Personality. Time. Events. Portrait from the history of arts

The book of the famous Graphic artist Andrei Kharashak is dedicated to Peter Evgenievich Kornilov - historian and propagandist of art, museum, teacher, bibliophile, collector and a large schedule graphics. His role in history, it is in history, and not only in the history of the arts, it remains to be appreciated. The active activities of Cornilov fell on very difficult years - from the 1920s to the 1960s. He worked in Kazan, Bukhara, Leningrad. The name of Peter Cornilova is forever connected with the cultural and artistic life of a blockade Leningrad, with the fate of the Russian Museum and the personal destinies of artists left in the departed city. Among the close friends of Kornilov were P.A. Shillingovsky, A.P. Ostrumova-Lebedev, k.I. Rudakov, G.S. Veresky, V.M. Konashevich and I.N. Pavlov.
The narration is exhaustively documented by materials from the family archive. The undoubted advantage of the book is an album, reproducing works of friends and contemporaries Cornilov from the Kornilov-Kharshakov family meeting, as well as private collections