova. I love you, and from your deep eyes a whole mysterious world has flickers for me, which has almost witchcraft. And when in the silence of the workshop I can’t remember your gaze, my picture comes out dull.
” Ivan Konstantinovich was gone in the year. With the advent of the 20th century, Anna Nikitichna, like many others, had to survive a lot: the First World War, the Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Patriotic War, Hunger, Destructures. When the Germans left Feodosia, Anna Nikitichna was found by the artist Nikolai Samokish and, learning about her deprivations, took him into his house in Simferopol.
Anna Nikitichna died in the year at the age of 88.
She was buried next to Ivan Konstantinovich, in the square of the Armenian Church of St. Sargis, in which they were once married.