Ilya Glazunov. Love and hate

Not a single artist was honored with such popular recognition and not one was subjected to such fierce persecution of professional criticism, such as Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov, the founder of the Russian Academy of Painting, sculpture and architecture, an outstanding personality of the 20th century. His life is reminiscent of a permanent volcano, erupting the avalanche of goodness for people, friends, students and streams of hatred of evil, adepts of the avant -garde, which is opposed to a thousand paintings written by him for the glory of high realism.
The famous journalist and family friend Leo Kolodny talks about the artist’s rich creative and social life, about his bright and tragic fate. As the author writes: “My book is the first attempt to explain the reasons for many paradoxes of the biography of this great man, to destroy the trap from curves, where art historians try to drive him out of the artist’s struggle for the right to be free.”