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'Siverskaya ,The view  to the  bridge'

                                                                                 

Tanya Balaeva...
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Landscape art from Crimea. 'Siverskaya ,The view  to the  bridge' Fine art by Tanya Balaeve

Landscape art from Crimea. 'Siverskaya ,The view  to the  bridge' Fine art by Tanya Balaeve
Landscape art from Crimea. 'Siverskaya ,The view to the bridge' Fine art by Tanya Balaeve
$NZ 1050.00
Painted at ‘plein air ‘ at the very special for me place   Siverskaya .  It is  in 75 km from St.Petersburg  .We used to have  summer house there and I spent 33 summers of my life  there . I loved every tree and every foot path in my favorite parks by  beautiful river  Ordezh  with it’s  red sandy shores  . But sadly after my grandfather passed away the house was sold , I could do nothing about it ,and to part with Siverskaya was like to part   with a  beloved  person forever . 8 years passed but I still feel the same way  about  it. I thought it is just me ,who  was so attached  to this land ,but reading autobiographical book by Vladimir  Nabokov  “ Other shores “ to my surprise I read exactly  how I feel – he wrote about almost the same area –his family Mansion  in Vira was just in a few km from our house,  the same train station ,the same river . He loved it and lost it forever ,just like I did.

I like to look at the old photos of Siverskaya  taken over 100 years ago and I did recognized the places where I painted  so often . It was a really popular summer resort for well-off citizens of St.Petersburg in the 19th -20th centuries . Many beautiful summer villas were built  then ,but I only remember  a few ones left  and mainly in ruins , as they were built of wood and neglected last several decades mostly  they all  were   destroyed by fire . Some of houses belonged to well-known  Russian writers and actors  .

Russian Classical artists –Shishkin and  Levitan  painted there and their  landscapes of Siverskaya also called “Russian Switzerland”  are  in main Russian museums now .


BIO

I was born on June the 10th , 1975  in  St. Petersburg  .
At age of 13 y.o . I was introduced to art at the studio of my first and main teacher St.Petersburg artist  M.K. Zhernosek .  His teacher  was a famous Russian artist E.E. Moiseenko .
In 1993-1998 I studied painting  at the Art  Department of  St. Petersburg Pedagogical University.
Graduated from the university  in 1998  , diploma painting "Nika".
For a number of years I  painted and taught art at chidren art studio  in St.Petersburg . Now I live and work in Crimea .  My paintings are in private collections in Russia and abroad .
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Contact : tanyabalaeva@gmail.com

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