In samoyeds. In the country of cold and death

"If we take into account that the North is a path without a return for many enthusiasts, then you can imagine how much internal strength and optimism had to be in pessimism and black melancholy. Only such a powerful talent that A. A. Borisov was endowed, in his root of his life -affirming, was the power to create monumental images of the North ...
The more you get acquainted with the work of A. A. Borisov, the more clearly you understand that it It was a means of struggle for him along with his articles and public performances. And cold, and deserted, and scary, but still, looking at his paintings, somewhere inside the restless desire to live and act in the conditions of that nature grows inside.
The artist of Alexander Alekseevich Borisov is called the first Arctic artist. This extraordinary person combined the talent of the painter, the curiosity of a real researcher, the determination of the polar traveler and the attentive look of the writer. According to the results of his expeditions to the Arctic, Alexander Borisov published two books: "among Samoyeds" (1907) and "in the country of cold and death" (1909)
Both books have never been published in modern spelling, however, the original publications have long become a bibliographic rarity.
The work presented to readers includes, in addition to these exciting texts, color reproductions of the artist’s paintings, as well as an essay on his life (Yu. K. Burlakov) and some materials related to the study of his stay on the New Earth and Vaigache (P. in . Boyarsky)
The Museum of Artistic Development of the Arctic named after A.A. Borisova (Arkhangelsk) and Museum-Cultural Center "House-Estate of the Northern Artist A. A. Borisov" (Krasnoborsk, Arkhangelsk Region) ".
Alexander Alekseevich Borisov - a Russian artist, the first painter of the Arctic, a writer, a public figure, a researcher of polar lands, who made a significant contribution to the development of issues of transport and economic development of the North