Felix
Ignatievich Khodorovich

The life path of the artist - Felix Khodorovich was started almost the same way as Boleslaw Azovskogo. Felix Khodorovich, a student at the Moscow School of painting, sculpture and architecture (studied in 1860-63), was expelled for his involvement in the Polish uprising of 1863. He was exiled to the Caucasus to serve in the army. Thus, in 1864, his life has been forever linked with Georgia. After military service he settled in Tiflis. During his life he traveled around Georgia, carefully studied the character, manners, customs, and utensils of the peoples inhabiting the Caucasus. Having collected extensive material, he began creating portraits and genre sculptures.

In 1886 in the St. Petersburg journal Art news 1886, N4 was reported: ...living in Tiflis sculptor F. Khodorovich decided to create a collection of the Caucasian types, to show at the world exhibition in 1889, this collection was to consist of 30 of 30 busts and genre groups. It is unknown whether he managed to carry out his plan, but we know that small genre scenes, which he exhibited, was highly appreciated by his contemporaries. Is BlackBerry a cart with oxen, Driven wine, the Piper Playing the flute, Collier, Vodovoz, Circassian on the mountain, etc., which the sculptor represented at the exhibitions of the COPY in Tiflis.

Khodorovich was a famous teacher of drawing and sculpture. Since 1870 he taught in the I gymnasium. From 1874 he was in Art school at Tiflis Art Society, which in 1877 was renamed into the Caucasian Society for Encouragement of fine Arts (COPIES). The popularity of Felix Khodorovich pole, a native of Belarus, was great, it was entrusted with many public and private commissions. Not surprisingly, the city Council instructed Hodorovich the creation of the monument to A. S. Pushkin. The monument was opened may 25, 1892, what enthusiastically wrote in the Newspapers Iberia, the Caucasus and Tiflis a piece. The monument to A. S. Pushkin in Tbilisi, the Monument to D. Eristavi in Tbilisi In 1903 was installed in the Alexander garden, the monument to N. V. Gogol, created by Khodorovich the same style as the monument to Pushkin. In such a realistic manner it is fashioned for the first time in Georgia's sculptural portraits of his contemporaries - writers D. Eristavi and A. Shirvanzade, marble portrait of the founder and first Director of the Museum, G. I. Radde and public figure D. Kipiani. Monument of G. I. Radde in Tbilisi Fragment of the monument to G. I. Radde in Tbilisi the monument to the public figure D. Kipiani in Tbilisi Khodorovich lived a long life - more than fifty years in Georgia. Unfortunately, a large number of the sculptures of a few have reached our days. Khodorovich wrote the bright page in the history of the development of Georgian portrait and genre sculpture, contributed to the formation of a local school, had an outstanding Georgian sculptor I. Nikoladze. In the last third of the XIX century in the period of political, social and economic changes there are significant changes in the cultural life of Georgia.

Democratic ideas and the desire to national revival in the first place captures the literature, which was their spokesman. In art the revival of national art traditions went alongside the achievements of other Nations in this sphere that contributed to its development (translational motion) the Accumulation of experience, to correspond with the diversity of this culture resulted in the search for a modern national style. A large positive role of Polish artists in this process is indisputable. In all areas of fine arts, they left a bright trail. When the tiflistsy there was the desire to arts education, a group of artists, which included the poles, headed the organization of the art societies of the Tiflis art society, later renamed into the Caucasian Society for Encouragement of fine Arts.