The biography of Agina

Gogol was born in the Novorzhevsky district of the Pskov province. Father - Alexei Petrovich Elagin, the landowner, retired captain of the Cavalier Guard regiment, participant in the Patriotic War of the year. Mother is serf. You asked why I was Agin, not Elagin! Elagin is the last name of my father, a former officer of the Cavalier Guard regiment, and his mother is his serf, the housekeeper.

I was born in the thousand eight hundred and seventeenth, when the impressions of Napoleon had not yet subsided, when the “French invasion” was still fresh, as they said then. I grew up with my brother, like all the children of the courtyard landowners, among the garden, garden, stable, poultry house and farm yard, completely freedom, and I became Agin because the prefix did not rely on the future in the future.

I then ate very little. My father guessed that, having settled on a foreign side, I would not eat very abundantly, - here he, straightening out of Vasya’s free, threw back the beginning of his last name. Therefore, not Elagin, but just Agin. This was accepted from time immemorial since such as his brother and the academy did not enter the Elagin, but by the Agin. Since then, it often had to have no longer in the years - studied at the St.

Petersburg Academy of Arts in the class of K. Bryullov, having graduated, received the title of teacher of drawing in gymnasiums. Alexander Agin is known as a draftsman, the founder of the Russian genre illustration. He created a series for the works of E. Grebyanka, I. Panaev, I. Turgenev, M. Lermontov, A. Pushkin and others. In the years, he illustrated the “Old Testament”, in the year he performed relief sketches for the monument to I.

Klodt Summer Garden of the year due to complications with censorship Agin, where he taught painting in the cadet corps and He worked as a butafor at the Berger Theater. The greatest fame of Agin was brought by his illustrations to N. Gogol’s poem “Dead Souls” engraved on a tree. In total, 72 sections of a hundred were published. The entire series of drawing was completely published after the death of the artist, in the year.

In the publication of "Dead Souls" and years, the illustrations of Agina were included. A. Agin died in the year in Ukraine in the village of Kachanovka of the Chernigov province. In the year of the anniversary of the birth of Alexander Alekseevich Aggin, the historical and local history library named after Vasilyova introduces interesting facts from his biography, still covered with a secret, with whom he was friends and from whom the talented and modest Pskov-painter artist studied.

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