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The artist came from a fairly ancient and wealthy merchant family of the Shishkins. Born in Yelabuga in 1832 on January 13 (25). His father was a fairly well-known wealthy merchant in the city. He tried to give his son a good education.

Education

From the age of 12, Shishkin studied at the First Kazan Gymnasium, and at the age of 20 he entered the Moscow School of Painting. After graduation (in 1857) he continued his studies at the Imperial Academy of Arts as a student of Professor S. M. Vorobyov. Already at this time, Shishkin liked to paint landscapes. He traveled a lot around the outskirts of the Northern capital, visited Valaam. The beauty of the harsh northern nature will inspire him throughout his life.

In 1861, at the expense of the Academy, he went on a trip abroad and studied for some time in Munich, Zurich, Geneva, Dusseldorf. There he got acquainted with the works of Benno, F. Adamov, F. Dide, A. Kalam. The trip lasted until 1866. By this time, in his homeland, Shishkin had already received the title of academician for his work.

Homecoming and career peak

Returning to his homeland, Shishkin continued to improve his landscape technique. He traveled a lot across Russia, exhibited at the Academy, took part in the work of the Association of Traveling Exhibitions, drawing a lot with a pen (the artist mastered this technique while abroad). He also continued to work with the engraving "royal vodka", joining the circle of St. Petersburg aquafortists in 1870. His reputation was impeccable. He was considered the best landscape painter and engraver of his time. In 1873 he became a professor at the Academy of Arts (he received the title for the painting "Wilderness").

A family

In the biography of Shishkin it is said that the artist was married twice, with the first marriage to the artist's sister F.A.Vasiliev, and the second marriage to his student, O. A. Lagoda. From two marriages he had 4 children, of which only two daughters survived to adulthood: Lydia and Ksenia.

The artist died in 1898 (suddenly). At first he was buried at the Smolenskoe cemetery, but then the ashes and the tombstone were transferred to the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

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• The artist's year of birth is not known exactly. The biographers' data vary (from 1831 to 1835). But in official biographies it is customary to indicate the year 1832.
• The artist drew superbly with pencil and pen. His pen work was very popular with the European public. Many of them are kept in the Art Gallery in Düsseldorf.
• Shishkin was an excellent naturalist. That is why his works are so realistic, spruce is like spruce, and pine is like pine. He knew perfectly Russian nature in general and Russian forest in particular.
• The most famous work of the artist "Morning in a pine forest" was created in collaboration with K. Savitsky. A little earlier this picture was written by another, "Fog in a Pine Forest", which the authors liked so much that they decided to rewrite it, including a certain genre scene. The craftsmen were inspired by a trip through the virgin Vologda forests.
• The largest collection of Shishkin's works is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, slightly less in the Russian Museum. A large number of drawings and prints made by the artist are in private collections. Interestingly, a collection of photographs of Shishkin's prints was released

Recognition after death is not uncommon in the world of creators. However, this cup passed Ivan Ivanovich. He had been drawn to the brush since childhood, so his parents called him a “dauber”. Shishkin at a young age dropped out of school and devoted himself to drawing. He explained his choice as follows: "In order not to become an official."

By the time he graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Shishkin was already well known and appreciated abroad.

Later, from 1862 to 1865, the artist lived abroad. Mostly in Germany. In Düsseldorf, he wrote extensively in the Teutoburg Forest. And already at that time his works were wildly popular with local residents.

Ivan himself wrote in his memoirs: "Wherever you go, they show everywhere - this Russian has gone, even in stores they ask if you are the Russian Shishkin who draws so magnificently?"

Carousel and badass

Ivan Ivanovich's youth was rather stormy. Night gatherings with friends over a bottle or two did not always end peacefully.

Contemporaries recall a duel that took place in one of the pubs in Munich. The artist, who was resting with friends, heard two young Germans at the next table making derogatory jokes about Russia. It should be noted that while studying abroad, Shishkin was very homesick. “Why am I not in Russia, which I love so much?” He wrote.

Therefore, hairpins addressed to our country did not go unpunished. Ivan demanded an apology, and, without waiting, rushed into the attack.

The witnesses later got confused in the testimony: someone claimed that the Russian artist had knocked out seven, others swore that there were at least a dozen defeated. Still, after all, Shishkin wielded a heavy wagon kingpin that fell under his arm. This kingpin, pretty bent, was presented in court as evidence of the guilt of the Russian.

However, the matter did not come to punishment, the victims admitted they were wrong, and the patriotic painter was acquitted. They say that friends carried Ivan Ivanovich out of the courthouse in their arms to go to the nearest pub to celebrate the victory.

Were there bears?

Few people know that the most popular, thanks to the image on the wrapper of Soviet chocolates, the picture "Morning in a Pine Forest" Shishkin did not write himself, but in collaboration with his friend, the famous animal painter Konstantin Savitsky. It is his brush that belongs to the figures of the cubs. The signature on the canvas was also double.

It was not Shishkin who painted the bears. Photo: reproduction

The picture was bought by the famous art collector Pavel Tretyakov. However, Tretyakov and Savitsky had a difficult relationship, and the collector said: "I bought only Shishkin's painting - I didn't buy Savitsky!" He ordered to wash off the second signature. Since then, the picture has been exhibited - in the sole authorship of Ivan Ivanovich.

By the way, many people incorrectly call the painting "Three Bears" because it depicts four teddy bears. It's just that in the USSR, they sold Mishka Clubfoot sweets with a reproduction of this work, and the people called the sweets “Three Bears”.

Tragic love

The painter's personal life was truly tragic, despite the fact that he was married twice, and both were for love.

His first wife was Evgenia Vasilieva, the sister of the talented landscape painter Fyodor Vasiliev, whom Shishkin took care of and taught the basics of skill. Unfortunately, Evgenia Alexandrovna died in April 1874. And a little later their little son also died.

Broken with grief, the artist gave up creativity for a while and went to the village, where he became addicted to alcohol.

However, he was able to return to life, and already in 1875 at the 4th Traveling Exhibition he presented a number of paintings, including "A Spring in a Pine Forest".

After some time, Shishkin married a second time. On Olga Antonovna Lagoda, her student, landscape painter. But this time the happiness was short-lived - his wife died at the age of thirty-one, leaving two daughters to the widower.

Death at the easel

Ivan Ivanovich died, as befits a creator, at work. It happened on March 8, 1898. The artist was 66 years old and full of creative plans. Shishkin sat at his easel and worked on his new painting "Forest Kingdom".

According to the testimony of a student helping him, making a stroke, the artist suddenly seemed to yawn, and then his head sank helplessly onto his chest ...

The last work of the artist is kept in the Russian Museum. Photo: reproduction

The disciple rushed to the aid of his teacher, but he was already dead. The arriving doctor pronounced death from heart failure.

The last completed work of the artist was the majestic composition "Ship Grove", which is kept in the "Russian Museum".

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185 years ago, on January 25 (13th according to the old style), the great Russian painter Ivan Shishkin was born. For his adherence to Russian nature, he was called the "forest tsar". What is the secret of its popularity.
On January 25, in Yelabuga (Tatarstan), the homeland of the landscape painter Ivan Shishkin, the 185th anniversary of his birth was celebrated on a large scale.
The descendants of the painter came to Elabuga. According to the Shishkin genealogy specialist, senior researcher at the Ivan Shishkin Museum, Nadezhda Kuryleva, the artist's family has 15 generations (506 names), his history has been going on for 300 years. 80 people are our contemporaries. They live in Russia, USA, Ukraine, Serbia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Sweden.

It is curious that many representatives of the genus are marked with a "creative genome" and have shown good abilities for science and drawing. So, the great-great-granddaughter Varvara Mezhinskaya-Antich (through the artist's sister Anna) is engaged in mosaic technique, having graduated from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade. Her sister Elena Mezhinskaya-Milovanovic, philologist and art critic, deputy director of an art gallery at the same Academy, has published several research papers on the contribution of Russian artists to Serbian art. Shishkin's great-nephew Viktor Repin, who lives in Germany, is a designer and artist. There are enough talents in this family.

The artist's great-great-grandson through his daughter Lydia and her husband Boris Ridinger, Sergei Lebedev, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the State Maritime Academy of St. Petersburg, attended one of the meetings of the descendants. He donated to the Shishkin Museum a copy of the portrait of the artist's granddaughter Alexandra, painted in 1918 by Ilya Repin himself. A descendant of Shishkin told the author of these lines: “The only relic of our family is the very drawing, a copy of which I brought to Yelabuga. Of course, there were Shishkin's originals in the house, but during the siege of Leningrad, my grandmother exchanged them for food. And when the city was liberated, a decree was issued, according to which it was possible to return the forcedly sold values. Grandmother firmly said then: “This is out of the question! If it were not for Shishkin's paintings, it is not known whether we would have survived. In general, the members of our family, like everyone else, admire the canvases of the famous ancestor exclusively in the museum halls ... "

There are representatives of the genus in Kazan. The famous researcher of history and urban planning, architect Sergei Sanachin is the great-great-grandson of the artist's sister Olga Ivanovna Shishkina (married Izhboldin). Sergei Pavlovich said that in the 1960s his grandparents donated some family relics to the Museum of Fine Arts - photographs, a bamboo shelf, and a cane. According to Sanachin, there is no need to talk about "Shishkin places" in Kazan. Only the building of the First Gymnasium is directly related to the painter (now the building of the Tupolev KSTU-KAI on K. Marx Street), in which the artist studied from 1844 to 1848. But on the other hand, three houses have survived, which were owned by the painter's sister Olga Ivanovna. These are beautiful wooden buildings in Shkolny Lane, including the one where the house-museum of the chemist Arbuzov is now.

It is curious that among the numerous descendants, only one bears the surname Shishkin. This is the great-great-grandson of the artist's uncle Vasily Vasilyevich, a retired military man Alexander Vasilyevich from Lipetsk. They say that he is strikingly similar to Ivan Ivanovich.

Shishkin was a man of heroic build - tall, slender, with a wide beard and exuberant hair, with a keen gaze, wide shoulders and large palms that barely fit in his pockets. Contemporaries said about Shishkin: “Any clothes are cramped for him, the house is cramped for him, and the city is also cramped. Only in the forest is he free, there he is the master. "

He perfectly knew the life of plants, surprised his colleagues with his knowledge, to some extent he was even a botanist. Once Shishkin wrote in his diary: “For more than forty years I have been writing forest, forest ... Why am I writing? To please someone's eye? No, not only for this. There is nothing more beautiful than forests. And the forest is life. People should remember this. " He dearly loved Russian nature, and abroad he languished in soul. When in 1893 the "Petersburg newspaper" offered him a questionnaire, then to the question: "What is your motto?" he replied, “My motto? Be Russian. Long live Russia!"

As a child, Vanya Shishkin was called a "dauber", he painted everything, right up to the fence of his home. Unlike his father, who supported his son's aspirations to become an artist, his mother, strict Daria Romanovna, was indignant: "Will my son become a painter?" It seemed to strangers that he was withdrawn and sullen; in school he had the nickname "monk". But in a close circle, he was a cheerful, deep person. And, they say, with a good sense of humor. Shishkin treasured his friendship with Ivan Kramskoy very much. He was also friends with Dmitry Mendeleev.

Shishkin was a workaholic: he wrote every day, strictly observing the schedule. We read in his notes: “At 10.00. making sketches on the river, at 14.00. - in the field, at 5 pm I work on an oak tree. " Neither thunderstorm, nor wind, nor snowfall, nor heat could interfere. The forest, nature were his element, his real studio. And even when his health began to fail, his legs refused, Shishkin continued to go on sketches in winter. According to the recollections of the old-timers of Yelabuga, a special person went to the forest together with the artist: he blew the coals and, in a special heating pad, substituted the master at the feet of the master so that he would not get cold and overcooled.

Everyone knows the painting "Morning in a Pine Forest". But not everyone knows that the bear cubs were drawn not by Ivan Shishkin, but by his friend, artist Konstantin Savitsky. The latter looked into the studio, looked at the new work and said - "Something is clearly missing here." This is how the clubfoot trinity arose.
The assertion that Shishkin was bad at animals is fundamentally wrong. According to the representative of the State Tretyakov Gallery Galina Churak, there was a period when Shishkin was extremely carried away by the "animal theme": cows and sheep literally passed from one picture to another.

Marat Akhtyamov

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1932 - 1898) is the brightest star in the galaxy of Russian landscape masters. No one showed greater skill in depicting Russian nature. All his work was subordinated to the idea of ​​reflecting the beauty of nature as accurately as possible.

Hundreds of works came out from under Shishkin's brush, pencil and engraving cutter. There are several hundred paintings alone. At the same time, it is very difficult to sort them by time of writing or by skill. Of course, at 60 he wrote differently than at 20. But there are no sharp differences in themes, technique or color schemes between Shishkin's paintings.

Such uniformity, coupled with outward simplicity, played a cruel joke with Shishkin's creative legacy. Many people involved in painting, knowledge about painting, or bits of knowledge about painting, consider the painting of I.I. Shishkin to be simple, even primitive. This seeming simplicity was used by marketers, no matter how they were called in Russia during the change of the political regime. As a result, at one time Shishkin could be seen everywhere: on reproductions, rugs, sweets, etc. There was an attitude towards Shishkin as a manufacturer of something infinitely boring and formulaic.

In fact, of course, Ivan Shishkin's work is diverse and multifaceted. You just need to be able to see this variety. But for this you need to know the language of painting, key events from the artist's biography and be able to make intellectual efforts to comprehend them.

1. Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was born in Elabuga (now Tatarstan). His father Ivan Vasilyevich Shishkin was a gifted man, but completely unlucky in business. Having inherited the title of a merchant of the second guild, he traded so unsuccessfully that at first he signed up for the third guild, and then completely discharged himself from the merchants in the middle class. But in Yelabuga he had great authority as a scientist. He built a water supply system in the city, which was then a rarity in larger cities. Ivan Vasilievich knew about mills and even wrote a manual for their construction. In addition, Shishkin Sr. was fond of history and archeology. He opened an ancient Ananyinsky burial ground near Yelabuga, for which he was elected a corresponding member of the Moscow Archaeological Society. For several years Ivan Vasilievich was the mayor.

Ivan Vasilievich Shishkin

2. Drawing was easy for Ivan and took up almost all of his free time. After studying for four years at the First Kazan Gymnasium, one of the best in the country, he refused to continue his studies. Nor did he want to become a merchant or an official. For four long years, the family was fighting for the future of the youngest son, who wanted to study painting (“to become a painter” according to his mother). Only at the age of 20 did his parents agree to let him go to the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture.

Self-portrait in his youth

3. Despite the general unfavorable reviews about the political and cultural situation in Russia in the middle of the 19th century, the morals of the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture reigned quite free This school was an approximate analogue of Soviet pedagogical schools - the best graduates went to study further at the Academy of Arts, the rest could work as teachers drawing. In essence, they demanded one thing from the students - to work harder. Young Shishkin just needed it. One of his friends in a letter blamed him mildly, saying that Sokolniki had already redrawn everything. Yes, in those years Sokolniki and Sviblovo were dreams, where landscape painters went to sketches.

The building of the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture

4. At the school, Shishkin created his first etchings. He did not abandon graphics and prints further. On the basis of a small workshop of the Artists' Artel in 1871, the Society of Russian Aquafortists was created. Shishkin was one of the first in Russia who began to treat pictorial engraving as a separate genre of painting. The early experiments of engravers explored the possibility of replicating ready-made works of painting more. Shishkin, on the other hand, strove to create original engravings. He published five albums of etchings and gained the fame of the best engraver in Russia.

Engraving "Clouds over the Grove"

5. From his youth, Ivan Ivanovich turned very painfully to external evaluations of his works. However, no wonder - the family, due to their own constraint, helped him little, so the artist's well-being, from the moment he left for Moscow, almost entirely depended on his success. Much later, in adulthood, he would be sincerely upset when the Academy, having highly appreciated one of his works, awarded him the order, and did not confer the title of professor. The order was honored, but did not give anything materially. In tsarist Russia, even military officers bought awards on their own. And the title of professor gave a stable permanent income.

6. Having entered the Academy of Arts, Shishkin spent several summer academic seasons - as the Academy called what would later be called industrial practice - spent on Valaam. The nature of the island, located in the north of Lake Ladoga, fascinated the artist. Every time he left Balaam, he began to think about returning. On Valaam, he learned to make large pen drawings, which even professionals sometimes mistook for engravings. For Valaam works, Shishkin was awarded several Academy awards, including the Great Gold Medal with the inscription "Worthy".

One of the sketches from Valaam

7. Ivan Ivanovich loved his homeland not only as a nature for landscapes. With the Big Gold Medal, he simultaneously received the right to a long-term paid creative business trip abroad. Taking into account the artist's income, this could be the first and last chance in life. But Shishkin asked the leadership of the Academy to replace his overseas voyage with a trip along the Kama and Volga to the Caspian Sea. It was not only the authorities who were shocked. Even close friends in chorus urged the artist to join the fruits of European enlightenment. In the end, Shishkin gave up. By and large, nothing sensible came of the trip. The European masters did not surprise him. The artist tried to paint animals and city landscapes, but willingly or unwillingly, he chose a nature, at least somewhat similar to his beloved Balaam. The only delight was the delight of European colleagues and the painting, painted under the advance payment taken in St. Petersburg, depicting a herd of cows in the forest. Shishkin dubbed Paris "perfect Babylon", but did not go to Italy: "it hurts too sweet." From abroad, Shishkin fled early, using the last paid months to stay and work in Yelabuga.

The notorious herd of cows

8. The return to St. Petersburg was a triumph for the artist. While he was sitting in Yelabuga, his European works made a splash. On September 12, 1865, he became an academician. His painting "View in the vicinity of Dusseldorf" was asked for a while from the owner Nikolai Bykov to be exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris. There Shishkin's canvas coexisted with paintings by Aivazovsky and Bogolyubov.

View in the vicinity of Dusseldorf

9. The aforementioned Nikolai Bykov not only partially paid for Shishkin's trip to Europe. In fact, his influence on the members of the Academy became decisive in the question of attributing the artist to the title of academician. As soon as he received "View in the Environs of Dusseldorf" by mail, he rushed to show the picture to the eminent artists. And Bykov's word had considerable weight in artistic circles. He graduated from the Academy himself, but wrote practically nothing. Known for his self-portrait and a copy of the portrait of Zhukovsky by Karl Bryullov (it was this copy that was played in the lottery to redeem Taras Shevchenko from the serfs). But Bykov had the gift of foresight in relation to young artists. He bought paintings from young Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Kiprensky and, of course, Shishkin, eventually collecting an extensive collection.

Nikolay Bykov

10. In the summer of 1868, Shishkin, who was then taking care of the young artist Fyodor Vasiliev, met his sister Evgenia Alexandrovna. Already in the fall, they played a wedding. The couple loved each other, but the marriage did not bring them happiness. The black streak began in 1872 - the father of Ivan Ivanovich died. A year later, a two-year-old son died of typhus (the artist himself was also seriously ill). Fyodor Vasiliev died after him. In March 1874, Shishkin lost his wife, and a year later another little son died.

Evgenia Alexandrovna, the artist's first wife

11. If II Shishkin had not been an outstanding artist, he could well have become a scientist-botanist. The desire to realistically convey wildlife forced him to meticulously study plants. He did this both during his first trip to Europe, and during his retirement (i.e. undertaken at the expense of the Academy) voyage to the Czech Republic. He always had plant guides and a microscope at hand, which was a rarity for landscape painters. But the naturalism of some of the artist's works looks very documentary.

12. The first work of Shishkin, bought by the famous philanthropist Pavel Tretyakov, was the painting “Noon. In the vicinity of Moscow ". The artist was flattered by the attention of the famous collector, and even bailed out 300 rubles for the canvas. Later, Tretyakov bought many of Shishkin's paintings, and prices for them invariably rose. For example, for the painting “Pine Forest. Mast timber in the Vyatka province ”Tretyakov has already paid 1,500 rubles.

Noon. In the vicinity of Moscow

13. Shishkin took an active part in the creation and work of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. In fact, his entire creative life since 1871 was associated with the Wanderers. The same "Pine Forest ..." was first seen by the public at the first traveling exhibition. In the company of the Itinerants, Shishkin met Ivan Kramskoy, who highly appreciated the painting of Ivan Ivanovich. The artists made friends and spent a lot of time with their families on field sketches. Kramskoy considered Shishkin an artist of the European level. In one of the letters from Paris, he wrote to Ivan Ivanovich that if any of his paintings were brought to the Salon, the audience would sit on their hind legs.

The Wanderers. When Shishkin spoke, his bass interrupted everyone

14. In early 1873 Shishkin became a professor of landscape painting. This title was awarded by the Academy based on the results of a competition to which all comers submitted their works. Shishkin became a professor for the painting "Wilderness". He earned the title of professor, which allowed him to officially recruit students, for a long time. Kramskoy wrote that Shishkin can recruit 5 - 6 people for sketches, and he will teach all sensible ones, while at the age of 10 he leaves the Academy alone, and even that one is crippled. Shishkin married one of his students, Olga Pagoda, in 1880. This marriage, unfortunately, was even shorter than the first - Olga Alexandrovna died, barely having time to give birth to a daughter, in 1881. In 1887, the artist published an album of his deceased wife's drawings. Shishkin's official pedagogical activity was just as short. Unable to choose students, he resigned one year after his appointment.

15. The artist kept up with the times. When the process of photographing and taking pictures became more or less accessible to the general public, he purchased a camera and the necessary accessories and began to actively use photography in his work. Recognizing the imperfection of photography at the time, Shishkin appreciated the fact that it made it possible to work in winter, when there was no way to paint landscapes from nature.

16. Unlike most representatives of creative professions, II Shishkin treated work as a service. He sincerely did not understand people waiting for inspiration to come. Work and inspiration will come. And colleagues, in turn, were surprised at Shishkin's performance. Everyone mentions this in letters and memoirs. Kramskoy, for example, was amazed at the heap of drawings brought by Shishkin from a short trip to Crimea. Even Ivan Ivanovich's friend assumed that landscapes, unlike what his friend wrote, would take some time to get used to. And Shishkin went out into nature and painted the Crimean mountains. This capacity for work helped him get rid of alcohol addiction during difficult periods of his life (there was such a sin).

17. The famous painting "Morning in a pine forest" was painted by II Shishkin in collaboration with Konstantin Savitsky. Savitsky showed his colleague a genre sketch with two cubs. Shishkin mentally surrounded the bear figurines with a landscape and invited Savitsky to paint a picture together. We agreed that Savitsky would receive a quarter of the sale price, and Shishkin would receive the rest. In the course of the work, the number of cubs increased to four. Savitsky painted their figures. The painting was painted in 1889 and was a great success. Pavel Tretyakov bought it for 4,000 rubles, 1,000 of which were received by Shishkin's co-author. Later, Tretyakov, for some unknown reason, erased Savitsky's signature from the canvas.

Everyone has seen this picture

18. In the 1890s, Shishkin maintained close friendship with his colleague Arkhip Kuindzhi. According to Shishkin's niece, who lived in his house, Kuindzhi came to Shishkin's almost daily. Both artists quarreled with some of the Itinerants on the issue of participating in the reform of the Academy of Arts: Shishki and Kuindzhi were for participation, and even worked on a draft of a new charter, and some of the Itinerants were categorically opposed. And Kuindzhi can be considered the co-author of Shishkin's painting "In the Wild North" - Komarova recalls that Arkhip Ivanovich put a small dot on the finished canvas, depicting a distant light.

"In the wild north ..." Kuindzhi's fire is not visible, but it is

19. On November 26, 1891, a large exhibition of works by Ivan Shishkin was opened in the hall of the Academy. For the first time in the history of Russian painting, not only finished works were demonstrated at a personal exhibition, but also preparatory fragments: sketches, sketches, drawings, etc. The artist decided to show how a painting is born, to illustrate the process of its birth. Despite critical reviews from colleagues, he made such exhibitions traditional.

20. Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin died in his workshop on March 8, 1898. He worked together with his student Grigory Gurkin. Gurkin was sitting in the far corner of the workshop and heard a wheeze. He managed to run up, grab the teacher who was falling on his side and drag him onto the couch. Ivan Ivanovich was on it and died a few minutes later. They buried him at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg. In 1950, the burial place of I.I.Shishkin was transferred to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.