Above the Moscow river. Artist Sergey Gerasimov. The beginning of the Put

This book is dedicated to the great Russian artist Sergei Vasilievich Gerasimov. A wonderful painter, whose work is recognized by criticism and connoisseurs of domestic art already at exhibitions of the 1920s. The revered and beloved master pedagogue, one of the luminaries of our art school for several decades, he brought up more than one generation of Russian painters of the twentieth century. The wise leader of the professional community of Moscow artists in the 1930s, and then, from 1958 to 1964, in the unforgettable time "thaw", the entire Union of Artists of the USSR ...
The leading art historians of his time wrote about Sergey Vasilievich, especially the S.V. Razumovskaya, K.S. Kravchenko, A.A. Okhdaev. But there is a feeling that they are said not all. It was such a person who is fully difficult to fully reveal, you mentally turn to him again and again, probably because he is very significant in all of its hypostles, they have done a lot. However, this person was not at all characteristic of self -love. He never got into the position of the monument, although he kept with unconditional dignity. The son of a simple artisan from a small Central Russian town, S.V. Gerasimov in the bosom of the culture of our Silver Age was formed in the genuine intellectual of a certain Chekhovsky hardening, which was not easy to stay in the Soviet years. And along with his remarkable creative gift, numerous students and employees of S.V. Gerasimov have always highly appreciated the spiritual, moral qualities of his personality