Oil painting Everyday life of people Andrey Ivanovich Serkov

№758


*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Everyday life of people"
* ARTISTS: Andrey Ivanovich Serkov
* SIZE: 100x158 cm/'39.37x62.20 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product

About the artists: Born in Buzuluk in a family of doctors, he studied and grew up in Moscow. After graduation, he worked for a year at the publishing house of Moscow University. Then he studied at the History Department of Moscow State University, which he graduated in 1987. The supervisor is Professor V. A. Fedorov. After graduation, he worked as a history teacher at the school for a year and a half, then transferred to full-time postgraduate study.

In the spring of 1991, at Moscow State University, he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of historical sciences on the topic “Russian Freemasonry. 1800-1861 ”(specialty 07.00.02 -“ Domestic history ”) [3] Official opponents - I.V. Porokh and S.V. Mironenko [4].

At the end of graduate school, he worked briefly at the Terra Publishing Center. He studied archives in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tver, Kharkov, Paris, Boston. Since the 1990s, he has repeatedly received research grants from the House of Human Sciences (Maison de Sciences de l'Homme) (Paris), including the so-called “Bourse Didro”. As a result, he spent more than a year in Paris. I received assistance in working with the French Masonic archives from T. A. Bakunina. At the suggestion and with the help of D. E. Galkovsky, since 2000, the site of the latest “Samizdat” has posted materials on the site of the Russian Freemasonry page that are being prepared for publication in the encyclopedic dictionary “Russian Freemasonry. 1731-2000. " In addition to the author's works on the history of Freemasonry, he is also the publisher of the works of freemasons and historians of Freemasonry: N. I. Novikova, T. A. Bakunina, G. V. Vernadsky, N. P. Kiselev, Z. N. Gippius, G. V. Adamovich , M. A. Osorgin, G. I. Gazdanova, V. S. Arsenyev and others. He was a member of the editorial boards during the publication of the collected works of M. A. Osorgin and G.V. Adamovich.

From 1992 to March 2020 he worked in the Department of Manuscripts (OR) of the Russian State Library [2] [5]. From 2001, he was a corresponding member, from 2003 to 2007 - a full member of the IFLA Standing Committee of Rare and Handwritten Books (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions). Since March 2020, a senior research fellow at the Department of Literary Heritage A.M. Institute of World Literature Gorky RAS.

In 1993 and 2017 he organized exhibitions dedicated to Freemasonry [6] [7].

As an expert historian, he repeatedly spoke on the radio stations Radio of Russia, Ekho Moskvy, television channels Culture, Russia Today, Russia 24, and others.

In 2015, he became one of the compilers of the site “Art and Architecture of the Russian Abroad” [8].