Full version of the scandalous diary of the artist Konstantin Somov was released by the publishing house "Dmitriy Sechin"

In the light came the first full version of the scandalous diary of the artist Konstantin Somov, published in the publishing house "Dmitry Sechin."

One of the brightest miriskussnikov, Somov was a witness of the October Revolution. The diary begins with a recording of October 25, 1917, and ends on December 3, 23rd - the day the artist left Russia.

Personal impressions are fixed in an illegible handwriting on random sheets. The work to restore the records took a long time. The current publication was prepared and implemented by art critic Pavel Golubev, providing Diary of Somov with a solid scientific commentary. Elena Voroshilova - with details.

Ten years Pavel Golubev, deciphered a diary of Konstantin Somov. The artist scrupulously described every day, beginning on October 25, 1917. The October Revolution, like many others, did not notice. The recording was made the next day.

"October 27. On the sea walked to the Winter Palace, riddled with bullets, along the embankment.
29th of October. I read the morning papers. Civil war flares up. The phone does not work now. Roast beef is now a rarity. "

900 pages of text - a document of the era, the artist does not reflect, like a chronicler, dispassionately captures life in the new Russia.

"November 2. There are rumors in the city about how the Junkers were killed, the soldiers and sailors refused, and the Red Guard killed, ineptly and cruelly." Some of the soldiers cried. "

Somov is pedantic. Extremely accurate. According to his records, you can restore how events developed in the first days after the revolution.

"November 24. Conversations only about politics: All that night the soldiers were pillaging the wine cellars of the Winter Palace, the Millionth was strewn with dead bodies-drunks."

For the first time Diary Somov was published in the 79th. Then the manuscript was heavily vymarana nephew Somov. He pulled out entire pages. "There were no political moments there: Somov was skeptical of Soviet power, the red terror in his diaries," said art critic Pavel Golubev.