G. V. Soroka is an outstanding artist, a man with a tragic fate. He was a serf of the landowner n. P. Milyukov, and served as a painter and gardener on his estate, ostrovki. In the early 1840s, he became a student of a. G. Venetsianov, who had friendly relations with milyukov. However, all of venetsianov’s attempts to secure soroka’s release were unsuccessful. The artist remained an unknown village painter. In the early 1860s, he was sentenced to corporal punishment for participating in peasant unrest and committed suicide on the eve of his execution. In russian art, soroka’s “self-portrait” is one of the most sincere; the artist probably painted it “for himself. ” the portrait remained in his family, where it was kept for over a hundred years. In 1976, at the opening of an exhibition dedicated to soroka’s work, the artist’s great-grandchildren donated it to the russian museum. Date: 1840-е — начало 1850-х. Self-portrait by G.Soroka (1840-50s, Russian museum)
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