Fedor
Konstantinovich Shmelev

He was born on February, 3 (January, 22 Old Style), 1899 in Slobodskoe, Vyatka province in a large bourgeois family. (Shmelevs - old residents of Vyatka suburbs of Slobodskoe, mentioned in the census of 1710 as servants of the church and posadets - the census of the stolnik S.D. Trakhaniotov: priest Simeon Yakovlev Shmelev, 31 years old, he has a wife, etc.). -RSHA f. 1209, op. 1, d. 1034, fol. 256 -477.) Graduated from VHUTEMAS in 1928, where he studied with I. Mashkov. Painter. Master of still life. Participated in 1926-1928 in the Moscow group of artists "wing". After graduation he came to live and work in the city of Perm, where he also conducted teaching work. In 1931-1932 he was arrested by the OGPU, but was released six months later. In the middle of 1932 he moved to Sverdlovsk - now Yekaterinburg.Member of the Union of artists of the USSR from 7.09.1933. (Member of the b. No. 25). Since 1920. -The participant of the Moscow, Perm, Sverdlovsk regional and other exhibitions. Including - exhibitions in the United States (Philadelphia) in 1929 y. Still-lifes of Feodor K. Shmeleva are colorful major, juicy in color, they are characterized by compositional integrity, cheerfulness. In 1938 F.K.Shmeleva created a panel in Sverdlovsk the Palace of pioneers. By the end of the thirties the canvases of the artist become more contrasting, saturated ("Fruits and a game", 1947). In military and postwar years created and drawings - "Firing squad", "Threshing" (EMII), reflecting the harsh truth of life. Many years (1938-1960) Fedor Konstantinovich Shmelev worked as a teacher of the Sverdlovsk art school named after I.D. Shadr. His students remembered him as a very demanding, strict teacher. He lived more than 90 years. Since April 1960, he lived at 62 Lenin Avenue, Building 1, entrance 1. In this house lived many artists - members of the Sverdlovsk regional organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR. A short stature, fairly strong build, bald, black as buttons, then as drills, his eyes. He was dressed neatly, but all in one broad gray suit. He made an impression of a completely closed person who did not need anyone. Hardly anyone could see the least bit of charm in him. But the man was with his own interesting world and was really good. After this publication there appeared a reference from Moscow to the archive fund of F.K.Shmelev: RGALI, f.2940, op.7, fid. 2009. V.V. Egorov (Grivsky)