Peter ivanovich Korostelev. Exhibition of paintings by People's Artist of Russia Petr Guryevich Korostelev Petr Korostelev

Korostelev Pyotr Ivanovich - squad leader of the 569th infantry regiment (161st rifle division, 40th Army, Voronezh Front), sergeant.

Born on January 20, 1921 in the city of Belyov, Belevsky district, Tula province (now the regional center of the Tula region). Russian. He graduated from the 6th grade of the school. He worked as a mechanic in a mechanical workshop and as an assistant driver at the Belyov railway depot.

In the army since May 1940. He served in the NKVD troops; guarded important objects in Kiev.

Member of the Great Patriotic War since August 1941 as part of a separate battalion of the NKVD. Participated in the defense of Kiev. In September 1941, while mining objects in Kiev, he was surrounded, from which he managed to get out to his own.

From July 1942 - commander of the scout squad of the 569th Infantry Regiment (Voronezh Front). He participated in defensive battles north of Voronezh, Ostrogozh-Rossosh, Voronezh-Kastornenskaya, Kharkov offensive and defensive, Belgorod-Kharkov and Sumy-Priluki operations, the battle for the Dnieper.

Particularly distinguished himself when crossing the Dnieper. On September 23, 1943, he was among the first to cross the river near the village of Zarubintsy (Kanevsky District, Cherkasy Region, Ukraine). Having seized a bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper, the soldiers of the squad under his command destroyed enemy firing points, which contributed to the crossing of the river by other units of the regiment. In the battles to capture and hold the bridgehead, he personally destroyed dozens of Nazis, took an officer prisoner. In critical moments of the battle, he repeatedly raised the soldiers in a bayonet attack. In subsequent battles, he was seriously wounded, contused and sent to the rear hospital.

For courage and heroism shown in battles with german fascist invaders, By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated October 23, 1943 to the sergeant Peter Ivanovich Korostelyov awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal " Golden Star».

In 1945 Sergeant Major P.I. Korostelev was demobilized. In 1946 he graduated from courses at the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers. He worked as a senior engineer of the locomotive economy of the Paveletsky direction in Moscow, in 1947-1985 - as a train manager.

Honored Transport Worker of the RSFSR (1980). He was awarded the Orders of Lenin (23.10.1943), the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (11.03.1985), the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and medals.

In the city of Belyov, a memorial plaque is installed on the house in which he was born and lived.

Note: Reliable information about the future combat path absent.

Sources

		Their lofty feat is immortal. - Tula: Priokskoe book. ed., 1983
		Vorobiev V.P., Efimov N.V. Heroes of the Soviet Union: ref. - St. Petersburg, 2010.
		Heroes of the Soviet Union: krat. biogr. words. Vol. 1. - Moscow, 1987.
		Hero-liberators of the Cherkasy region. - Dnepropetrovsk: Promin, 1980
		Documents on the site "

"Seeing the character ..."

This is how the painter Pyotr Guryevich Korostelev expresses his attitude to the portrait. But this is essentially the creative principle of the artist in relation to any genre in which he works. To a genre and historical picture, a landscape, as a rule, organically included in thematic compositions, to a still life, very diverse in plot and pictorial intonations. And everywhere, in any genre and work, he is looking for a unique character that defines the image, for indeed “Art is a piece thing,” as one of Korostelev's favorite artists, Evsey Evseevich Moiseenko, said.

Filled with the artist's talent, these qualities are realized in their own way in creativity: in the approach to the model, nature, the true measure of what he saw and wrote. That is why the works with the characteristic addition to the title "From my childhood" are not accidental. She kept her memory tenaciously, and her profession “cut off” the impressions of the mowing work, the sight of a brooding river in the gentle banks, relatives, from the familiar objects that appeared later in the form of firmly written, densely painted “village” still lifes or landscapes. Such impressions are not forgotten, but they grow by what they see, developed ability "To look and see", to transform prose into poetry.

Such a transformation was taught by Korosteleva, a teacher at the Penza Art School I.S. Goryushkin-Skoropudov, and his art colleagues. They taught the traditions of V.E. Borisov-Musatov and K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse, representatives of the "Union of Russian Artists" and "Jack of Diamonds" ... He taught everything that was fused by his own vision into his own style. By no means canonical, knowing both the strength of the pasty brushstroke, and the compactness of the form, the thickening of the color and its obvious luminosity, generalization with the accuracy of the pictorial drawing, authentic objectivity and convincing decorativeness.

The artist came to comprehend the importance of the components of the work during his studies in Leningrad, visiting the unique collections of the Hermitage and the Russian Museum. But before that there was a war, a severe injury, a difficult path to Victory. All this was reflected in works filled with pride in the great representatives of Russian culture, in an enduring desire to affirm the harmony and beauty that was achieved through suffering during the difficult and heroic war years. They exacerbated the patriotic feeling, brought to life pictures about the summit phenomena of the Russian genius - M. Glinka, A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, I. Levitan, M. Mussorgsky, S. Yesenin ...

We recognize in the works of the painter our contemporaries: writer V. Shukshin, poet N. Rubtsov, artist B. Freindlich, professor P. Sukhanov, artists J. Krestovsky and B. Dalakyan, violist I. Grabko, pianist L. Grabko (the artist's wife) ... The painter's palette boldly connects the past with the present in the coordinates of times and events: “A. S. Pushkin and MI Glinka "," Komarinskaya ".

Their score is extremely expressive in terms of intonation, in its architectonics. There is a majestic as a palace "White Still Life" associated with the works of N. N. Sapunov, powerful plastic sounds impressive, close to the "Diamonds", captivates with a clear, pure melody of color, close to the muse of K. S. Petrov - Vodkin or elegiacity of V. E. Borisov - Musatova. These traditions were organically close to Korostelev's perception of the world, they acquired their own identity.

Is it not because the poetry of the artist, expressed in the words "to see character", is so clearly perceptible, which, in fact, is applicable not only to the portrait, where his credo is obvious, but also in all genres in which the painter appears. Individual uniqueness is in the faces of his characters: be it a peasant, musician, artist, historical hero or contemporary.

Still life in this series is no exception, rather an obvious example. You can fantasize: the staged space of the imaginary hall is filled only with still lifes - an impressive picture of beauty emerges. Here is "Lady with a Bouquet of Flowers", where a person and flowers make up a single image. "Still life with a white vase", as if permeated with a stream of silvery strokes; exquisite sharpness of forms, a combination of brown and pearlescent tones "Still life with dry flowers", very dynamic in its structure. Still life with a samovar is distinguished by a powerful pictorial plastic of dense, hot tones, strong tense forms, as if contrasting with the strict, verified rhythms of Still Life on a Black Tablecloth, the impulsive writing of Still Life with Reeds, and the luminous, ringing like crystal, Still Life with a rural landscape ". I remember the words of the great Martiros Saryan: “The painter has the only opportunity to express his attitude to the world - in color”. Pyotr Korostelev, who has an outstanding coloristic talent, is very close to the definition of a master, an example is his art. P. G. Korostelev creates his world with his inherent passions, reflections, comprehension and discovery of beauty.

Petr Guryevich is an extremely kind person himself in his attitude to people, the ability to rejoice at the success of another, to understand him. And this is also a special talent, so noticeable, so tangible in creativity. Korostelev also has the closest environment of spiritual communication - his family, in which his wife, pianist Larisa Grabko, is also endowed with the well-known gift of a painter and special vital energy, which apparently gives impulses to Peter Guryevich, who is alien to "secular" communication. But the space of his creative touch is wide enough, embraces both the past and the present, is fed by earthly currents that convey the strength of life and artistic reliability. It was rightly said: "An artist ends when he ceases to be surprised." I have known Petr Korostelev for over forty years, I know his work. Therefore, I can say that now the artist continues.

Leading researcher at the State Russian Museum

Ph.D. in art history, professor

Anatoly Dmitrenko.

Tel. 323 64 96, 323 35 78.