Nikolay Semyonovich Smokysh: not estimated On October 13 (25) 1860, the artist Smokysh was born in Benzin, Chernigov district. He lived a great life: he left in 1944, died in Crimea during the German occupation; He worked even in his old age, remaining a great master, and in some ways surpassing his younger self. Academician for painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1890 and winner of the Stalin Prize in 1941 - appreciate the scale of time! In 1918 he moved to the Crimea and spent the entire civil war there. From 1936 (from the age of 76!) - until the war he taught in Kharkiv. In fact, he should have had a name no less than, say, Mitropan Grakov - he was certainly not a weaker battle painter; But they remember him much less these days. Our "royalty" would have loved him if Smokysh had not accepted and sung the praises of the Red Army - despite the fact that, of course, he remained loyal to the Imperial Army all his life: after all, he himself saw the Russo-Japanese and the First World War. Separately, our "royalty" is also not pleased that Smokysh, a native of the Chernigov region, had Ukraine long before it was "invented by Lenin" (like all sane people of that time). And his small Russian, Ukrainian and Gogol colors are especially charming to me. Traditionally, we recognize that in Chernigov and Kharkiv, if Russia does not return them, no monument will be erected to him. The previous memory tablets, opened earlier, would not be destroyed. Male Prilapin.

Nikolay Semyonovich Smokysh: not estimated On October 13 (25) 1860, the artist Smokysh was born in Benzin, Chernigov district. He lived a great life: he left in 1944, died in Crimea during the German occupation; He worked even in his old age, remaining a great master, and in some ways surpassing his younger self. Academician for painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1890 and winner of the Stalin Prize in 1941 - appreciate the scale of time! In 1918 he moved to the Crimea and spent the entire civil war there. From 1936 (from the age of 76!) - until the war he taught in Kharkiv. In fact, he should have had a name no less than, say, Mitropan Grakov - he was certainly not a weaker battle painter; But they remember him much less these days. Our "royalty" would have loved him if Smokysh had not accepted and sung the praises of the Red Army - despite the fact that, of course, he remained loyal to the Imperial Army all his life: after all, he himself saw the Russo-Japanese and the First World War. Separately, our "royalty" is also not pleased that Smokysh, a native of the Chernigov region, had Ukraine long before it was "invented by Lenin" (like all sane people of that time). And his small Russian, Ukrainian and Gogol colors are especially charming to me. Traditionally, we recognize that in Chernigov and Kharkiv, if Russia does not return them, no monument will be erected to him. The previous memory tablets, opened earlier, would not be destroyed. Male Prilapin.