Mikhail
Anatolyevich Lyadov

Russia • 1887−1942

Biography and information

The son of the composer A. K. Lyadov (1855 - 1914). He was born in the manor Polinovka Borovichi uyezd, where it is always summer months spent by the family of the composer. Painted since childhood. He graduated from the law faculty of St. Petersburg University. Member of the I-th World war.

In 1923, attended classes at the Academy of arts, and was expelled, but before the end of his life all his free time drawing, working on one of the Leningrad plant an ordinary worker. Died during the evacuation from besieged Leningrad.

M. Liadov kept in the Museum of history of St. Petersburg, the Museum of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, in the Museum at Novgorod musical College named.With.M. Rachmaninoff. In the Borovichi Museum of local lore has a large collection (about 40 works) watercolors of the artist, transferred in 1986 by his widow O. I. Prigorovski (1905 – 1987). Among the many watercolor landscapes with views of Leningrad and its environs a landscape "Road to Polinovka" written by young M. Letovym at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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