VERSHIGOROV Pyotr Savvich (Savvovich)

28 сентября 1925 (village Sukhotinskiye farm in Tula province) — 16 июня 1998 (Kirov)

Painter, graphic artist

participant of the great Patriotic war (1941-1945); awarded medals "For courage", "For capture of Berlin", "For victory over Germany. 1941-1945".

he Studied at the Moscow state art Institute. В. И. Сурикова (1950-1956) at the faculty of easel painting at П. В. Малькова, П. Д. Покаржевского, В. П. Ефанова. In 1956 the diploma work — picture "By Royal command".

he Lived in Kirov. Performed thematic paintings, landscapes, portraits. Author paintings: "didn't take" (1945), "the Lights of the city of Kirov", "the Cherry tree bloomed" (both — is 1957), "field camp" (1958), "the buoys" (1959), "portrait of a lumberjack Hero of Socialist labor З. Замидуллина" (1959), "the Earth is urgent" (1953), "On the road" (1964), "the output of the torpedo boats" (1966), "the Spring festival. Dymkovo" (1967), "Repair" (1969), "Omutninsk Steelworkers" (1973-1975), "Barents sea", "Land border" (both — 1974), "the blue bird" (1977).

Created a tile (ceramic) in the cafe "Youth" in Yaransk, Kirov oblast, as well as a memorial complex dedicated to В. И. Ленину in slobodskiy (1970).

1950 — participated in exhibitions. The member of artists Union of USSR (since 1957); the Chairman of the Kirov branch of Union of artists (1970-1976). Exhibited: 3-й the all-Union exhibition of diploma works of students of art institutes of the USSR (1956), all-Union art exhibition (1957), the Republican art exhibitions (1957, 1967 — "Soviet Russia"), Moscow; works by artists of the Kirov region (1958, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1967) in Kirov; "Soviet North" in Arkhangelsk (1964) and others. Had a solo exhibition in Kirov (1988).

he Taught at the Kirov art College (1983-1989). Honored artist of the RSFSR.

Work is represented in several Museum collections, among them — of the State Tretyakov gallery in Moscow, Scientific-исследовательский Museum of the Russian Academy of arts in St-Петербурге, Vyatka art Museum. В. М. and А. М. Васнецовых in Kirov.

Sources:
1. Directory of members of Union of artists of the USSR as of 1 апреля 1988 года. M., 1989. S. 270.
2. Artists of the peoples of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1972, vol. 2. S. 248.