Memories of the Wanderers

Yakov Danilovich Minchenkov (1871-1938) - painter, landscape officer, in the 1890s, becomes an authorized partnership of mobile art exhibitions. Here is its best quality: love for art, taste, observation, sensitivity, dedication to the beloved case, so necessary for the organization and management of exhibitions, communicating with the public, mediation between artists and paintings by paintings. In the early 1930s, at the request of V.A. Gilyarovsky, he writes memories first about I.E. Repin, and then about other mobile phone, with whom we met at exhibitions, in workshops, in the home circle. Mingchenkova observation was also reflected in the stories about artists (G.G. Myasedov, V.E. Makovsky, A.N. Scholeder, I.E. Repein, A.I. Kindji, V.D. Polenov, I.I. Levitan , V.I. Surikov and others), written talented, brightly and became the most interesting testimony of the Russian luminous life of the end of the XIX - early XX century