Photo, Print, Drawing Pereselenet︠s︡ pered vozvrashcheniem na rodinu. Переселенец перед возвращением на родину.

Title

• Pereselenet︠s︡ pered vozvrashcheniem na rodinu.

Other Title

• Переселенец перед возвращением на родину.

Translated Title

• Fate and Migration: A Migrant, Returning to His Homeland, Bids Farewell to the Graves of those Dear to Him Who He Had Lost in the Adopted Land.

Summary

• Boris Vasilievich Smirnov (1881-1954) was a Russian artist who in 1904 traveled by prisoner transport from western Russia across Siberia. Along the way he created a series of drawings and watercolors of the people and places he encountered. Best known as a portraitist, Smirnov focused on the faces of the men and women he met, who included exiles, prisoners, settlers from Ukraine and western Russia, local military and civilian officials, peasants and merchants. His works from this period also include a handful of drawings of houses and landscapes. The sketches were made in the Ural Mountains, Irkutsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, and in villages along the route. The details of Smirnov's journey are sketchy. Some accounts say that he traveled along the Great Siberian Road as a volunteer on the way to the front in the Russo-Japanese War. Other accounts say that he was an exile, possibly sent to Siberia for refusing to be conscripted into the army. The Great Siberian Road, depicted in several of Smirnov's drawings, was the route from Moscow to China via Siberia. Smirnov's collection of 99 graphic items is preserved in the Novosibirsk State Museum of Regional History and Folklife. The collection was acquired by the museum from the artist in 1950. It was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers project in the early 2000s. The complete collection is presented in the World Digital Library. World Digital Library.

Names

• Smirnov, Boris Vasil'evich, , 1881-1954 , artist.

Created / Published

• [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1904

Headings

• -  Smirnov
• -  grafika
• -  portret
• -  ėtnografii︠a︡
• -  pereselent︠s︡y
• -  Sibir'
• -  Clothing and dress
• -  Fur garments
• -  Migrants
• -  Portrait drawings
• -  Settlers
• -  Russian Federation
• -  Buryatia, Republic of
• -  Irkutsk Oblast
• -  Смирнов
• -  графика
• -  портрет
• -  этнография
• -  переселенцы
• -  Сибирь

Notes

• -  Avtorskai︠a︡ podpis' - nizhniĭ levyĭ ugol (karandash). Tyl'nai︠a︡ storona po verkhnemu krai︠u︡ - avtorskai︠a︡ nadpis': "Sud'ba i pereselenie" (skoropis'; karandash). V verkhneĭ polovine - "Pereselenet︠s︡ pered vozvrashcheniem na rodinu prishel prostit'si︠a︡ s mogilami dorogikh emu li︠u︡deĭ, kotorykh on poteri︠a︡l v chuzhom krai︠u︡". (skoropis', karandash; s levoĭ storony teksta - figurnai︠a︡ skobka, fioletovye chernila); nizhe - "1904 god khud. Smirnov" (skoropis'; karandash; zacherknuto fioletovymi chernilami). Nizhe stroka nerazborchivo (skoropis'; karandash).
• -  Original image at: Novosibirsk State Museum of Regional History and Folklife
• -  Авторская подпись - нижний левый угол (карандаш). Тыльная сторона по верхнему краю - авторская надпись: "Судьба и переселение" (скоропись; карандаш). В верхней половине - "Переселенец перед возвращением на родину пришел проститься с могилами дорогих ему людей, которых он потерял в чужом краю". (скоропись, карандаш; с левой стороны текста - фигурная скобка, фиолетовые чернила); ниже - "1904 год худ. Смирнов" (скоропись; карандаш; зачеркнуто фиолетовыми чернилами). Ниже строка неразборчиво (скоропись; карандаш).

Medium

• 1 drawing : pencil ; 27.3 x 17.2 cm.

Source Collection

• Boris Smirnov Print Collection

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/mtfxph.wsm0045
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.18610

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2018688252

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2018688252

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