«...He kept a good memory about himself». Creative Biography Pages of the Artist Mikhail Rutchenko

Abstract

The article attempts to study the "Krasnoyarsk period" of the artist Mikhail Rutchenko on the basis of archival documents and information gleaned from local periodicals of the pre-revolutionary period. The study emphasizes the influence of Rutchenko on the formation of creative processes of the city through pedagogical work in the field of art education, exhibition activities, social and cultural initiatives. Rutchenko gave the artistic forces of Siberia a centrifugal movement, wanting to strengthen the region with internal creative power, to consolidate the sprouts of artistic forces on the ground, to form a scenario of cultural development that would weaken the outflow of personnel from the provinces and allow local artists to develop fully away from the center of Russia.