Vasily
Timofeevich Bazanov

The husband of Natalia – Vasily Timofeevich, then the student has become over time an outstanding artist. After graduating from St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, he returned to Nizhny Novgorod and immediately began to work. Bazanov fine portraits from life, painted domes, walls, columns, temples, and also engaged in the restoration. For example, while still a student, he participated in works on the fundamental alterations of the Nizhny Novgorod exaltation of the Holy cross monastery. About him Bazanov (in those early years), wrote with admiration of the historian and ethnographer N. And.Hramtsovsky, contemporary Kashirina. But, unfortunately, we can no longer see the paintings of icons made by Basenowym on four huge pillars of Holy cross Church. The factory, located in the Church in Soviet times, probably, and not tried to save the traces of a gifted artist. And it is unlikely the people who worked there, knew anything about the great master.

Didn't suspect they're probably about the fact that he supervised the restoration works of the famous architect Alexander Pavlovich Brullov (the Mikhailovsky Palace in Saint Petersburg, Pulkovo Observatory, etc.), the brother of the no less famous – have artist Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (the Last days of Pompeii, etc.). But despite this ignorance of the fate of the saved (partially, of course!) for us wonderful paintings Bazanova T. V. on Central, left (?) and the right (?) the arches of the Church. And because it hovers invisibly over us, as 150 years ago, the mother of God with the son Jesus Christ, calling people to experience and therefore understand the grandeur of the world's suffering, and, understanding, to try his best to save a Person.

Surely Vasily, and his daughter Natalia, the wife of Vasily Timofeevich, not once looked at the creations in-law and husband, quietly zahoranova yourself in thoughts of impermanence of all living things. How right they were! They are not, and we are. Standing under those arches... but... too the death! But the height of the spirit of the mother of God – is eternal.

However, now the dumb C pillars ripped off them clothes we can not talk about Bazanov. But what to do?

Well at least that the pillars survived and are all the same as before "Oct", confidently carrying the main body is already restored temple. And since in the Divine world, nothing disappears without a trace, so and breathing those people and their views, which have reached the paintings, still hovering invisibly in the temple, mixing with ours and making us all contemporaries.

By the way, in Nizhni Novgorod Bazanov was the only artist-academician. Kashirin was very proud of this relationship. Son-in-law, on the other hand, helped the father-in-law to pick up paint for furs and made drawings in accordance with which was painted in the Studio kashirinskoe tissue. In General, they were linked by friendly relations.

But to my great pity, it ended sadly. Vasily Timofeyevich began to drink, and his wife and their three children began to suffer. Then Natalia became ill with tuberculosis and 4 January 1868, died at the HOMESTEAD (about it – in front of) his father, Vasily, Kovalik. Bazanov married a second time, but apparently harmful addiction to overcome ever tried. Alcohol killed him, and in 1876 he died.

But what was a boy! The portraits were painted everywhere: on the streets, in the bazaars, in the pubs. In the heat of passion – even on the walls!

(Satie M. Smirnova "About Vasily Kashirin")