Destinies picture in different ways. Some people just get into the museum exhibit, or are private collections of jewels, while others are kept in storerooms for decades, patiently waiting in the wings. Now the Tretyakov Gallery restorers working on the restoration of two unique paintings: «Sanhedrin Court» Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge , «Hunting the walrus» Konstantin Korovin . These pictures were waiting for their chance to gain a second life more than a hundred years. Tell «Culture» .

Nikolai Ge created many large-format paintings. Among them - «Sanhedrin Court», or «guilty of death». In the Tretyakov Gallery picture is not hit immediately, but only after the was in Yasnaya Polyana. After the artist's death, his son sent this canvas Lev Tolstoy. We know that the great writer thought the painting artist's genius. «This work is in rolls, wrapped in newspaper, hit the Clear Polyana. And Tolstoy's daughter, Tatyana Suhotina-Tolstaya, this thing was liberated from the newspapers - it even has the remains of a newspaper print at work - and how could, pulled on the frame », - says chief curator Tretyakov Ekaterina Selezneva.

Thus, the picture came to the museum is not in the best condition. But she had to wait for the restoration of a hundred years. The film has been loaded paints: one version was written over another. In addition, Nikolai Ge used these colors, which can be restored if, as they say, «leak». While waiting for the solution of the Greater restorers expert council. «This is a serious chronic illness. Just Bugry vypirayut. This is also quite rare. As all of the most narrow, as this picture of violence, as this be? Even the issue of the newspapers, too, will be given, because it is certainly not the author, but the signs of the times. This is the story of the fate of the work », - has continued to Ekaterina Selezneva.

On the table by the restorers also was one of ten paintings by Konstantin Korovin, dedicated to the life of the North. The artist created paintings for the All-Russian Fair of 1896. Since then, the work has not been seen. Personal Korovina exhibition to be held in 2010, it was decided to restore the panel «Hunting the walrus». «I would like to show at this exhibition is well forgotten old, and now found the money for restoration, fabrication stretcher for these unique panels. Because this is a tremendous job. And you can see that their lives are fairly shabby », - noted Seleznyov.

Almost all the panels, Konstantin Korovin has size 2 × 3 m. Hence, the question arises as to where their store after restoration, because the funds Tretyakov hammered masterpieces. All the hope that soon in the gallery will open new store in Lavrushinsky Lane, then Korovinskoe panels find their permanent home.

Source: tvkultura.ru