Sychkov Fedot Vasilievich paintings. Russian village in original paintings, imbued with positivity and youthful enthusiasm. The main theme of the paintings

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People's ARTIST FEDOT SYCHKOV

Fedot Vasilievich Sychkov (1870 -1958) - famous Russian artist, born into a poor peasant family in the village of Kochelaev, Penza province. At the age of twelve, the future artist lost his father.

The mother, left with her children without a piece of bread, was forced to walk around the courtyards with a knapsack, collecting “for Christ’s sake.” Showing family concern, the grandmother sent her grandson to elementary school.

School art teacher P.E. Dyumayev discovered the boy’s ability to draw and wrote a letter of petition to the court painter Mikhail Zichy.

The teacher and student waited a long time for an answer from St. Petersburg, but they did. The response letter contained advice - to send a capable student to the St. Petersburg art school, but there was no hint of what means. Fedot realized the main thing: he had to earn his own way for travel and studies.

Since childhood, Fedot Sychkov showed a talent for painting. He worked in an icon-painting workshop, painted frescoes in churches, and made portraits from photographs.

"Self-Portrait", 1893

In 1892, he went to St. Petersburg, to the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts with the support of General Arapov, who drew attention to the talented young self-taught artist.

In 1895, Sychkov graduated from the Drawing School and became a volunteer student at the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts.

After completing his studies, the artist returned to his homeland. In 1900, he was awarded the title of artist for the painting “News from the War.” The artist’s main theme is the life of peasants and rural holidays.

"Peasant Girl"

The canvases of Fedot Sychkov attract with the cheerfulness of their colors, white-toothed smiles framed by colored scarves, the radiance of the sun and snow, the aroma of field herbs...

He received six prizes at academic exhibitions in St. Petersburg.

He was awarded a silver medal at an exhibition in St. Louis (USA).

He earned an honorable mention at the International Exhibition in Rome.

And in 1908 he personally visited England, France and Germany.

These trips hardly added anything to his realistic, purely Russian painting.

But there was certainly a feeling of satisfaction from the foreign voyage as a result of what was achieved. Upon arrival in Russia, he returned to his native Kochelayevo.

"From the Mountains", 1910
"Waits"
"Girl in a Blue Shawl", 1935

Behind almost every brilliant creator is a woman who, with her support and wisdom, kept the flame of her loved one’s talent alive.

His wife, Lidiya Nikolaevna, became such a muse for Fedot Vasilievich Sychkov. She, like her husband, was keenly interested in folk culture, including Mordovian.

Lydia Nikolaevna carefully collected items of national costume and jewelry. Her collection included an incredible number of shawls, shirts, hats, belts, beads... Fedot Vasilyevich used all this wealth in his portraits.

Died in Saransk, being an Honored Artist of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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"Making a Snowman", 1910
"Troika", 1906
"Mordovian Teacher", 1937
"Girlfriends", 1916
"Buddies"
"Alma-Ata apples", 1937
"Girl in Flowers"
"Collective Farm Bazaar", 1936
"By the Hedge. Winter", 1931
"Two Girls in the Snow", 1929
"At the Hut", 1915
"Tractor Drivers", 1938
"Self-portrait", 1899
"Young Woman", 1928

"Girl"
"Asters", 1940
"Ride on Maslenitsa"
"The Reaper", 1931
"Proska", 1932
"Peasant Woman"
"Portrait of actress Alexandra Dmitrievna Pel", 1913
"Children in Flowers", 1932
"Difficult Passage", 1934
"Peasant Girl"
"Excellent student schoolgirl", 1934
"Grinka"
"Portrait of Lydia Nikolaevna Sychkova, the artist's wife", 1903
"Return from Haymaking", 1911
"Portrait of Ekaterina Vasilievna Sychkova, the artist's younger sister", 1893
"Venice. Workers' Village", 1908
"Portrait of a Girl"
"Girlfriends"
"Dancing Sonya", 1932
"Skating on Maslenitsa", (Blonde-Coquette), sketch, 1914

"Shark"
"In the Flowering Garden", 1913.
"Blessing of Water", 1916
"Back from School"
"Girl in a red scarf", sketch, 1955.

"Girl Picking Wild Flowers"
"Girl in the Garden", 1912
"Girl in an orange headscarf", 1931
"Portrait of a Woman", 1897

"Portrait of a Woman", 1930
"Woman with a child. Portrait of a Sister", 1903.
"Winter Evening", sketch, 1925
"Winter Road", 1940
"Strawberry", 1910.
"Ice drift", 1940
"Mordovka. Harvest Festival", sketch for a panel, 1937

"Portrait of a Girl"

Fedot Sychkov. Difficult transition.1900-1910

Nowadays, few people are familiar with the work of the most original artist Fedot Vasilyevich Sychkov. And in the 1910s, his works were successful not only at exhibitions in Russia, but also at the Paris Salon, where they were eagerly bought up by art lovers who showed interest in the life and art of our country.

Peasant girls and young ladies F.V. Sychkov’s works were close in popularity to the hawthorns of Konstantin Makovsky, although the lives and paths to art of the artists were polar different.

Fedot Vasilyevich Sychkov was born on March 1, 1870 into a poor peasant family in the village of Kochelaevo, Penza province. His father spent his youth working as waste workers and was a barge hauler for many years. As a child, Fedot himself had to walk with his mother with a bag, which is why his peers teased him as a beggar.

Even then, the future painter decided to learn something useful in order to earn a living. Little Fedot wanted to study, but his mother was against it. It was only thanks to the insistence of his grandmother that eight-year-old Fedot was sent to study at a three-year zemstvo school. There, teacher P.E. Dyumayev drew attention to the boy’s artistic inclinations and tried to develop them, passing on to him basic knowledge in the field of drawing and painting.

The artist's mother Anna Ivanovna Sychkova. 1898
A portrait created in the best traditions of democratic artists. In the silhouette of a small, slightly hunched figure, one feels oppressed by life. This aching note develops in a color scheme maintained in a gray-black monochrome palette.

After graduating from school, Sychkov went to work in the Saratov province and stopped in the city of Serdobsk, where he worked in the icon painting artel of D.A. Reshetnikov.
In 1892, he went to St. Petersburg, to the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts with the support of General I. A. Arapov (1844-1913), who drew attention to the talented young self-taught artist. In 1895, F. Sychkov graduated from the Drawing School and became a volunteer student at the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts. After graduation, the artist returned to his homeland.

The artist's main theme is the life of peasants and rural holidays.
Since 1960, the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. D. Erzya has housed a permanent exhibition of his works (the funds of this museum contain the largest collection of paintings and graphic works by Sychkov - about 600 works, including etudes and sketches).

In 1970, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding painter, an order was issued by the Ministry of Culture of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to open a memorial museum in the artist’s homeland. The house-museum of F.V. Sychkov was opened on March 11, 1970 in the village. Kochelaev after some reconstruction of the premises.

Folk festivals, mountain skiing, weddings, gatherings - this is not a complete range of themes and motifs that attracted the master. He managed to convey in his paintings the ingenuous fun of villagers.

The paintings are painted easily and freely with the true skill of a genre artist. What attracts them is the brightness of the portrait characteristics of the characters, the ability to plastically accurately compose multi-figure compositions, and find expressive poses and gestures that give special emotional openness to the images.

In parallel with the main line dedicated to the life and everyday life of the peasantry, a second line developed in Sychkov’s work in the 1900s - this line is associated with a ceremonial commissioned portrait.

Portrait in black. Portrait of Lydia Vasilievna Sychkova, the Artist’s Wife. 1904
The portrait reveals the richness of a woman’s inner world, dreaminess, enlightened sadness, echoing in its tonality the images of Chekhov’s heroines. Lidia Vasilievna Ankudinova, an elegant, fragile St. Petersburg young lady, became the artist’s real muse. The role of this woman in the fate of F.V. Sychkova was significant and invaluable.

In 1903, she became the artist’s wife, sharing with him all the joys and sorrows for the rest of her life. She lived with him in the village of Kochelaevo, in the Mordovian outback, attended exhibitions, and was aware of all the events of artistic life. She was respected and appreciated by many artists - friends of F.V. Sychkova.

Children's portraits became an interesting page in the artist's work. He first turned to them in the 900s, except for a few student sketches, where children posed for him as models. Both painted and watercolor portraits of children show the author’s serious and deep understanding of the child’s soul.

He tirelessly painted his native village, the rickety fences, the huts that had grown into the ground, and the spring floods of full-flowing Moksha. The small winter sketches, designed in grey-bluish tones, are imbued with intimacy and warmth of mood.
The landscapes are based on a deep poetic feeling, the master’s admiration for the exciting beauty of Russian nature in its modest charm.

Sychkov wrote: “I have done a lot in recent years, depicting Mordovian life, but how could it be otherwise, because I turned out to be a real resident of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Here I was... awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the MASSR... given a personal pension. Well, that’s why I am connected with the Mordovians firmly and for life." It is no coincidence that in the 1930s, when Mordovian autonomy was formed, the national theme occupied a special place in the artist’s work.

Mordovian teacher. 1937
Mordovian tractor drivers. 1938.
In the second half of the 30s, the themes of Sychkov’s art expanded by turning to Soviet reality.

Collective Farm Bazaar.1936
Harvest Festival.1938
Similar canvases glorifying the happy collective farm life were painted by many artists at that time. These two large-format canvases were created by the author in the shortest possible time at the request of the exhibition committee of the Volga region pavilion for the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow.

Sychkov did not strive to depict people with complex, contradictory characters. In almost every one of his works one can feel a soft, benevolent view of the world, sincerity and humanity. It is true that a portrait is always a double image: the image of the artist and the image of the model.

“I don’t want to be old,” Sychkov wrote in one of his letters to the artist E. M. Cheptsov. “As they say, artists cannot age; their work must always be young and interesting.” In his eighth decade of life, he created such canvases full of fresh feelings as “Return from School” (1945), “Meeting of the Hero” (1952).

For the last two years before his death, Sychkov lived in Saransk. He still worked hard, with ecstasy and inspiration. For him, painting was a real source of joy. “Life on earth is so beautiful... but the life of an artist in the full sense is the most interesting of all occupations...” - lines from a letter from F.V. Sychkova can be an epigraph to the work of this painter, in love with the world around him. He died in 1958.

A gallery of the artist’s works can be viewed here. http://maxpark.com/community/6782/content/5002408

Name F.V. Sychkov, an original Russian painter, is not known to everyone today. And in the 10s of the last century, his paintings were successfully exhibited not only throughout Russia, but also in the Art-Saloon in Paris, and were readily purchased by Europeans interested in Russian culture and the life of ordinary people. Sychkov's portraits of peasant girls and young ladies competed in popularity with K. Makovsky's hawthorns, although the paths of these two artists never crossed.

A little from the painter's biography

Fedot Sychkov (born in Mordovia) spent his childhood in a peasant family, in hardship and poverty. Having felt a craving for drawing from an early age, the gifted young man set himself a firm goal - to go to study at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. But this required considerable funds. The young painter managed to earn them at an icon painting school, where he created wall frescoes that have survived to this day. In addition, starting from adolescence, the future master of genre portraits painted pictures based on photographs to order.

In 1895, 25-year-old Fedot Vasilyevich Sychkov became a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. During these same years, his original painting style and preferences in art were finally formed: the themes of peasant life and rural holidays became a priority in his work. The collection of 700 paintings from his creative heritage also includes many portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.

F. Sychkov’s amazingly emotional paintings still make an impression on everyone who sees them. And in those years, the subjects of his works were so close and understandable to people that very soon the artist gained nationwide popularity. His paintings have participated in national and international exhibitions many times, winning many awards. The artist lived to the age of 88, becoming an Honored Artist of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Updated paintings by F. Sychkov

A few years ago at the Museum of Art. S.D. Erzya in Mordovia, an updated exhibition of the artist’s works was organized. His fellow countrymen managed to find and restore previously unknown paintings and present them to the public. This event was timed to coincide with the anniversary date - the 140th anniversary of the birth of the famous artist.

Some works, previously stored in the museum’s storerooms, dated back to the master’s formative years. Light, filled with an air of light and color, the canvases of early Sychkov were radically different from what he painted in his mature years.

The “Italian Cycle”, written during a trip to Rome, Menton, and Venice, was presented to the general public. These are mainly landscapes, as well as works depicting architectural masterpieces: the Colosseum, the Forum, St. Mark's Square. Of particular interest to the public was the updated painting “The Laying of the Arapovo Station” - also one of the early works that became fateful in the creative biography of Fedot Sychkov.

The Mordovian Museum has a huge part of the artist’s heritage - about 600 paintings and sketches. A permanent exhibition of Sychkov’s works has been running there for more than half a century – since 1960. For his centenary anniversary as a master in 1970, the painter’s house was restored in the village of Kochelaevo, in which a museum in memory of the outstanding artist was then opened. The exhibition of the house-museum carefully contains not only paintings, but also many things that belonged to Fedot Sychkov and his family.

(now on the territory of Mordovia), Russian Empire

Fedot Vasilievich Sychkov(March 13 (March 1, old style), Kochelaevo village, Penza province (now in the territory of Mordovia), Russian Empire - August 3, Saransk, Mordovian ASSR, USSR) - famous Russian (Soviet) artist, Honored Artist of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1937), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1950), People's Artist of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1955).

Biography

Born into a poor peasant family. Orphaned early.

He studied at a three-year zemstvo school in the village of Kochelaev, showed a talent for drawing from childhood, and studied drawing with the school teacher P. E. Dyumaev. He worked in an icon-painting workshop, painted frescoes in churches, and made portraits from photographs. From 1885 to 1887 he worked in Serdobsk, Penza province, with the contractor icon painter D. A. Reshetnikov.

From 1887 to 1892 he lived in Kochelaev, independently painted, painted icons and portraits of fellow villagers. In 1892, by order of General I. A. Arapov (1844-1913), whose estate was located near Kochelaev, he painted the painting “Laying the foundation of Arapovo station”. Shown to the director of the Drawing School for Free Visitors E. A. Sabaneev, the painting made an impression. Noting Sychkov’s talent, Sabaneev advised to bring the young man to St. Petersburg.

In 1892, Sychkov moved to St. Petersburg and entered the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. He was supported by General I. A. Arapov. In 1895, F. Sychkov graduated from the Drawing School and became a volunteer student at the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts. After completing his studies, the artist returned to his homeland.

In 1900, he was awarded the title of artist for the painting “News from the War.” In 1905 he was awarded the A.I. Kuindzhi Prize at the Spring Exhibition at the Academy of Arts for the painting “Flax Grinders”. Elected member of the Committee of the Society for Mutual Aid of Russian Artists.

In 1908 he went on a trip to Italy, France, Germany, bringing back many landscapes of Rome, Venice, Menton and sea views.

In 1909-1917, Sychkov’s works were repeatedly celebrated at Russian and international art exhibitions.

In 1918-1920, he participated in the design of revolutionary holidays in the city of Narovchat, at the Arapovo station and in his native village of Kochelaev.

In recent years he lived in Saransk.

Creation

The artist's main theme is the life of peasants and rural holidays. The most famous works of Sychkov:

• “Portrait of Anna Ivanovna Sychkova, the artist’s mother” (1898)
• "News from the War" (1900)
• "Portrait of a Woman" (1903)
• "Portrait in Black" (1904)
• “Flax Millers” (1905, A.I. Kuindzhi Prize at the Spring Exhibition at the Academy of Arts - 1905)
• "Girlfriends" (1909)
• "From the Mountains" (1910)
• "Return from Haymaking" (1911)
• “Riding at Maslenitsa” (1914)
• “Return from the Fair” (first prize at the closed All-Russian competition of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts - 1910)
• "Country Wedding"
• "Water Blessing"
• "Waits"
• “Difficult Passage” (incentive prize at the International Exhibition in Rome - 1911, prize at the Spring Exhibition at the Academy of Arts - 1913)
• "Holiday" (1927)
• "Holiday. Girlfriends. Winter" (1929)
• “Day off on the collective farm” (1936)
• "Collective Farm Bazaar" (1936)
• "Mordovian Teacher" (1937)
• “Mordovian Tractor Drivers” (1938)
• "Harvest Festival" (1938)
• “Deed for the eternal free use of land” (1938)
• "Back from School" (1945)
• "Meeting of the Hero" (1952).

Perpetuation of memory

• Since 1960, the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. D. Erzya has housed a permanent exhibition of his works (the funds of this museum contain the largest collection of paintings and graphic works by Sychkov - about 600 works, including etudes and sketches).
• In 1970, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding painter, an order was issued by the Ministry of Culture of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to open a memorial museum in the artist’s homeland. The house-museum of F.V. Sychkov was opened on March 11, 1970 in the village. Kochelaev after some reconstruction of the premises.
• Mordovian Republican Art Gallery named after. F. V. Sychkova.

F. Sychkov’s painting “Pretty” was in the private collection of the famous aerodynamicist G. N. Abramovich

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“It’s a real march!... I knew it,” said the uncle (he was a distant relative, a poor neighbor of the Rostovs), “I knew that you couldn’t stand it, and it’s good that you’re going.” Pure march! (This was my uncle’s favorite saying.) - Take the order now, otherwise my Girchik reported that the Ilagins are standing in Korniki with pleasure; You have them - pure march! - they will take the brood under your nose.
- That's where I'm going. What, to bring down the flocks? - Nikolai asked, - get out...
The hounds were united into one pack, and uncle and Nikolai rode side by side. Natasha, wrapped in scarves, from under which a lively face with sparkling eyes could be seen, galloped up to them, accompanied by Petya and Mikhaila, the hunter who was not far behind her, and the guard who was assigned as her nanny. Petya laughed at something and beat and pulled his horse. Natasha deftly and confidently sat on her black Arab and with a faithful hand, without effort, reined him in.
Uncle looked disapprovingly at Petya and Natasha. He did not like to combine self-indulgence with the serious business of hunting.
- Hello, uncle, we're on our way! – Petya shouted.
“Hello, hello, but don’t run over the dogs,” the uncle said sternly.
- Nikolenka, what a lovely dog, Trunila! “he recognized me,” Natasha said about her favorite hound dog.
“Trunila, first of all, is not a dog, but a survivor,” thought Nikolai and looked sternly at his sister, trying to make her feel the distance that should have separated them at that moment. Natasha understood this.
“Don’t think, uncle, that we will interfere with anyone,” said Natasha. We will remain in our place and not move.
“And a good thing, countess,” said the uncle. “Just don’t fall off your horse,” he added: “otherwise it’s pure marching!” – there’s nothing to hold on to.
The island of the Otradnensky order was visible about a hundred yards away, and those arriving were approaching it. Rostov, having finally decided with his uncle where to throw the hounds from and showing Natasha a place where she could stand and where nothing could run, set off for a race over the ravine.
“Well, nephew, you’re becoming like a seasoned man,” said the uncle: don’t bother ironing (etching).
“As necessary,” answered Rostov. - Karai, fuit! - he shouted, responding with this call to his uncle’s words. Karai was an old and ugly, brown-haired male, famous for the fact that he single-handedly took on a seasoned wolf. Everyone took their places.
The old count, knowing his son’s hunting ardor, hurried not to be late, and before those who arrived had time to drive up to the place, Ilya Andreich, cheerful, rosy, with trembling cheeks, rode up on his little black ones along the greenery to the hole left for him and, straightening his fur coat and putting on his hunting clothes, shells, climbed onto his smooth, well-fed, peaceful and kind, gray-haired Bethlyanka like him. The horses and droshky were sent away. Count Ilya Andreich, although not a hunter by heart, but who firmly knew the hunting laws, rode into the edge of the bushes from which he was standing, took apart the reins, adjusted himself in the saddle and, feeling ready, looked back smiling.
Next to him stood his valet, an ancient but overweight rider, Semyon Chekmar. Chekmar kept in his pack three dashing, but also fat, like the owner and the horse - wolfhounds. Two dogs, smart, old, lay down without packs. About a hundred paces further away in the edge of the forest stood another of the Count's stirrups, Mitka, a desperate rider and passionate hunter. The Count, according to his old habit, drank a silver glass of hunting casserole before the hunt, had a snack and washed it down with a half-bottle of his favorite Bordeaux.
Ilya Andreich was a little flushed from the wine and the ride; his eyes, covered with moisture, shone especially, and he, wrapped in a fur coat, sitting on the saddle, had the appearance of a child who was going for a walk. Thin, with drawn-in cheeks, Chekmar, having settled down with his affairs, glanced at the master with whom he lived for 30 years in perfect harmony, and, understanding his pleasant mood, waited for a pleasant conversation. Another third person approached cautiously (apparently he had already learned) from behind the forest and stopped behind the count. The face was that of an old man with a gray beard, wearing a woman's hood and a high cap. It was the jester Nastasya Ivanovna.
“Well, Nastasya Ivanovna,” the count said in a whisper, winking at him, “just trample the beast, Danilo will give you the task.”
“I myself... have a mustache,” said Nastasya Ivanovna.
- Shhh! – the count hissed and turned to Semyon.
– Have you seen Natalya Ilyinichna? – he asked Semyon. - Where is she?
“He and Pyotr Ilyich got up in the weeds from the Zharovs,” answered Semyon, smiling. - Also ladies, but they have a big hunt.
“Are you surprised, Semyon, how she drives… huh?” - said the count, if only the man was in time!
- How not to be surprised? Boldly, deftly.
-Where is Nikolasha? Above Lyadovsky top or what? the Count asked in a whisper.
- That's right, sir. They already know where to stand. They know how to drive so subtly that sometimes Danila and I are amazed,” said Semyon, knowing how to please the master.
- It drives well, huh? And what about the horse, huh?
- Paint a picture! Just the other day, a fox was snatched from the Zavarzinsky weeds. They began to jump over, out of delight, passion - the horse is a thousand rubles, but the rider has no price. Look for such a fine fellow!
“Search...,” the count repeated, apparently regretting that Semyon’s speech ended so soon. - Search? - he said, turning away the flaps of his fur coat and taking out a snuff box.
“The other day, as Mikhail Sidorich came out from mass in full regalia...” Semyon did not finish, hearing the rut clearly heard in the quiet air with the howling of no more than two or three hounds. He bowed his head, listened and silently threatened the master. “They’ve attacked the brood...” he whispered, and they led him straight to Lyadovskaya.

Fedot Vasilievich Sychkov(March 13 (March 1, old style) 1870, Kochelaevo village, Penza province (now in the territory of Mordovia), Russian Empire - August 3, 1958, Saransk, Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) - famous Russian (Soviet) artist, Honored Artist Mordovian ASSR (1937), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1950), People's Artist of the Mordovian ASSR (1955).

Biography

Born into a poor peasant family. Orphaned early.

He studied at a three-year zemstvo school in the village of Kochelaev, showed a talent for drawing from childhood, and studied drawing with the school teacher P. E. Dyumaev. He worked in an icon-painting workshop, painted frescoes in churches, and made portraits from photographs. From 1885 to 1887 he worked in Serdobsk, Penza province, with the contractor icon painter D. A. Reshetnikov.

From 1887 to 1892 he lived in Kochelaev, independently painted, painted icons and portraits of fellow villagers. In 1892, by order of General I. A. Arapov (1844-1913), whose estate was located not far from Kochelaev, he painted the painting “The laying of the Arapovo station.” Shown to the director of the Drawing School for Free Visitors E. A. Sabaneev, the painting made an impression. Noting Sychkov’s talent, Sabaneev advised to bring the young man to St. Petersburg.

In 1892, Sychkov moved to St. Petersburg and entered the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. He was supported by General I. A. Arapov. In 1895, F. Sychkov graduated from the Drawing School and became a volunteer student at the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts. After completing his studies, the artist returned to his homeland.

In 1900, he was awarded the title of artist for the painting “News from the War.” In 1905 he was awarded the A.I. Kuindzhi Prize at the Spring Exhibition at the Academy of Arts for the painting “Flax Grinders”. Elected member of the Committee of the Society for Mutual Aid of Russian Artists.

In 1908 he went on a trip to Italy, France, Germany, bringing back many landscapes of Rome, Venice, Menton and sea views.

In 1909-1917, Sychkov’s works were repeatedly celebrated at Russian and international art exhibitions.

In 1918-1920 he participated in the design of revolutionary holidays in the city of Narovchat, at the Arapovo station and in his native village of Kochelaev.

In recent years he lived in Saransk.

Creation

The artist's main theme is the life of peasants and rural holidays. The most famous works of Sychkov:

• “Portrait of Anna Ivanovna Sychkova, the artist’s mother” (1898)
• "News from the War" (1900)
• "Portrait of a Woman" (1903)
• "Portrait in Black" (1904)
• “Flax Millers” (1905, A.I. Kuindzhi Prize at the Spring Exhibition at the Academy of Arts - 1905)
• "Girlfriends" (1909)
• "From the Mountains" (1910)
• "Return from Haymaking" (1911)
• “Riding at Maslenitsa” (1914)
• “Return from the Fair” (first prize at the closed All-Russian competition of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts - 1910)
• "Country Wedding"
• "Water Blessing"
• "Waits"
• “Difficult Passage” (incentive prize at the International Exhibition in Rome - 1911, prize at the Spring Exhibition at the Academy of Arts - 1913)
• "Holiday" (1927)
• "Holiday. Girlfriends. Winter" (1929)
• “Day off on the collective farm” (1936)
• "Collective Farm Bazaar" (1936)
• "Mordovian Teacher" (1937)
• “Mordovian Tractor Drivers” (1938)
• "Harvest Festival" (1938)
• “Deed for the eternal free use of land” (1938)
• "Back from School" (1945)
• "Meeting of the Hero" (1952).

Perpetuation of memory

• Since 1960, the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. D. Erzya has housed a permanent exhibition of his works (the funds of this museum contain the largest collection of paintings and graphic works by Sychkov - about 600 works, including etudes and sketches).
• In 1970, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding painter, an order was issued by the Ministry of Culture of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to open a memorial museum in the artist’s homeland. The house-museum of F.V. Sychkov was opened on March 11, 1970 in the village. Kochelaev after some reconstruction of the premises.
• Mordovian Republican Art Gallery named after. F. V. Sychkova.

F. Sychkov’s painting “Pretty” was in the private collection of the famous aerodynamicist G. N. Abramovich