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The Vision to the Youth Bartholomew

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29: 147:. I have to study reading and writing, and I am sorely vexed that I cannot learn these things. Will you, holy Father, pray to God for me, that he will give me understanding of book-learning?" The monk raised his hands and his eyes toward heaven, sighed, prayed to God, then said, "Amen." 119:
The image of St. Sergius of Radonezh, who had been born Bartholomew, was near and dear to the artist since childhood and was the embodiment of the moral ideal for Nesterov. Nesterov gave St. Sergius a particularly important role in rallying the
136:, a stranger, a priest, with the appearance of an angel. This stranger was standing beneath an oak tree, praying devoutly and with much shedding of tears. The boy, seeing him, humbly made a low obeisance, and awaited the end of his prayers. 143:, he called him to his side, blessed him, bestowed on him a kiss in the name of Christ, and asked: "What art thou seeking, or what dost thou want, child?" The boy answered, "My soul desires above all things to understand the 154:, saying to him: "Take this in thy mouth, child, and eat; this is given thee as a sign of God's grace and for the understanding of Holy Scriptures. Though the gift appears but small, the taste thereof is very sweet." 189:, continued to work actively. One day he felt dizzy, he stumbled (he stood on a small stool), fell and injured the canvas. It was impossible to continue the work, he needed a new canvas, which finally was brought. 200:
I won't be the one who lives. "Youth Bartholomew" will. If in thirty, in fifty years after my death, he will still be telling people something - that means he is alive, which means, I am alive.
202:Жить буду не я. Жить будет «Отрок Варфоломей». Вот если через тридцать, через пятьдесят лет после моей смерти он ещё будет что-то говорить людям — значит, он живой, значит, жив и я 196:
for his gallery. Until the end of his life, the artist was convinced that "The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew" remained his best work. In old age, the artist used to say:
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Taking out from his satchel, as if it were some treasure, with three fingers, he handed to the boy what appeared to be a little bit of white wheaten bread
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The painting, which caused the most contradictory opinions, became a sensation at the XVIII Peredvizhniki exhibition and was bought by
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The venerable monk, when he had ended his prayers, glanced at the boy and, conscious that he beheld the chosen vessel of the
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From that time on Bartholomew could read and write, became a monk, and adopted the name of Sergius.
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One day his father sent him to look for a lost foal. On his way he met a monk, a venerable
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The artist did his sketches of landscapes in 1899 in the vicinity of the
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160 cm × 211 cm (63 in × 83 in)
268:"Life of our Venerable Father amongst the Saints St Sergius of Radonezh" 124:. The painting illustrates an episode from "The Life of St. Sergius" by 267: 173:. Abramtzevo became one of his favourite places. There he finished the 133: 210:
in 2007 for $ 4.3 million (equivalent to $ 6.3 million in 2023).
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A later version of the painting, dating from 1922, was sold at
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Mikhail Nesterov
Oil on canvas
State Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow
Russian
Mikhail Nesterov
Sergius of Radonezh
Russian Symbolist
Tretyakov Gallery
Russian people
Epiphanius the Wise
elder
Holy Spirit
Holy Scriptures
prosphora
Trinity Sergius Lavra
Abramtsevo
Radonezh
landscape
Ufa
Peredvizhniki exhibition
flu
Pavel Tretyakov
Sotheby's
List of paintings by Mikhail Nesterov


"(#353) Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov"
"Life of our Venerable Father amongst the Saints St Sergius of Radonezh"

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