Biography. Young genius Nadia Rusheva Pictures and illustrations Nadi Rusheva

Nadia Rushevnever studied a drawing nor chart. She just took the paper and started to throw some contours. Never did sketches - Drew immediately "score." And he did not use the washing rubber - if the artist did not like something, she threw the sheet and started again - another drawing. "I see them in advance. They appear on paper, like watermarks, and I have anything to circle them, "the artist said.

Such drawings are quick, verified, clear - she left twelve thousand. It's six times more than everything creative heritage Claude Monet. Although the life of self-taught Nadi Rusheva was six times shorter. The young artist did not even have time to complete the school - at 17 she died of a gap of congenital aneurysm of the brain and hemorrhage vessel.

Little artist

Up to seven years, parents did not teach the girl to read or write, nor draw - as her mother said, they did not want to rush the child. But in the evenings dad, artist Nikolay Rushev, often read the daughter out loud fairy tales. And Nadya, until he listened, made some sketches. Once, while Dad read the "Pushkin fairy tale about Tsar Saltan", the girl managed to draw 36 illustrations.

Figure Nadi Rusheva "N. N. Pushkin with children. " From the "Pushkinian" cycle. Pen. 1966. Reproduction. Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Vdovin

Once Nikolay Rushev showed the drawings of his daughter to work colleagues. Those confirmed: the girl is talent. And in 1964 the first exhibition Nadi was held - she was then 12. Not everyone perceived the girl seriously - what life experience can be the fifth-grader? And she did not receive art education. And Rusheva simply continued to lead his usual way of life - went to school, like any normal Soviet child, worried about marks, read books and draw a lot.

Exhibition "Pushkinian Nadi Rusheva", dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of A. S. Pushkin. Mom artist Natalia Rusheva at the opening of the exhibition, 1999. Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Vyatkin

Over the next five years all over the world, 15 Personal exhibitions Nadi Rusheva take place: in Poland, Czechoslovakia, India, Romania. Nadia is interested in the myths of ancient Greece, and Pushkin works - at 13 she creates a series of drawings to Evgeny Onegin. Despite the fact that the illuminations are very simple - often it's just some lines and contours without tinting or strokes, "there are many dynamics and life in them. As said sculptor Vasily Vatagin: "Her drawings go far beyond children's creativity, but among adult artists hardly, many may argue with the ease of its technology, a sense of composition, with the sharpness of her images, with its creative perception of the world." Same, Nadia always dreamed of becoming a multiplier.

"Providence Nadi"

Somehow friends gave Nature to read "Masters and Margarita". As the artist's father wrote in the diary: "Naduzhev suddenly transformed and matured! .. She put off all the other dreams and a series of drawings, fell asleep me to get everything you can, about Bulgakov And somehow immediately and junk began to create his swan song "Master and Margarita". " After years later, Mikhail Bulgakov widow will see the illustration of the illustration and call them the best - but the artist will not be alive by that time.

After the death of Rushevoy Elena Sergeevna invited her father to visit. He brought with him two folders of Nadi drawings. Taking into the hands the first sheet, the widow of the Bulgakov minute was silent. And all those present with surprise translated from the Rushevsky heroine on Elena Sergeevna and back.

RIA Novosti / Vladimir Vdovin

Then the Father of the artist did not know that the writer's wife is that the most Margarita. To know this could not and Nadia. However, her Margarita was almost a copy of Elena Bulgakova. And the masters on the finger was blocked by a massive ring with a stone - the same was the same for the writer himself.

Reproduction of Figure Nadi Rusheva to the last scene of the novel M. Bulgakov "Master and Margarita". (1968. 16 years). Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Vdovin

"It's good that Nadia and the candle drawn ... Mikhail Afanasyevich loved to work with candlelight ..." Elena Bulgakov said, lush drawings. And when it reached the portrait of the Master and Margarita in the profile, it silent for a long time. "Overall mouth ... characteristic of Mikhail Afanasyevich ... as if he sighed ... This is Nadi Providence."

Rusheva became the first illustrator of the "Master and Margarita". She was at that time 15.

Said and unstable

In German art historical textbooks, Rusheva linear graphics take practically for the standard. There is not a similar feature on its drawings, but in every work the artist virtuoso passed emotions - often with just a few lines.

At the same time, the Rushevsky illustrations are children directly. So, next to the "serious" drawings of Hercules or Apollo with a Daphne, you can see a funny series of "Sirens". Sirens nadins are not terrible at all - rather, merry and playful. And its centaurs look more like a ballerin - in some pictures they even walt.

By the way, the ballet was also interested in the artist. Somehow she portrayed the ballet "Anna Karenina," but did not have time to see him. Nadia died a few years before the composer Rodion Shchedrin Posted by "Anna Karenina", and Maya Plisetskaya Performed a major role there.

No one could assume that at the age of 17, the artist will take away from life. As going to school in the morning, she just lost consciousness. Doctors fought for five hours for her life, but she did not come into consciousness.

The grave of Nadi Rusheva and her father Nikolai Konstantinovich on the Pokrovsky cemetery. Photo: COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORG / MITRIUS

In Tuvinski, the name "Nadedan" (and Nadya half tuvinka) means "forever living". And the memory of the self-taught artist, which never became a multiplier, is still alive - about 160 of its exhibitions passed in the world. And from the grave monument, Nadi Rusheva looks at this world a centaurian - an unusual child with a very serious look.

In the State Museum, A. S. Pushkin in Moscow opened an exhibition of drawings Nadi Rusheva "I live the life of those who draw ..."

Text: Dmitry Shevarov
Photo: Nadia Rusheva / ru.wikipedia.org

January 31. The ingenious artist would have been 65 years old.
For the first time, her peers, readers of the Pioneer Pravda learned about the 11-year-old girl-artist. Then, in December 1963, Nadya illustrated for the newspaper the story of the Polish writer. In 1964 - the first personal exhibition in the editorial office of the journal "Youth". Soon - exhibitions in Warsaw and Leningrad, an invitation to the "Blue Spark" ...
And at the same time - the life of the usual schoolgirl, experiences because of the bodies in mathematics and its modest appearance, passion for skiing and dancing, the songs of "Beatles" and Mirey Mathieu ...
There is nothing accident that Nadino dating has revealed in the 1960s, in the "Century of the HTR", as they talked. People, so passionately believed in technical progress, by virtue of physics and mathematics, suddenly a phenomenon was sent, as beautiful as the incomprehensible science.
Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev wrote about Naidu soon after her sudden care: "The brilliant girl had a striking gift of penetration in the field of the human spirit ... This is a riddle that will never be solved."
A teenage girl who did not receive any systematic artistic education, painted with ease and tirelessness of the Titans of Renaissance. It created many illustrative series to the most complex works of Russian and world classics.
The words "nugget" or "Wunderkind" were not suitable here, since Nadin the artistic world was intelligent and self-sufficient. Academicians of painting were bred by their hands: they did not know what could be taught this girl.
As difficult and unauthorized by simple estimates, any era. The bulldozers still cracked the temples, and somewhere nearby many thousands of items at the exhibition Nadi Rusheva, for the long-awaited meeting with a certain gift of God.
In our family since the beginning of the 1970s, prospectuses with postathous exhibitions Nadi are kept carefully. Actually, the avenues of only three, but in these modest evidence, you can imagine the atmosphere of exhibitions, and their geography:
"Figure Exhibition Nadi Rusheva in the Sverdlovsk Art Gallery. Opening will take place on August 17, 1972 at 16.00 ";
"The Tyumen Regional Art Gallery invites you to the exhibition drawings Nadi Rusheva. The exhibition presents about its 400 works on the themes of the works of A. S. Pushkin, L. N. Tolstoy, V. Shakespeare, M. Bulgakov ... ";
"Omsk Museum of Fine Arts. May 1973. Figures Nadi Rusheva ... "
In the 1970s, Nadin's exhibition drove through the whole country and the inhabitants of almost one hundred fifty cities were able to touch her work.
In the last month of life, Nadya participated in the filming of the documentary film. Thanks to this, a very short black and white film, we have happiness to see Nadia. Here is her lonely slender figure on the Alley in the winter summer garden, under the February snow, here it is a reverently listening to a guide in Pushkin's apartment on a sink ...

When the film was released on the screens, the newspaper "Soviet cinema" wrote (June 7, 1969): "There was no need for a" hidden camera ". The young heroine of the film - Nadia Rusheva did not pay any attention to either on the director or on the operator. A girl with smart insightful eyes over squares of glasses in a dark frame, with a pretty, slightly shy smile, greedily peered into the streets and houses of Leningrad, sometimes reflected out loud. And then, for the scenes, her quiet voice was heard. Simple speech, natural intonation ... "
From the last nadine interview: "... And now I will tell a dream. Once dreamed, very funny, funny. I somehow read the literature of Tourist, there: a journey in Italy, about Venice ... And so I dreamed of a dream on this basis. As if our monthly cool cleaning passes: the girls came out there, the buckets are with water, soap, rags. In general, work is in full swing. And the work takes place on the ladder of the giants, which is in Venice ... Well, it doesn't hit us at all, and we continue to clean: clean dust, scraper these huge steps ... "
After the departure, Nadi left about twelve thousand graphic works, a lot of drawings in the albums of friends, in the fields of letters, diaries and notebooks. What is the fate of this huge artistic heritage?
According to experts, many works of Nadi urgently need the help of restorers: once the drawings were pasted on the carton with the usual stationery glue, the cardboard was twisted, the paper wish. Look at it bitterly. As one of the favorite Nades of Japanese poets wrote:
Piercing color
Sad autumn wind ...
The heritage of Rusheva is mainly on state storage, in safe hands. And theoretically in the three cities of Russia - Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kyzyl) you can see the work of Nadi Rusheva. But with all this, it does not leave the feeling that the nadino creativity is forgotten. In any case, it is almost unknown to the current children and adolescents. But even recently in our country, any heart responded to the Password "Nadia Rusheva" ...
The harmony of the nadine drawings achieved by the most complicated means, and the technique of execution (mascara and feather), were so close to the Japanese classical aesthetics that the Japanese still remember Nadia, publish her drawings on postcards. One of these postcards published in Japan once gave me a senior researcher of the Pushkin Museum of Eugene Aleksandrovna Rapoport, a lot of strength gave the description and preservation of nadine drawings.
Arriving to us, the Japanese are surprised that in Russia there is no Rushevsky Museum Center that the work of Nadi lie in the storey, and most of the young people did not hear anything about Rusheva. "This is your Mozart in Fine Arts!" - They say the Japanese and shrug out are intensely: they say, how are these Russians rich in talents that they can afford to forget even about their geniuses.
Nadia also stretched to Japanese culture. At the end of 1967, during a trip to Leningrad, she saw a collection of Japanese poetry in the bookstore and immediately read. I could not buy a book - obviously, I didn't have enough money. When Nadya returned to Moscow and sat for a letter to the boy Alik, with whom he met in the "Artek", then tried to remember the lines like it:
"... One of the five-hundredth seems to be:
I sit alone
On the desert island.
And without wiping the wet eye
I play with a small crab.
... You can make wonderful drawings ... Themes are inexhaustible. Well, how? If you know such a little book, I ask, rewrite for me a few poems ... "
I found it five hundred. It belongs to the Japanese poet of the beginning of the twentieth century Ishikawa Takubokoku and sounds like this:

On the sandy white shore
Oral
In the eastern ocean
I, without sneaking wet eyes,
With little play crab.

For some reason, now I see that it is Nadia sits on a sandy white shore and plays with a small crab. As if it painted it myself Nadia: Islet, a figure of a girl, a grinding crawling over the white shore of the paper.
Perhaps, then, in winter, in the attachment of a bookstore, "Artek" was remembered behind the sits of the Japanese poet, the last evening by the sea.
"... On the last evening by the sea, I seem to jumble. Are you angry at me? And do not laugh? .. "
In the "Artek" there was something from Paradise. And paradise, it seems to me, something like "Artek" ... This comparison seems to you strange, and even stupid? Well, we are all children of their time. We are growing up, reassess your actions, repent, become wiser and make new nonsense. We change cool. But my childhood is not able to change. It will forever remain Octop and Pioneer. And in this, if you think about, there is fishery, and lesson, and happiness.
... you are not angry? And do not laugh?

Nadezhda Rusheva. Milestones of life

Nadia was born on January 31, 1952 in Ulan Bator (Mongolia). Father Nikolai Konstantinovich Rushev - theater artist. Mom Natalia Doydalovna Azikmaaa - Balletmaster.
Summer 1952 - moving to Moscow. From this time until 1966, the Rushev family lives near the Don Monastery. The territory of the monastery is the place of first walks Nadi.
1959 - in one evening I painted 36 illustrations to the "Tale of Tsar Saltan" Pushkin;
May is the first trip with parents to Leningrad, visit the Hermitage.
1962 - Exactly acquainted with the sculptor and schedule, Academician Vasily Alekseevich Vatagin, rearranged in friendly. He advised his parents not to give daughter to an art school: "For unusual talents, unusual pedagogical installations are needed ... she has a stupid heart. She does not repeat life, but recreates it ... "
1963
December - Pictures of 11-year-old Nadi to the work of the Polish writer Tadeusch Unevich are published in four rooms "Pioneer truth"
1964
- This year Nadya begins to work on illustrations to "War and Mire";
May is the first exhibition organized by the editors of the journal "Youth";
June is the first publication of nadine drawings in the journal "Youth", (illustrations for the story of E. Pashneva "Newtono Apple")
1966
February - a trip to Warsaw to open a personal exhibition
1967
January - I got a diary, joined the Komsomol. "Dear Nadia," Boris Polevoy wrote to her in connection with this event, the then editor of the journal "Youth," - I congratulate you ... Be a good Komsomol. Old Komsomolets B. Field ";
January-March - exhibition in the foyer of the theater on Taganka;
April-May - the exhibition in the CDRI;
June is a trip to Artek. "My life," wrote then Nadia, "is divided into two stages: Before the trip to" Artek "and after ..."
September - organized in the classroom club of young friends of art;
Father's trip to the Borodino field


1968
All year - work on illustrations to "Master and Margarita" M. A. Bulgakova
1st of January - The first day of the trip with the classroom in Leningrad;
January 6 - a visit to Pushkin;
February - Nadia works for the first time in the etching technique
June 1st - Opening of the exhibition of drawings to "War and Mire" in the State Museum of L. N. Tolstoy in Moscow. At the opening of art historian.
June 8 - Nadia in Leningrad, opening the exhibition "Pushkinian" in the Museum-Apartment A. S. Pushkin on washing
30 June - a trip with his father in Ostafievo and Sukhanovo;
July - a trip with his father to the Large Vyazemy and Zakharovo, then in Gorky;
August - Design of screensavers for TSSplkact
24 August - A trip to Tarusu to V. A. Vatagin, discussion of illustrations to "Master and Margarita". The old master spoke Nadya: "I was careful how you would understand the image of Yeshua, because for a hundred years, Russian artists for Christ are not taken ... Interrogations, torture, the cross of the cross, execution ... Yes, it is ... Calf, horror, Duchot ... Two Crosses and Third - for our back? So there was no ... bravely. Everything shakes. How did it happen to you? .. "
1969
February 28 - March 4 - A trip to Leningrad, participation in the filming of the documentary "You, as the first love ..." (director I. Kalinina, Operator Y. Nikolaev, Writer M. Litvyakov). Now this movie can
February 29. - Nadia comes to the Russian Museum in his favorite halls - the ancient Russian icons and V. Serov
March, 6 Earth's life Nadi cut off. She just turned seventeen years old. One of its last works is called "Martyrs and Angels."
The artist is buried on the Pokrovsky cemetery at the first plot.

Nadi Rusheva's name is School No. 470 (not far from the metro station "Cantemirovskaya"), where she studied. The school has a museum of her life and creativity.
October 21 1982 The year of Crimean Astronomer L. G. Karachina opened a small planet No. 3516, which was named after Nadi - 3516 Rushev.
In the Caucasus, there is a pass of Nadi Rusheva.

There are:
In the State Museum A. S. Pushkin in Moscow,
In the Pushkin House of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg,
Lion Museum Tolstoy in Moscow,
At the National Museum named after Aldan-Madir of the Republic of Tyva in Kyzyl.

"I now look at everything differently ..."

From the letters of Nadi Rusheva, Oleg (Alika) Safaralyyev. From Moscow to Baku.

Nov. 1 1967.
Hello, Alik! Thank you for your letter!
We have a refrigerator, and I got sick. Thank God, did not go to school two days. Terribly tired. The last degree of ablation.
Recently went to the center, I watched some kind of movie in the "world", and from there on foot to the "Children's World" and to the Kremlin. Moscow is decorated for the holiday. Many build. Healthy! And on the Red Square what is happening !!! Miracle! Then he went to the hotel "Russia", four churches were restored there. They are now new.
I somehow spoke about the "war and the world." Now I continue this series and going to go to the Borodino field.
Watched in the theater them. Mayakovsky "MEDEY". When she chokely shouted, they ran out two mimes with a huge roaring mask. From the actors just like the heroine.
The sixth number we will have a cool evening. Then after I will write. I do not think it will be interesting.
Write long letters.
Nadia Rusheva.
P. S. Do you like Prince Andrei?
Write your opinion about the novel and the film. What do you think Natasha? Pierre? Did you receive a letter with "Running Waves"?

January 12. 1968.
Good you are my friend Alik!
+20! Yes, you crazy! This is grace! Lord, whatever I gave to be warmer, at least -15 °. If you were here, probably already died of cold.
So, from you to Baku 129 km, the cards lie (geographical). About 300 km on them. Incidentally, to Olga not 2,530 km ...
You get from the city to the city for 2 hours. And as well two hours before the Piano Pan, the food (Lenin Mountains) ...
On the way to Leningrad, an interesting case was. In the train "Youth" we sang four hours. Light was not, well, wonderfully! Some type sustained us from darkness. And great. He will post some song, and we picked up and sing. What was not: first Tourist, then dance, just like that, then folk, then the pioneers, they reached the operas and romances ... And he whistles and whistles. We never learned who it was.
And in Leningrad, in the Hermitage, we go and Aham. Divinely beautiful ...
On washing, 12, the guide was wonderful! (It was Natalia Naumovna Altvar. - D. Sh.) So told, straight from the soul, and in the most tears in the eyes. Yes…
I saw one interesting book of some Japanese poet. One of the five-hundredth seems to be:

I sit alone
On the desert island.
And without wiping the wet eye
I play with a small crab.

I could no longer.
But when I went out,
In the yard quietly roasted a horse.

You can make wonderful drawings to them. Themes are inexhaustible. Well, how? If you know such a little book, I am very pleased to rewrite for me a few poems.
Now about the play mark (Mark Kushnirov - Arthertovsky pioneer. - D. Sh.). She is about our press center "Artek-67". Naturally, it will be another camp and other guys, but we are the prototypes. More ... For the play, you need a conflict, and everything was smooth. It is so? Remember, in the press center, and not in the detachment.

But what nature is the conflict? Creative disorder? Envy? Or boy? I can not imagine anything. It is impossible ... After all, everything was fine!
Creative detachment ... Studesty. We are like one person. Envy ... and what to envy? What does someone have an eyelashes longer than another drawings or better? Nonsense!
The boy ... This could be introduced, but it is already a completely tra-ta. This is me talking on the basis of a conversation with marik and other conclusions.
Piece about us, 15-year-old guys. On 30 days, about friendship, different: strong, doomed, and from this even stronger. And about light, beautiful, but quickly forgetting. 30 days, just 30 days. And we are 15 years old ...
People think little, no responsibility, no one will punish. And the real friendship, serious, our ... Mark will write so that adults do not say: "... But they are still children."
Now about you. On the last evening by the sea, I seem to be drunk. Are you angry at me? And do not laugh? ..
Sometimes this comes to what you start to doubt the sincerity of what was. Is it all this? Did it time lived in deception?
Do such thoughts come to you? Or is all this nonsense horse horses? Do not consider it for something, but the boys here or did not grow or ... some kind of stupid, eccentrics.
So write about everything and about the past 1967. There are years of good and bad. And this one was severe. And the stronger the days of the artequa shine, and the rest seems more gloomy.
Write faster!
Nadia Rusheva.
Once again I wish you soon recovery and wait for the photo card.

February 29. 1968.
Hello, Alik!
Once again I answer some of your questions.
Heavy year. I do not force anyone to think the same.
If you remember everything, well, and great!
You yourself do not always answer my questions (for example, a questionnaire).
Do not pout!
I now look at everything differently. All that was then is a parting with childhood, and never will never have anything like that.
Enough sentimental!

On Monday to the class hour, someone drove the Vysotsky record. Wow, what was! Everything is so melted, and then they twisted "Bitles", they sing "somewhere there is a city ...". Miracle!
Dropped from the mountain "Barbuses of the forehead" broke skis, and the face is, as if "cats were taught on it"! Light dymer ... but nothing, got out, and flew great! Shaving flight! Specially then went and photographed the place where it was cracked (see photo).
In the class we have a scandal. Finally collapsed with KNN-like boys.
You know, Alca, I'm going to write a serious letter to everything, but everyone distracts, and there, you look, and thoughts scatter. The main thing, write more often and is not necessarily serious.
Pictures next time, and then I have a fun mood now. February 24 we had the evening. Nothing, they danced, beat and gathered. March 8 will again be the evening. Healthy! I dance what we were taught in "Artek".
Started "War and Peace". Yesterday she wrote an essay on the topic "The feat of Captain Tushina on the Shenagraben field and Prince Andrew with Austerlice." Tushin is dear, and I do not like Prince Andrei, especially after the film. Bile aristocrat, harmful, cruel to stupidity.
You, of course, saw the drawings of Schmarinov to "War and the World". Write your opinion. I like them very much.
If the 1st number of the "horizon" was not listened, lost much. I lose it every day. Mirey Mathieu, Gerdt, Joan Baez, Mina, "Accord". Yu-Liu! Para Pa Para
Write. Waiting.
Nadia Rushev

March 4. 1968.
Hello, Alik!
The first month of spring. Sun!..
Have you ever reread my letters? If so, you can make an interesting output. As with your letters ... There are fun and sad, heavy no.
You, apparently, really really in childhood. And my concept is what is - not retreat. Everything happens not without our knowledge ...
With you nothing like that, apparently, does not happen. You will know later. Tosca will go green. But easier if there are friends. Write with whom you are friends there ...
In the class, we are now very difficult. Difficult. But they still managed to stir up ...
About the "great" artist ... well that you. Where there. Ah, Alka, Alka! Funny you, nice boy! Came, for God's sake, his photo card ...
Write. Waiting.
Nadia Rushev

May 11. 1968.
Hello, Alik!
Received your letter. With the questionnaire ... Thank you. Okay.
I answered the letter, just I do not remember, sent or not. I answer the questionnaire. Also very foggy.
The advantages that you most appreciate in humans? Kindness, humanity, immediacy.
Distinctive feature? CREDULITY.
View of happiness? FRIENDSHIP.
On misfortune? Loneliness (i.e. there is no friend).
Antipathy? Mathematics, physics, chemistry and several boys.
Favourite hobby? Running in books, draw, chat with friends.
Favorite poet? Mayakovsky, Evtushenko, Pushkin.
Proser? L. Tolstoy.
Hero? Pierre Duhov, a little prince.
Heroine? Natasha Rostov.
Color? Red, black, purple.
Name? Alexander, Natasha, Olga.
Dish? ICE CREAM.
Execution? All sorts of proverbs like: "without difficulty caught and fish out of the pond," and so on.
Motto? So far: "Forward, breaking and guessing." (E. Evtushenko).
Life proceeds without adventure, not what. Until!
Nadia Rusheva.

November 1968.
Hello, Alik!
At school, almost everything, as usual ...
In general, this month, October, was some kind of craving and a little crazy. Mark did not see for a long time. That could not, then I. It was no time to draw, one of the fade - read (Mobi Dick Melville, Jack London, bitter ...). Almost no one wrote. Did not go anywhere.
Yesterday began winter. Today, skiing ride. Something, I'll think that winter will be for several months, so much so it becomes so. And less than two months ago it was summer! There will never be such a summer anymore.
A year leap ... We have died many relatives and acquaintances.
Nov. 1 I was on Vernisazh N. Zhukov. There I got acquainted with A. I. Hesse ... Perhaps I will draw illustrations to his new book. If everything comes out, this work will be of great importance for me ... This work is not an ambulance, by April next year. Until! Waiting for you to write.
N. Rusheva.

Outly Rusheva spoke - a brilliant girl. Her drawings as a sip of fresh air, real, open, penetrating into the deepest of the human soul.

Childhood and youth

Nydan Nikolaevna Rusheva was born in 1952, January 31. In the girl Tuvinian roots, from here an unusual name. Nadedan from Tuvinsky - "forever live."

The family of the Soviet artist Nikolai Konstantinovich Rusheva lived in Ulan-Bator (Mongolia) since 1950. After the birth of a child, they moved to Moscow, where his father got a job as an artist on central television, and Mother Natalya Azhikmaa (once ballerina) dedicated time to raising her daughter. Biography Nadi from childhood is associated with art. The first impressive drawings appeared when the girl was five years old.

Creation

In the first grade Nadia no longer parted with a pencil. After studying, the artist dedicated a lot of time art. At seven years, the girl drew illustrations for the work of the "Tale of Tsar Saltan". During the evening, 36 drawings appeared, until the father read a fairy tale out loud.

Later, having mastered reading, the artist illustrated the "copper rider", "Tale of Belkin" and "Eugene Onegin". Over the years, except for a graphite pencil, Nadia learned to work with pen, feltster, pastel. In the spring of 1964, Youth Journal organized a debut exhibition for a beginner artist, then published some of the works.

It is known that at the request of Pushkinist A. I. Hesse Nadia worked on illustrations to his book "The Life of the Poet". Rushev reacted with interest and responsibility: read the works of famous literary crit works, looked into the memorial apartment of the poet. The goose pen Nadia carefully removed the paintings, but Hesse did not impress one.

As a result, the book was released without drawings of the artist, and the illustrations (about 300) after the death of the Rusheva are stored in museums.

At 12, behind the brilliant Nadi had a rich artistic experience. Creativity numbered more than five thousand drawings of different styles and different from each other. The exhibitions were not limited to regional scale: the works of Rusheva visited Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, India. In 1965, the Judy Magazine published illustrations for the story of Edward Pashneva "Newtono Apple".

It is known that Rusheva did not draw sketches, and in her instruments for creativity there would never be elasty. The paintings were born easily, the images flooded in the head, and could not be mistakes: Nadia just worked. The girl wrote illustrations to the myths of ancient Greece ("Feats of Hercules"), moved the images of the images of the heroes "Odyssey" and "Illiad".

One of the favorite works of Nadi was the ballet "Anna Karenina". The artist portrayed elegant ballerinas, but did not have time to see the beauty of the ballerina on the stage.

The talent of the young artist is a natural gift. Father decided not to determine the girl to the art school, the drawing of Nadia did not study anywhere. Rusheva illustrated "War and Peace", "Master and Margarita". Contemporaries saw in her a brilliant book schedule.

In school, Nadia played in the KVN team, decorated the wall newspaper. With parents often walked into theaters and museums.

Planned to draw illustrations to ,. Native remember that the girl dreamed of becoming a multiplier.

Elena Sergeyevna Bulgakov adopted illustrations for Master and Margarita with delight. The widow of the writer told that Nadya became the first artist who managed to reveal the image with accuracy.

Personal life

A separate string in the life of Nadi Rusheva is considered 30 days in the Artek camp in 1967. Fifteen-year-old girl and there managed to leave the drawings, which are now stored in museums. Nadia painted the wall newspaper and did not cease to create for the soul.

With the consent of Natalia Azhikmaa, the correspondence of the artist with a friend from ARTEC (Oleg Safaralyyev) was published for a long time ago. It was a communion of two fifteen-year-old teenagers, just entering adult life, reflections on the future, about humanity. Nadia occasionally told about the successes in the work and school weekdays. Now the Safaralyeva film director is kept letters and many illustrations to them.

Death

Nadia Rusheva suddenly died for everyone when she turned 17 years old. Shortly before to get away from life, a young artist with his father at the invitation of Lenfilm visited Leningrad. Film studio removed the tape "You, as the first love" about the talent of Rusheva. Shooting remained unfinished.

On March 6, 1969, Nadia was going to leave home for study. The state of the girl has deteriorated sharply, she lost consciousness. Nearby was Nikolai Konstantinovich, who caused ambulance car. Rushev was urgently hospitalized, but they could not save. The cause of death has become congenital aneurysm of the brain vessel.

About the disease of the daughter until the parents were suspected until death. Undeside at that time treatment did not succumb. According to medical workers, 17 years old with such a problem is a long time. Nadia buried on the Pokrovsky cemetery. At the monument was depicted "Centales", drawn by the young artist.

"CentaVrennok" also became the basis for the prizes of the Golden Centaur festivals and "Silver Centaur". Since 2003, a monument based on the drawing has been established in St. Petersburg. He is in front of the "Movie House".

The school in which Nadia studied was a museum dedicated to the artist's work. In honor of Nadi Rusheva in the Caucasus called the pass. In 1973, Dramaturgorg Anna Rodionova dedicated to the artist's play "Nadia Girl".

Despite the short life, Rusheva left about 12,000 drawings. Many work stored familiar and friends of Naidan. Today, you can touch the girls in museums ("Lion Tolstoy" in Moscow, "name Nadi Rusheva" in Kyzyl, as well as in St. Petersburg and the city of Sarov).

Nikolai Konstantinovich Rushev, until the end of his life, gathered the memory of the deceased daughter, was engaged in the organization of exhibitions, and also wrote the work "Last Year Nadi", using the notes of the artist.

Father Nadi died of cancer in 1975 and was buried next to Nadi. Materials from the "last year Nadi" with the consent of the mother first published the newspaper "Asia Center". Creativity and life of the mysterious eternally young artist study researchers and admirers of creativity.

There is a lot of people whose talent opens in early childhood. However, not all of them become famous and receive world glory. Many remain no one who is not known to the geniuses that are forced to keep their pathetic existence. But there are also such personalities that, on the contrary, at the peak of their popularity, go away from life. It is to them and the Nadia Rushev belongs. This is a small 17-year-old artist with tragic and at the same time happy fate, about which we will tell in our article.

Birth, adolescence and young artist

Talking about the forever young 17-year-old girl, which was prepared as short, but very bright fate, it is possible only positive. She is a little sun, which caused only delight during life. Nadezhda was born on January 31 in 1952 in the family of a talented master of fine art of Rusheva Nikolai Konstantinovich and the first Tuvinian ballerina Natalia Doydalovna Azikmaa-Rusheva. However, Nadyusha grew not quite ordinary child.

Inexplicable drawing to drawing

The tendency to drawing the girl appeared in early childhood. Another five years later, the father of the baby began to notice one interesting feature: as soon as he began to read the fairy tales, his daughter immediately threw out, ran somewhere and returned with a pencil and paper. Then she sat down near, carefully listened to the father's voice and diligently something drawl on paper. That's so little on Nadia Rushev began to draw.

School and drawing

Parents loved Nadu very much, so they tried to "do not score the child's head" with accurate and humanitarian sciences. They did not specifically learn to write it or read. When the baby was seven years old, she was given to study at school. So hope for the first time began to master sciences, learn to write, read and count. Despite its fatigue and workload within the framework of the school program, the girl still found the time and half an hour a day after the lessons took on drawing.

I did not dry out over the years and the interest of the artist by Russian fairy tales, myths and the legends of ancient Greece, biblical parables. At this age, Nadia Rushev continued to combine his favorite occupation, drawing, with listening to evening fairy tales performed by Pope.

First record for the number of pictures

Once Nadia, as usual, sat and listened to Pope, who read "Tale of Tsar Saltan" by A.S. Pushkin and traditionally made outline. When the curiosity of Nikolai Konstantinovich took the top, and he decided to see what the girl draws there, there was no limit to his surprise. As it turned out, during reading a fairy tale, Nadyusha created as many as 36 pictures corresponding to the subject of the work. These were wonderful illustrations, the simplicity of whose lines hit the imagination.

What features Figures Nadi Rusheva

The main feature of the painting Rusheva was that during his young career a girl never made sketches and did not use an eraser for a pencil. The artist Nadia Rusheva preferred to create his masterpieces from the first time. And if at the same time she did not succeed, or did not suit her the result, she simply squeezed, threw the picture and started first.

According to the youngest dating, she heard or read some story, took a sheet of paper and already mentally saw what image to draw it.

Nadia Rusheva (biography): adult recognition

First exhibition and first life experience

The efforts of the Soviet artist Rusheva Nikolai Konstantinovich were not in vain. When hope was 12 years old, it was organized by its very first personal exhibition. How many joys and positive emotions brought a five-grader that dreams of becoming a famous multiplier!

And although many critics with alertness and some distrust reacted to the schoolgirl, behind which there was no diploma about the end of a specialized artistic school and great life experience, it did not pushed, but, on the contrary, it became a certain incentive for the artist. Nadia Rusheva (a photo can be seen above) did not leave his hobby, but continued to develop and improve their abilities.

However, along with unexpectedly stunned popularity in the life of the girl practically no change has happened. She still continued to go to school and learn, walk with girlfriends, read and draw a lot.

Creating a new series of illustrations

At 13, Nadia Rushev created a new series of pictures, which are illustrations for the work of Evgeny Onegin. Surprisingly to all relatives, friends and acquaintances, a teenager girl managed to combine two incredible things: not only to display people corresponding to a certain historical era, but even convey their mood.

Pictures - this is a ray of hope

Pictures of Hope Rusheva are ordinary pencil or watercolor sketches, which are a set of contours and lines. As a rule, they almost completely absent hatching and toning.

According to the famous sculptor Vasily Vatagina, painted Nadia Rusheva Pictures with simple lines. However, they were performed in such a light technique that many experienced, adult painters could envy this skill.

If we talk about the characters of the artist, they are so thoroughly chosen and drawn that, looking at them, just the diva is given. Her mythical characters are not angry at all. On the contrary, they are kind and designed to call only positive emotions.

According to the Pope of the girl, she was well able to capture the mood of the authors who wrote this or that work, as well as transfer it to paper. Centaurs, mermaids, gods and goddesses, the characters from the Bible and fairy tales seemed to come to life under the pencil talented artist. It is a pity that Nadia Rusheva went out early. Death overtook her at such a young age. Learn more about how it happened, we will tell below.

Exhibitions and New Girl Achievements

Over the next five years, many publishers are interested in hopes, as well as representative offices of the arts. During this period, 15 new exhibitions of the works of the young artist took place. They successfully took place in Poland, Romania, India, Czechoslovakia and other countries of the world. Among the pictures of Nadui were illustrations for the ancient Greek myths and legends, to fairy tales and works of Soviet poets and prose.

The work of Bulgakov in the creative life of hope

A special stroke on the life path of hope was a number of illustrations made by her during the reading of such a sign work of Bulgakov as "Master and Margarita". At that time, the girl was just 15 years old.

For those who do not own information, the main characters of this novel are bright prototypes of the author and his beautiful spouse. Even without guessing this, Nadia Rushev was intuitively felt this similarity and did everything possible in order to transfer his thoughts on paper.

Extraordinary traction to ballet

Few people know that, in addition to literary works, the artist was also interested in ballet. Little hope often happened on my mother's rehearsals and admired her grace during the performance. Once the hope even managed to draw an illustration for the ballet "Anna Karenina", and long before the music was written to this work.

Choosing Bulgakov

When the author of the Roman who was survived today saw nadin illustrations, he was amazed. Therefore, he immediately decided to use them as spectacular illustrations for the book. So the young artist became the first fifteen-year-old author, who was officially allowed to illustrate the novel. Later, she illustrated and the novel "War and Peace" L. Tolstoy.

Unexpected Cum

No one could even think that it was so fast and suddenly leave this world Nadia Rushev. The cause of her death, according to official data, is a gap of one of the vessels with subsequent hemorrhage to the brain.

"Everything happened suddenly, the father of the girl shared his impressions. - Early in the morning hope, as usual, going to school, suddenly she felt bad and lost consciousness. Doctors fought for more than five hours for her life, but they still failed to save her. "

And although the parents of the girls did not want to lose hope, the news of the death of their daughter finally knocked them out of the rut. Father and mother for a long time could not believe that their sun was no longer there. That's how I left the life of Nadya Rusheva. The cause of death is congenital aneurysm.

From the date of the death of a talented artist, a long time has passed, but even today the memory of it is alive in the hearts of the connoisseurs of her work and other artists.

About the brilliant girl, who was never destined to become an adult - Nadu Rusheva.

"Nadia, Pushkin, Sirenski, etc.".

Nadia Rusheva, in my opinion, is an emergency phenomenon in the art's fine art.

Talk about her joyfully and bitter: joyfully because, looking at the drawings, nadi, speaking of them, it is impossible not to feel at the high wave of a big holiday, do not feel good excitement; And bitter because Nadi itself is no longer with us.

Nadia died in seventeen years. So little agreed on this light, she left a huge artistic heritage - ten thousand drawings fantasies.

Talent generous, and this generosity of the soul, this is the desire to spend your spiritual wealth without regard, to give people all of themselves without a residue - undoubtedly, one of the first signs, the original property of true talent.

But it goes without saying that we judge the power of the talent not only by the number of made. It is not only important how many pictures before us, but also what pictures.

I was four times at the exhibitions of students of the usual Moscow school Nadi Rusheva, and with each new acquaintance with her drawings they were more captured, conquered and pleased.

Nadines drawings are a huge, diverse, rich world of images, feelings, ideas, interests. In her drawings today, both the historical past of the country, and the myths of Ellinov, and modern Poland, and fairy tales, and the pioneer of Artek, and the ancient world, and terrible Auschwitz, and the first days of the October Revolution.

Mother of the world - for peace.

Crying over the husk.

The manifold of the interests of the artist is amazing. She was before everything in the world. All it concerned.

But this latitude of artistic interests is not omnivorous. The selection apparatus, so important for the artist, acted in Nadi strictly and unmistakably. What did Nadia selected for themselves from the almost limitless wealth of human culture?

Nadya loved clean, high poetic myths of Ellinov. Many of her drawings are devoted to mythological motives, and among them are the earliest. An eight-year-old girl Nadia draws "Hercules's feats" - a cycle of one hundred small sketches.

Already in the early children's drawings, the future artist is bright, with his addictions, with his all-handed eye and an excellent flexible line, with his unmistakable sense of selection and elegant laconicism of the artistic language.

This is about the first drawings of the eight-year-old Nadi. But in front of me the last composition of the seventeen-year-old artist. And again the topic is a wonderful Hellenic fairy tale: "Apollo and Daphne". This small, approximately to the school notebook page, drawing - a truly masterpiece. The myth of the God of the Sun, Muses, Arts Apollo, who fell in love with the beautiful Nymph Daphne and rejected it, is one of the most poetic creatures of Greek mythology.

This victory is Nymphs over God, Daphne over Apollo and painted Nadia in its very tragic climax. Apollo, already overtaking Daphne, stretches his arms to grab his sacrifice, but the Daphne is already half not Daphne. From the live body, it is already arising Lavra branches. With the striking artistic resourcefulness, Nadia caught and selected the most difficult, most dramatic moment of myth. She depicts the most process of reincarnation of Daphne. She is still a person, but at the same time almost a tree: she has live human hands, and Lavra branches. Figure is amazingly scarot, accurately transparent. The line of elastic, fluid, completed in the first and only movement of the pen.

The Nadi line is always one and final. Nadia did not use a pencil, did not use the elastic band, did not have a painful drawing, did not occur the preliminary directions, did not conduct multiple linear options. The line is one, always final, and the material that Nadia worked, strictly corresponded to its amazing abilities of errorless improvisation. Mascara, Pen, Flomaster will not tolerate amendments and repeated attempts, namely, the mascara, feather and felt-tipper loved Nadia, occasionally hacked her drawings with pastels or watercolor.

Freckles. Seryozha Yesenin.

Schehherzade dance.

The error of the line in the nadine drawings is simply amazing. This is some kind of special, the highest gift, some kind of magic, miraculous power and property of the artist's hand, always correctly choosing the only direction, the only bend, the only thickness and smoothness of the line, which are necessary in each case. Confidence, loyalty hand Nadi incomprehensible.

Ophelia.

The composition of the nadin works is unquestionable, and every time, the composition of the nadin works is undispending. Here is a small drawing "Pir Caliguly". On a warm greenish background, three figures - a full-time Caligula and a blooming woman with him beside him, and in front of them on the stones - a black slave with a tray, tired feastful disorders and vessels with wine. How little is drawn and how much it says: these three figures and their positions in the Big Chared Hall, only a hint of this on the second plan, it turns out to be enough to create a feather atmosphere.

The composition of Adam and Eve is the same. In the picture, only two figures - Adam and Eve. Not a paradise nor tree with apples of knowledge of good and evil. Of the accompanying accessories - only snakes in the foreground and an apple. An apple is already torn: it is on Earth before Eva's eyes, who, cropped, greedily pulled his hand to grab it. This rude gesture of a woman eager to grab, know the forbidden, is inimitable expressive. Challennaya Eva Adam, who also soldered to Earth, as it would duplicate Eva's rapid movement. Picture Center: Eve, Apple, Eve Gesture. I called this composition a picture, not a picture, and this, in my opinion, is quite natural. This drawing is more than a drawing.

Unselected.

The affliction of funds, what a huge result is achieved, sometimes just amazes. Here is a drawing entitled "Auschwitz". There are no camp barns, nor barbed wire, no stoves crematorium. Only the face is one person, exhausted, exhausted, hidden, with the failed cheeks and huge, scary looking into the world through his eyes ... There are no details that would talk about terrible affairs, which fascists worked in a death camp, but all this is clearly seen in the exhausted Exhausted face with huge eyes in the Figure Nadi "Auschwitz".

So early ripening of the mind, feelings, hands, dating is impossible to determine, extinct the usual measures, ordinary categories, and I understand the Academician of Painting V. Vatagina, who speaking about the genius Nadi.

Nadia with an animal artist Vatagin.

I understand Heraclia Andronnikova, who after visiting the exhibition Nadi Rusheva wrote: "The fact that it created a genius girl becomes clear from the first drawing. They do not require evidence of their primaryness. "

The words "genius" and "primaryness" are very large words, they are terrible to pronounce in the appendix to the contemporary, and, moreover, another seventeen. But it seems to me that this is the measure, which is, and should measure a huge talent of nadium Rusheva.

Until now, I spoke more or less thorough about four nadine drawings: "Apollo and Daphne", "Pir Kaliguly", "Adam and Eve", "Auschwitz", but, in essence, each of her drawings deserves as much as A more detailed conversation. The thematic manifold and wealth of nadine creativity are almost endless. Which topics, reasons, it does not appear, this hot and greedily recovery soul!

Nadia insatically swallows books, and almost every of them gives rise to the whirlwind of thoughts and thirst to embody visibly, in the lines and paints the material of the read book, her heroes, her ideas and images.

She draws illustrations for K. Chukovsky and V.Stispir, L.Kassyl and F. Barla, A.Gaidar and E.Gofman, S. Marshaku and D. Bacronu, A. Grin and Ch.Dikkens, N.Nosovo and A. Duma, P. Roshov and M.Twenu, P. Bazhov and D. Selri, A.Bokuyev and F.Kuperu, I.Tureguev and Zh. Venna, B.Polevoy and M. Rota, L. Tolstoy and V.Guhugo, M. Bulgakov and E. Jinich, M.Lermontov and A. Sent-Exupery.

Little prince with rose.

Farewell to fox.

Pushkin is a special world of Nadi, its special addiction, special love. From Pushkin, perhaps everything began. Pushkin woke up having slept in a small eight-year-old noviere instinct of creativity. It was then, at the fifty-ninth year, for the first time having visited the parents in Leningrad, visiting the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the last apartment of the poet on washing 12, Nadya took the feather and feltster. Then it was precisely the first thirty-six drawings on the topics inspired by the "tale about Tsar Saltan."

With this, who became the heart of Nadi dear, the apartment on the washing began creative in Nae; Here and ended. Her last hike was made here for ten years.

Another day after visiting the apartment poet Nadya suddenly died. Three days before that, she visited Pushkin near Leningrad, in a lyceum, in the room, in which the Leader of Pushkin lived for six years.

Young Lyceumists Pushkin and Delvig.

Figures Nadi Rusheva brought us to Pushkin one more step. Working on these drawings, Nadia tried to be born not only in the image of the poet himself, but also to the atmosphere, he surrounded, in the Pushkin era, to see, feel, feel it - to imagine the victim of people of that time, the situation of them, things that were around them And in their hands. Customizing yourself on it, Nadia did drawings of the Pushkin cycle with a goose feather. She constantly fought these days with goose feathers, hesitated them, burned in the flame of candles, made countless sections of the pen on different from the grooves of the locations to achieve the definite, desired for the flexibility drawing of the pen.

Dad, let's play!

In the Pushkin cycle, Nadi obviously felt consonant with the manner of Pushkin drawing - light, relaxed, elegant, as if flying. But at the same time, Nadia remains Nadi and in these drawings. There is always a stronger layout, confident definition of lines, improvisational freedom of drawing.

Nadia first creates a series of lyceum drawings: several portraits of Pushkin-lyceist, his comrades in the lyceum. Under the pen Nadi, Kuhl arise, Delvig, Pushchin, genre scenes of the Lyceum life, lyceum friends visiting Sasha's Illness, the Bunch of Lyceums against the teacher-Klausenik Piletsky.

Kyhehelbecker.

But the artistic thirst and the desire to understand the world of the great poet in all its latitudes and manifold is entering into force. And then, after the Lyceum series, Pushkin and Kern drawings, Pushkin and Riznich, "Pushkin and Mitskevich" appear, "Pushkin and Bakunina", Farewell to Pushkin with children before death, Portrait of Natalia Nikolaevna, Natalia Nikolaevna with children at home and on walk.

The desire to expand the field of view, tirelessly deepen the chosen theme with which we met in the Pushkin cycle are generally characteristic of Nadi.

Master and Margarita in the jet of the developer.

In its last cycle dedicated to the novel by M. Bulgakov "Master and Margarita", Nadya performs the pilot of the topic. Roman M.Bulgakova is extremely difficult: it unites in one whole reality and fiction, story and satire.

Master is waiting for Margarita.

Nadia with brilliance overcame this difficulty to combine heterogeneous plans. And then, born into the image, she infinitely repeats the face of Margarita, for which she is looking for the most vivid incarnation.

Excellent means of embodiments and such diverse characters as a master, Yeshua, Pilate, Rat, Woland and his retinue.

Koroviev and Hippo.

The same non-residential search for the truth and expressiveness of the image we also see in the magnificent cycle dedicated to the "War and Mire". In an effort to present to us, Natasha Rostov in all its life completeness, Nadia draws her a teenager with a doll and a crumpled girl with a girl, filled with moonlight in front of an open window in Otradnaya, and loving, caring mother in the bed of a child.

Other characters of "War and Peace" are also revealed to us in nadine drawings in the entire variety of life interests, characters, destinies, aspirations, actions and mental movements. Extremely rich, multilateral lights by the artist of the material of the Great Roman: Pierre on the field of the Borodino battle, the salvation of a woman with a child, Kutuzov, chatting in filients with a six-year-old peasant girl Malaysha, the death of Plato Karataeva, the death of Petit Rostov, Nichushka Bolkonsky, dreaming about the exploits ...

Napoleon in retreat.

And one more, emergency comparison. In an effort to enter the image, give it in the whole life completeness, Nadia tries how much can approach him as it should be physically. Drawing Pushkin cycle, Nadia wanders in Pushkin places, visits the lyceum, goes to the place of the duel of Pushkin. Meashes ten steps across snow and, after making sure how terrible distances of the duelists, exclaims with pain and indignation: "This is the murder! After all, this rascal shot almost in the focus. " Then along the black river goes to the model and there it stands in front of the portrait of the poet, among things around him during his lifetime, as if absorbing the most atmosphere of this life, his thoughts, dreams of cases, his muses, the sound of his poems. During a walk in the Lyceum Garden, Nadia raises the twig from the track and suddenly begins to draw them in the snow Flying profile of a young Pushkin ...

The same happens in the process of working on other cycles, especially expensive artist. Drawing sheets of "War and Mira", Nadia rides with his father from Moscow to the autumn Borodino field, long wanders on a huge valley, stopping and carefully browsing the places where Bagrations were floss, the Battery of Raevsky, Shevardinsky Reduce, the Kutuzovsky Bet ...

Working on the drawings to "Master and Margarita", Nadia is bypassing all the old Moscow alleys, streets, boulevards where the action of the novel was played, where they went, tormented, argued, scandalous, Lukai Characters of Bulgakovsky fantasy.

And now I come back to the promised emergency comparison. What is it consisting? Father Nadi said that she did not know how to draw naturalistically, with a light, never copied nature. Even making their self-portraits, she just looked at the mirror for a short time, and then painted in memory. Her drawings were always improvisation.

So how do you combine this improvisational manner with the desire to familiarize yourself with the life of the heroes of your drawings, with places where they lived and acted, look closely to these places surrounding items, study them?

So it usually works the one who is finished committed to realism. But the improviser artist seems to be not so much?

Nadi drawings are improvisation. They are to some extent fantastic, fabulous, but at the same time they are inspired by concrete reality, life, book, fact. And Nadia is faithful to specific images, things, events. Figures Nadi despite improvisation and sometimes fantasticity, are not groundless, no impersonal, not indifferent to life. They follow their lives to the same way as they follow the creative impulse Nadi. They are fantastic and realistic at the same time. They are a fairy tale, which has become a fair, poetry in the chart.

Nadia draws mythical sirens. A lot of them. She loves them. But how does she love them? And what are they nadi?

First of all, these are not those fierce sirens, sea divas, which in myths are putting their singing of travelers in the sea bumps to destroy them. You can only escape from them with the ears of the wax, so as not to hear their singing, as did it Odyssey with his companions. Nadi sirens are affectionately by the sirens, and they do not lie anyone. On the contrary, they are very charming, friendly, friendly and, not cord from themselves, are engaged in the most common things: walk on the views of the models in the house's house, serve as waiters, arrange at home, from time to time, big washing and, removing your fish tails and wrapped They are hanging on a row like panties, on ropes for drying.

Surprisingly, these sirens are surprising, and Nadia is friendly with them. She has even such a drawing: "Friendship with a Siren", where the ordinary girl may be Nadia herself, smiling, standing in an embrace with a lilac and peacefully talks to her.

Centaurian with a laurel wreath.

Very homemade, miles and centauries, as well as centaurs and centalarm. Centaurians as coquettle as sirens. On all four empties they have high, sharp, the most fashionable heels. Nadi and Centaurian relations, Nadi and Sirenski, in my opinion, are those who should be the relationship of the artist to their creatures: they are completely natural, humane, sincere. Through these relationships, the artist himself is very deep and reliably, his good view of the world around him.

Meeting of Vakha and Nymphs.

And one more hidden in the nadine images: it is a kind smile and cheerful artist's eyes, her soft humor - soft and at the same time bold and thin.

Saluna and Spitz.

In this cheerlee, perky, mischievous attitude to the material there is something open-child - and at the same time courageously adult, fearless. The artist does not adopt, does not get better in front of the myth, before the fairy tale, but simply takes this world as artistic accuracy and completely free and is ease in relation to him.

What to say?

Say what you want.

Okay. I will tell you how he got a twice in mathematics.

And told. The story is cute, simple, open - everything is direct, everything is without a rustle, without embellishment. In Him - all Nadia, all its character, the whole mental system.

I watched three short films about Nad. In them, Nadia is also like that: without retouching and embellishment. It wanders in Leningrad ... Here it has a winter groove, on the Neva embankment, in the summer garden, a nice, cute girl, sometimes even a girl. It looks at a wonderful city that loved so much, in which he was in his short life four times.

In the last film about Nady - a very short and cum for a farewell smile and sorrowful titer "The film could not finish, as Nadya Rushev died in March sixty-ninth year ..." - selected one gesture nadi.

Slowly passing through the rooms of the Pushkin apartment and peering into the surrounding relics, Nadia is volatile, some surprisingly intimate gesture brings her hand to face, to the cheek. This unexpected gesture is captivated, he gives to know the viewer, with which inner excitement, with what tremble, shut down with spiritual alarm and joy peeking in Pushkin, in his life, in his poems.

I asked Nadi Father: did she know about his aneurysm, that her illness was fatal? Nikolai Konstantinovich answered Briefly: "No. No one knew ... in the morning, at home, going to school, lost consciousness ... "

I can not say - for the better what Nadia did not suspect about every minute who slept her death. Maybe if he knew, it would deprive her drawings that beautiful and truly great harmony, which he would live in them, would impose a tragic print. I do not know, I do not know ... But I know one thing - looking at the mumps of the pictures, I once again finally made sure that good wizards exist in the world live among us ...

Amazing facts about the life of the most young artist of the USSR.

Muscovites older still remember the queue in the Pushkin Museum at the exhibition of graphics of a 17-year-old Moscow schoolgirl, which the whole Union knew as a genius young artist Nadia Rushev. She was the author of thousands of delightful drawings, including the illustrations of the "master and margarita" - the best of all existing, on the authoritative opinion of the widow of Bulgakov.

Nadia Rusheva was born on January 31, 1952 in Ulan Bator. Her father was the Soviet artist Nikolai Konstantinovich Roshev, and Mother - the first Tuvinian ballerina Natalia Doydallovna Azhikmaa-Rushev.

The first Tuvinian ballerina Natalia Doydalovna Azhikmaa-Rusheva.

Parents Nadi got acquainted in August 1945. Nikolai Rushev lived in Moscow, he came to a business trip to Tuva. He was always interested in the East, but from this trip, not only impressions and books, but also an exotic oriental beauty, was brought. In old photos, Natalia Doydalovna, a purebred tunic, similar to China from Wong Car-Waa films. In the autumn of 1946, they got married.

Draw Nadia starts at five years. Nobody taught it to this, she just took a pencil and paper into the hands and never parted in life with them anymore. Once she painted 36 illustrations to the "tale of Tsar Saltan" Pushkin, during the time the Father read this fairy tale out loud. In the last television interview, Nadia told: "At first there were drawings to Pushkin's fairy tales. Dad read, and I painted at this time - I drew what at the moment I feel ... Then, when I myself had learned to read, I was already to the "copper rider", "Belkin's Hands", to "Eugene Onegin" ... "

Little Nadia Rusheva with parents.

Nadia never enjoyed an eraser. The feature of the style of Nadi Rusheva was that the girl never did sketches and did not use an eraser for a pencil. There are practically no hatching and fixed lines in the drawings. She always painted on the first attempt, as if he had doused on a piece of contours only to her. That is how she herself and described the process of drawing: "I see them in advance ... They appear on paper, like watermarks, and I remain there anything to circle them."

There is not a similar feature on its drawings, but in each work the artist virtuoso transmits emotions - often with just a few lines.

Father decided not to give a girl to an art school. Nadia almost never painted from nature, did not love and did not know how to do it. Father was afraid to destroy the Mistri Girl's gift and accepted the most important decision - not to teach it drawing. He believed that the main thing in Talent was Nadi - her amazing imagination, which is impossible to teach.

Licecilists-freezers: Kyhehelbecker, Pushkin, Pushkin, Delvig. From the Pushkinian series.

The first exhibition Nadi took place when she was only 12 years old. In 1963, her drawings were printed in the "Pioneer Pravda", and a year later, the first exhibitions took place - in the editorial office of the journal "Youth" and in the "Art Club" of Moscow State University. In the next five years, another 15 solo exhibitions passed - in Moscow, Warsaw, Leningrad, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and India.

Pushkin reads. From the Pushkinian series.

"Bravo, Nadya, Bravo!", "The Italian storyteller Janni Rodari wrote on one of her works. In assessing her creativity, simple viewers and art historians were unanimous - pure magic. As possible with the help of paper and pencil or even a felt-meter transfer the finest movements of the soul, the expression of the eye, plastic? .. The explanation was one thing: a girl is a genius. "The fact that it created a brilliant girl becomes clear from the first drawing," wrote Irakli Louarsabovich Andronikov, arguing about the "Pushkinian" cycle.

"I do not know another similar example in the history of the visual arts. Among the poets, musicians were rare, but there were extremely early creative explosions, artists - never. All of the youth goes to the studio and the development of skills, "the doctor of art with Alexey Sidorov admired Nadiy Sidorov.

Only in the series "Pushkinian" there were more than 300 drawings. Among the works of Nadi Rusheva - illustrations to the myths of ancient Eldla, works of Pushkin, Lion Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov. In total, the girl illustrated the works of 50 authors. The most famous drawings of Nadi are a series of illustrations to the "Little Prince" fairy tale, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, to the novel in the verse "Eugene Onegin" Pushkin and to "Master and Margarita" Bulgakov. Pushkin, whom Nadya called "the most native poet", the artist dedicated about 300 drawings. She was able to career illustrator, but she herself wanted to become a multiplier, was preparing to act in VGIK.

Pushkin and Anna Kern (from the "Pushkinian" series).

Other famous Nadi Rusheva cycles - "Self-portraits", "Ballet", "War and Peace" and other works.

Vacationer ballerina (1967).

Figures Nadi highly appreciated the widow of the writer Elena Sergeyevna Bulgakov. The Roman and Margarita Roman "Master and Margarita" donor read in the same breathing in the USSR. The book completely captured her. She postponed all other projects and literally lived in the Bulgak world created. Together with the father, they walked around the places where the effect of the novel was unfolded, and the result of these walks was the amazing cycle of drawings, in which Nadia Rushev appeared already as a practically-consistent artist.

Incredibly, but these half a century created pictures remain to this day, perhaps, the most famous illustrations for the Roman Bulgakov - and the most successful, in many ways prophetic. Never seeing Elena Sergeyevna Bulgakov, the widow writer and the prototype of Margarita, Nadia gave her Margarita similarity with this woman - amazing dismissions, the quality of genius. And the master turned out to look like Mikhail Afanasyevich himself.

It is not surprising that Elena Sergeyevna was fascinated by the works of Nadi: "How freely! .. Ruthless! .. Poetic inappropriateness: the more you look, the more delays ... what amplitude of feelings! .. The girl at the age of 16 perfectly understood everything. And not only understood, but also convincingly, perfectly depicted. "

Once in the spring, per hour has not been hot sunset ...

Master and Margarita.

The first meeting of the Master and Margarita.

Margarita snags manuscript from fire.

The poet homeless.

Literally on the eve of death, Nadia went to Leningrad, where a documentary film was filmed about her. At the end of February 1969, Lenfilm's film studio invited a 17-year-old artist to take part in the filming of a biographical film about himself. Unfortunately, the film "You, as the first love" remained unfinished. Nadia returned home literally the day to death.

One of the most striking episodes of a ten-minute incomplete film - those a few seconds when Nadya draws a branch on the snow Pushkin's profile.

Nadezhda Rusheva. Self-portrait.

She died unexpectedly. On March 5, 1969, Nadia as usual was going to school and suddenly lost consciousness. She was taken to the first town hospital, where she died, not coming into herself. It turned out that she lived with congenital aneurysm of brain vessels. Then it was not able to treat it. Moreover, doctors said that this is a miracle - to live to 17 years old with such a diagnosis.

No one knew that Nadi aneurysm was never complained about his health, was a cheerful and happy child. Death came from hemorrhage into the brain.

"The merciless cruelty of fate broke out of life just the bloomed talent of the ingenious Moscow girl Nadi Rusheva. Yes, ingenious, - now there is nothing to be afraid of premature assessment, "from the posthumous article by Academician V.A. Vatagina in the journal "Youth".

Nadia left behind a huge artistic legacy - about 12,000 drawings. The exact number of their number cannot be calculated - a significant proportion was divided into letters, hundreds of sheets artist presented to friends and acquaintances, a considerable number of work for various reasons was not returned from the first exhibitions. Many of her drawings are stored in the Museum of Lion Tolstoy in Moscow, at the Nadi Rusheva Museum-branch in the city of Kyzyl, in the Pushkin House of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, the National Fund of Culture and the State Museum of A.C. Pushkin in Moscow.

The journalist and writer Dmitry Shevarov in his article about Nesthe Rusheva says that the work of the Soviet artist turned out to be extremely close to Japanese classical aesthetics.

"The Japanese still remember Nadia, publish her drawings on postcards," Shevarov wrote. "Arriving to us, they are surprised that in Russia there is no Rushevsky Museum Center that the work of Nadi lie in the stockbags, and most of the young people did not hear anything about Rusheva. "This is your Mozart in Fine Arts!" - They say the Japanese and shrug themselves inundely: they say how these Russians are rich in talents that they can afford to forget even about their geniuses. "

But how? Where? Why instead of skaks and classics - books, biographies and hours of painstaking work without rest and break. Work to which no one forced her. And why the ancient Ellada, the biography of Pushkin and the "Abidos Bride" of Byron interested in a 12-year-old child more than games and chatter with girlfriends? Alas, no one will not answer these questions. The girl as if she was in a hurry to fulfill her a famous mission and, having completed her, left his life.

Nadia Rusheva died on March 6, 1969 in the hospital due to the rupture of the congenital aneurysm of the brain vessel and the subsequent hemorrhage in the brain and was buried at the Pokrovsky cemetery in Moscow.

Opt Rusheva was filmed in 2008 a television transfer from the "Secret Signs" cycle.

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More than 160 exhibitions of its work in Japan, Germany, USA, India, Mongolia, Poland and many other countries have passed.