*bonus* One peasant that became an artist
In the last letter I added his artwork.
I absolutely love the Impressionism and its Russian stream is particularly special to me. The other day I was browsing the artworks of the Russian artists and *наткнулась на* one that took my breath away. What amazed me was that the artist was born to the peasant family lived in Moshenka village (near Svoboda).
Вечерние тени
Tit Dvornikov was born on February 25 in 1862 and in a couple of years all his family moved to Kharkov where his father commenced his business baking bread. Tit *помогал своему отцу* and visited the art classes. When he needed to make decision regarding how to earn his daily bread, he moved to Odessa to advance his drawing skills.
His contemporaries described him as…
Дворников был человеком (1)_____, немногословным, стеснительным. В нём не было (2)_____ блеска и светских талантов, но друзья “знали его со всем его *чутким* благородным умом и ребяческой (3)_____”.
I.
You noticed, I blue-pencilled a few characteristics… Could you find the right one in its proper order and form (declension or case)?
внешний, застенчивый, тихий
Вечереет
He was a pretty humble person and his main job was to teach students to draw. By the end of his life he became a professor at Odessa art school. I have got another excerpt for you (and, unfortunately, I couldn’t find the very art-work described below).
II. Try to fill in with the right endings in some words.
В своё время писатель и художник Н. Вучетич отозвался о картине Дворникова “Весною”: “Она написан_ так просто и правдиво, в таких верных и симпатичн__ тонах и с таким чисто весенним настроени__, что, всмотревшись в неё, вы никак не можете отрешиться от впечатлени_, что перед вами сама натура”.
Could you instinctively find the right one or ..? Let me know.
Reading today’s letter, you saw two works of Dvornikov. How would you describe it? Они пастельные? Тёплые? или… скучные?
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed reading and found exercises challenging enough.
Спасибо, что дочитал(а) до конца!
Мини-словарик
Наткнуться на (что\кого-либо) - to stumble across, to come across
Чуткий - sensitive, empathetic
KEYS
I. 1. тихим, 2. внешнего, 3. застенчивостью
II. написана, симпатичных, настроением, впечатления
Interesting story