Biography of Samson Sukhanov

The portrait of Vasily Tropinin through the building of the twelve colleges of St. Petersburg State University is easy to reach the M. Gorky scientific library-by arrow: “Samson Sukhanov. Column affairs master. " The portrait is a beautiful old man, looks more like a beggar than a famous and highly paid master - a stone -toleure and sculptor. Connoisseurs and admirers of his talent gathered for a lecture to find out the details about a person who, with his talent, glorified Petersburg throughout the world.

Until the lecturer began his story, the audience discusses the only image of Samson Sukhanov: “I saw this portrait by chance in one of the Moscow museums. And for a long time he could not forget the gaze of this old man. In all his appearance - dignity! And your hands, look, what a trimmed and at the same time thin, talking fingers. ” Valentina Stolbova, the author of the book about Samson Sukhanov Valentina Stolbova, studied for fifteen years in the archives the life and work of our fellow countryman.

About Samson Sukhanov, a native of the Krasnoborskaya land, she wrote the pages of a scientific monograph. The manuscript is ready for printing and awaits in the afternoon in the publishing house "Lika of Russia". Samson Sukhanov came to the city on the Neva from the Krasnoborskaya Village of the factory. Guys from the northern villages went to St. Petersburg to work.

But the results of the works of Samson Sukhanov are special - more than two centuries visiting cards of the northern capital of Russia: the entire ensemble of the arrows of the Vasilyevsky Island, including the colonnade of the exchange, rostral columns with figures symbolizing the Neva and Volkhov, the Volga and the Dnieper, and the stone balls decorating the Neva embankment. To create almost columns of the Kazan Cathedral and the marble mosaic floor in it, the Krasnoborsky master spent seven years of life.

And then he began the hut of huge whole columns from granite for the Isaac's Cathedral. They still have no analogues in the world. He was hired by the famous architects Andrei Voronikhin and August Montferrand. And the Russian sovereign Alexander the First awarded Samson Ksenofontovich richly embroidered caftan and the gold medal "For zeal". Also, the creations of the hands of a nugget from Krasnoborsk are granite embankments of St.

Petersburg, bridges, fountains, sculptures. And only Samson Sukhanov could skillfully work with a stone. In memory of the fellow countryman, the inhabitants of Krasnoborsk are going to restore the church, which is almost three hundred years ... The rumor of the Evda Voznesensky church during the celebration of the Flying Samson Sukhanov when Valentina Petrovna completed the performance, she was asked why she began to study the personality of Samson Sukhanov.

Valentina Petrovna told the story amazing in her simplicity. In the year, the Government of St. Petersburg came a letter from the Krasnoborsky district of the Arkhangelsk region. To complete the project, there was not enough ... eight thousand rubles. A monument in the homeland of Samson Sukhanov, who is opened by his countrymen. They brought boards right in the field, made tables from them, and the treats were brought from the house.

They sang about Eve-Reyuka and about the land of the fathers, conducted sincere conversations and were sad that there was so little information about the miracle-car of the countryman. Then, in the field of the Red Born, an employee of the Mining Institute Valentina Petrovna Stolbova promised fellow countrymen Samson Sukhanova that she would look in the archives about the descendants of the sculptor - at least.

But it turned out to the maximum-she wrote a book where, on the basis of archival documents, including genuine contracts of the artels Samson Samson Sukhanov, his authorship was proved in the creation of more than 50 building structures, which became visiting cards not only of St. Petersburg, but also in Russia. Samson Sukhanov was led not by self -interest, but by love for the Fatherland - such was his life motto ...

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