From Serov to Nabokov: 8 Talented Parents of Famous Russian Writers and Artists

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

History knows many cases when whole acting, directing and musical dynasties originated from one ancestor. The heirs have to prove their worth and the right to do what they love. In literature and art, children can surpass their parents. And sometimes they have to defend their right to self-determination in the profession. And then the son of a mathematician can become a talented poet, and the daughter of an architect - the founder of a new style in art.

Nikolay Bugaev and Andrey Bely

Andrei Bely's father, Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev, was a very talented and famous mathematician, he was engaged in mathematical research all his life, is the author of manuals, was fascinated by philosophy.

It is not known how the life of Andrei Bely would have turned out if he had continued to study the natural sciences, as his father wanted. But at the beginning of the twentieth century, Boris Bugaev's fateful acquaintance with famous symbolist poets took place. The world of poetry captured the former scientist so much that he left science forever, devoting himself entirely to creativity. Andrei Bely became one of the famous poets of his time.

Ivan and Marina Tsvetaeva

Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev is an outstanding and very famous person. Philologist and art critic who devoted his life to art. Thanks to him, the Museum of Fine Arts was founded, he managed to achieve success in many areas.

With such a creatively gifted and famous father for Marina Tsvetaeva, a penchant for the fine arts was quite natural. But she was not going to do anything other than literature. Mother's attempts to tip the scales in the direction of music were unsuccessful. Marina became interested in literature at the age of six, and in three languages at once.

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Alexander and Valentin Serov

Alexander Nikolaevich Serov is a wonderful composer and critic. It cannot be said that the father of the future artist had a significant impact on the development of his son. The boy was only six when his father passed away.

Mom, a talented pianist and composer, noticing the boy's penchant for painting, found for him in Munich, where she left after the death of her husband, a good teacher. Valentin Aleksandrovich learned the basics of drawing under the guidance of Karl Köpping, and three years later, on the advice of the sculptor Mark Antokolsky, his mother found a Russian teacher for her son, who became Ilya Repin.

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Sergey and Natalia Goncharov

The undoubted influence on Natalia Goncharova's hobby for the visual arts was her father, the famous architect Sergei Goncharov. He himself painted from childhood, later applying his passion for painting in the projects of buildings. Some of the buildings created under the leadership of Sergei Mikhailovich have survived to this day in the capital.

Natalya Sergeevna painted in different styles and even, together with her husband, created her own - Luchism. During her lifetime, her works were popular, she was invited to illustrate books, the artist was also engaged in scenography. Today Natalia Goncharova is rightfully called the most expensive woman artist in the world.

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Sergey and Vladimir Soloviev

The author of one of the most detailed textbooks on the history of Russia, the rector of Moscow University Sergei Solovyov, was able to adequately raise his eight children. Each of them showed undeniable creative abilities.

The greatest success was achieved by Vladimir Sergeevich, the middle son, a famous poet, publicist and religious thinker. Vladimir Solovyov had a special influence on the development of philosophy.

Vasily and Vladimir Stasov

Vasily Stasov is the author and creator of the Narva Gate in St. Petersburg and the Triumphal Gate in the capital, with his direct participation the Tsarskoye Selo Chinese Village and Pavlovsk Barracks were erected.

But the son, unlike his father, was seriously passionate about music. However, realizing that he could become a very mediocre composer, he decided to devote his life to the development of musical art. He became not just a music critic, but the ideologue of The Mighty Handful, which symbolized a new movement in music. Vladimir Vasilievich, who headed the art department at the Public Library, devoted most of his life to collecting and preserving manuscripts of famous artists.

Leonid and Boris Pasternak

The father of the famous poet was a famous and quite successful artist. Some of his works can still be seen in the Tretyakov Gallery, and many have gone to private collections and museums around the world.

At first, Boris Pasternak was going to devote himself to music, then he became seriously interested in philosophy, but later found his true calling.

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Vladimir Dmitrievich and Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Vladimir Dmitrievich, a hereditary lawyer and politician, managing affairs in the Provisional Government, the author of many works on criminal law, was forced to emigrate with his family from Soviet Russia in 1919.

Vladimir Vladimirovich did not find anything interesting in jurisprudence, but he found his calling in literature. Already at the age of sixteen, he published his first book - a collection of poems. Subsequently, he became one of the most popular writers, was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times, although he never received it.

A lot has been written and said about the acting and directing dynasties, but about There is much less information about the continuity of generations in the families of composers, musicians and opera singers. However, often, studying the biographies of the famous composer, you can see that many grew up in musical families. And the first lessons in music or composition were received from parents or close relatives.