Mihail Chemiakin

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Mihail Mikhailovich Chemiakin (born 4 May 1943) is a Russian painter, stage designer, sculptor, and publisher who is also a vehement defender of St. Petersburg's nonconventionist art style.

Early life

Chemiakin was born to a military family. His father, a Kabardian from the Caucasus Mountains, had lost his parents and was adopted by a friend of his father's, White Army officer Piotr Chemiakin. The artist's father became a Soviet Army officer later in life. At the age of thirteen, he was one of the first Orders of the Red Banner. Yulia Nikolaevna Predtechenskaya of Russian noble origins was Chemiakin's mother, an actress and poet. She met her future husband in 1941 at the start of the Great Patriotic War and begged him to accompany her to the front line. She served in cavalry under Lev Dovator's command and was involved in wars with her husband.

Mihail Chemiakin spent his childhood in East Germany, where his father was stationed. In 1957, his family returned to the Soviet Union. He attended Leningrad's secondary school of art but was barred from it in 1961 for "aesthetic deprivation" of classmates and inability to comply with Socialistic Realism requirements. He worked in various niche professions between 1959 and 1971, most of which were involved in various art exhibits.

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Career

He later worked at the Hermitage Museum. In 1964, Chemiakin's associates curated an exhibition, but the museum's director was fired and all the participants were forced to leave, prompting the museum's founder to resign. He formed St. Petersburg, a group of artists, in 1967. He created Metaphysical Synthesism, a book dedicated to "new interpretations of icon painting based on the study of religious art of all epochs and countries" together with scholar Vladimir Ivanov. He was forced psychiatric care, and he was banned from the Soviet Union in 1971. Chemiakin explains that the KGB officer behind this scheme saved him by promising to "quietly leave the country" with $50 in the pocket, because some members of the Artists' Union of the USSR insisted on his seclusion.

He died in France, where he published Apollon-77, an almanac of post-Stalinist art, poetry, and photography. In 1981, he came to New York. Since being in Russia in the early 1990s, he returned to work on street shows by Slava Polunin, ballets by the Mariinsky Theatre, a television series distributed by Russia-K and other government-sponsored projects. He moved to France, where he currently lives.

Chemiakin works in a variety of media and fields, as shown in his 2010 two-volume book on his art, Mihail Chemiakin (Azbooka publishers, St. Petersburg).

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Chemiakin created "Children Are the Victims of Adult Vices," a series of sculptures in a park 2000 feet south of the Kremlin, behind the British Ambassador's residence in 2001. Peter the Great in Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Peter and Paul Fortress, Peter the Great in London, and Peter the Great in London's Peter and Paul Fortress, Peter the Great, and Peter the Great in London's Peter the Great in Peter and Paul Fortress's Peter and Paul Fortress (North Ossetia), Vladimir Vysotsky in Samara, Russia.

He has been working as an artistic designer on the Russian animated film Hoffmaniada since about 2001. In 2001, he conceived and produced a completely new production of The Nutcracker for the Mariinsky Theatre, where he also created a second ballet based on Hoffman's "The Magic Nut." The artist created "Coppelia" for the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre in 2010.

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