Having lived only 36 years, Guri asafovich wings went from serf to the academician of historical and portrait painting.
The fortress of Lieutenant Yegor Kudinov. According to the information that is reported by N. N. Wrangell in article 1907, the artist arrives in St. Petersburg in 1824. At this time he lives with his owner in a government building of the life guards Grenadier regiment. And since 24 August 1825 Krylov begins to attend as an auditor of the artist classes at the Academy of fine Arts. In the same year as he vulnerability on the recommendation of Mr. Grigorovich visit the Hermitage. And in 1826 Guri asafovich members of the Society patrons of the artist his work – a copy of the "head" of van Dyck. Creation of Krylov and earned positive reviews from Feb painter is officially under the protection of society.
By 1826 or early 1827, is the product of (oil on cardboard) under the name "Kitchen". The creation date of the work is determined by made it March 11, 1827 lithograph by A. Kalashnikov (Tatiana Alexeeva in the historical Museum). Due to the fact that the lithograph is the author of the pictorial source is not specified, the affiliation of cardboard brush G. A. Krylova remains unproven, although the State Russian Museum it indicates as the alleged author of the work. There is no doubt that this work belongs to someone of the disciples or followers Venetsianov. This is indicated by the choice of subject (the same motif will be used by another student Venetsianov Mikhailov in his work of 1835 "Cook"), as well as special attention. "love" for promising to build accurate transmission of natural light, the careful study of light and shade. As well as in his subsequent papers Guri asafovich will adhere to the principles developed by A. Venetsianov, then this work could well be his. Besides, it is impossible not to pay attention to the fact that the light source (presumably a window), which we can't see is where the left and evenly light the entire room, as a relief, emphasizing the cast pieces of the shadow. This motif was used by AG Venetsianov in his second version of the painting "Peasant woman with cornflowers" and this motive G. A. Krylov will repeat in his later painting "Portrait of a merchant."
All this time, G. A., Krylov continues to be a serf. He gets his freedom only in July 1828, and in September becoming idiorrhythmic (students) a student at the Medico-surgical Academy. Nevertheless, the artist continues to attend drawing classes at the Academy of fine Arts. By 1829 his work, "John the Baptist with the lamb" (a copy of the painting "John the Baptist in the wilderness").
In 1831 Krylov leaves the Medical-surgical Academy and after 2 years presents to the teachers at the Academy of fine Arts his work – a portrait Vitovtova, which gets the title of "free artist". In the 1830-ies the artist works in the field of portraiture. But in 1836, "the appointed G. A. Krylov" was given the program in historical painting: he was supposed to represent "Moses, Looking from the mountains to the promised land." The picture was completed successfully and exhibited at the academic exhibition in 1836. And in 1839 the portrait of V. I. Demut-Malinovsky Guri asafovich received the title of academician. Recent works by the artist have been 2 images: "hosts" and "12 annual holidays."
On the date of death of the painter was also a lot of controversy. N. N. Wrangel calls 1850, but the report of the Academy of fine arts a message about the death of G. A. Krylova kept in 1841. (L. Zaitseva)
