A former student of one of the Oryol universities went in absentia to the Moscow Academy of Arts. Surikov. That's how it was. We quote correspondence. Text and punctuation are copyrighted.

A former student of one of the Oryol universities went in absentia to the Moscow Academy of Arts. Surikov. That's how it was. We quote correspondence. Text and punctuation are copyrighted.



*** Dear Colleagues!
I send you my drawing. Help, please, draw a normal horse, I killed so much time and still it turns out that it's with human legs. Dies because a normal picture!

Dear Andrey,
In your figure you can feel the true talent, the talent of the grain grower or the commissioner of the high-voltage transmission lines. Your drawing and letter are posted in our gallery. Everything is rzhem. Thank you very much. If there are more drawings, immediately send.
With tears in his eyes,
Prof. A. Bichukov.




*** Dear Colleagues!
Honestly, I did not expect such frivolity from such respected husbands. In my opinion, there is nothing to laugh at here, my colleague asks you for help, what's so funny? I, damn, spent three hours on these ******* s horses ... horseradish draw, but some mistakes I still corrected: the horses have their hind legs knees-back!

Dear Andryusha!
You will soon finish the old sick man. I can not laugh so much, you again hit the mark, your second drawing is back in the gallery and gathers crowds of people. You disrupt the classes, the professors can not restrain themselves and jump at the mention of horses. Klodt, if you know who that is; But it does not matter, he also devoted a lot of time to his horses, so the late Klodt now seems to be spinning so madly that the centrifugal force grabs me. Andryushechka answer us, please, to the question: to what city does the Russian land owe the birth of such a nugget? What sadist broke the horse's hind legs, or maybe she herself hurt, jumping from the tree in the first figure? Who transplanted the skinny and harmless horse as an elephant bullseye and a dog's head? And that it sticks out at the horse, excuse me, out of priests?
Virtually blinded from the tears of emotion
Prof. A. Bichukov.




*** Dear Colleagues!
Although I personally began to doubt your kindness, in my opinion, you are there smug old conservatives who only know how to mock, but to support the Russian school of painting, whose representative I am, there you are not. Despite everything, I did it myself, and in the end I got two wonderful horses. Only in one thing I agreed with you: "what sticks out at the horse, excuse me from priests" (this, by the way, is a tail and not bad), really should be higher, and it seems that the horse, I will not ask you for forgiveness, I will say how There is, *** t, I am normal to constructive criticism.




Dear Andryushka!
And in my thoughts there was no mockery at you, on the contrary, the whole academy is waiting for letters from you to wait, everyone comes in to ask if you have any news from you. So this time you did not fail, speaking your language, the "Russian School of Painting" again gave everyone a ***** sya, so to speak, showed all these lotters, monks, picassos, where the horses graze. By the way, if you have sketches with other animals, send without fail, you, as I understand it, an animal painter. Miracle, not horses, again in the gallery, just do not get it wrong again and do not be offended, can you ask some more questions, just to satisfy your own and not just your curiosity? Everyone is very interested. Why is the first horse so long, maybe this mad professor stuck her hood from the spinal cord of the dachshund, and why this poor horse has only two legs? Why did the second horse so injured by the hind legs? It seems that the hound you sent earlier, once again jumped off the tree. And what is this strange ironing of all the horses on their feet?
Sincere admirer of your
Brilliant talent
Prof. A. Bichukov.