Nikolay Rodin Biography

Father, Rodin Alexei Stepanovich, had three classes of education of a parish school. Mother, Anna Stepanovna, was completely illiterate. From early childhood, my father tamed me to work. In - 33 years, my parents were gone. There are four of us. I graduated from the elementary school in a year in a neighboring village of Gorna. The teacher of this school, Alexander Georgievna Ryabukhina, who devoted his whole life to the work of training and raising peasant children, in every way supported the love of drawing at school and especially persistently advised me to “study for the artist”.

My parents also loved art and supported my desire. Since the year, I studied at the factory seven-year-old in Bezhetsk, living at Aunt, Nesopotina Maria Stepanovna, my mother’s native sister. This illiterate woman herself was very fond of singing, music and fine art, and since the year I and my little Mary's sister, she became the second mother. At a seven-year school, I met an artist-pedagogue, a pupil of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Student A.

Stepanova and Ap. Vasnetsova, Ivan Malakhievich Kostenko. This wonderful, honest man, a great enthusiast of aesthetic education of the people, was my first art teacher. He was also the first teacher of artist A. after the end of the seven -year, on the advice of Ivan Malakhievich, I went to study at the Yaroslavl Regional Art School, which he graduated from the year. He wrote the thesis “White in the city” on “Good”.

My artists-artists at the school were: Sergey Fedorovich Shitov, a pupil of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, student of V. Serov, a bright propagandist of the Chistyakovo school of drawing. In addition, he was a good teacher of artists. He taught a drawing at the school since the year. Vladimir Illarionovich Gaposhkin, who brilliantly taught the history of Western European art and decorative painting.

A man of boiling energy and great social activity in the field of art in Yaroslavl. He was the head of the artistic part of the school. Andrei Alexandrovich Churin, in love with painting, a big fan of artists of the Renaissance. Alexandra Alekseevna Alekhina, a connoisseur of Russian art. With a hot heart, she promoted the achievements of Russian classical art, the Russian realistic school of painting and sculpture.

The father of the students was Ivan Ivanovich Andreev, a great soul man, director of an art school. After graduating from the school, in August, I went to work in the Bolsheyesel secondary school of the Yaroslavl region. He taught drawing, drawing and physical education. I began the service in the city of Lubny, Poltava region in the anti -tank forty -kapyamytimymma battery of the rifle regiment of the rifle division, charging.

We were prepared for sending to the Finnish front. Two hours before loading into the train, a truce was announced. The division remained in place. In June, in the same composition, I participated in the liberation of Bessarabia from the royal troops of Romania. I got into the 3rd tank battalion of a 22 tank regiment. A month later, by order of the regiment commander, they transfer me to work to the operational part of the regiment headquarters.

Then the Patriotic War found me. Retreat, bombing. During the defense of the District Center, the Mankovka of the Kyiv region of the Cherkasy region on July 28, I was wounded and taken to the hospital in Novo-Ukrainian, then to Dnepropetrovsk and further, in Sochi. The hospital was in the NKSO sanatorium, and the department of recovering, in the Dender Park, in a small two -story, with turrets, house.

Here, in the hospital, there were unforgettable meetings with the mother of Nikolai Ostrovsky. A stunning impression made on us, fighters, listening to the grames of Nikolai Ostrovsky. He read the 8th chapter from the novel "How Steel was tempered." His reading, his hard voice instilled in us the spirit of vivacity, stamina, courage and confidence. After recovery, on October 3, I was sent to the village of Abinskaya near Krasnodar in a reserve rifle regiment.

I was enrolled in a company of communications, and on September 28, I voluntarily left for the Bryansk Front as part of a team to replenish units and formations of the 13th Army. But we came directly surrounded by German troops and without weapons. For two weeks they went out with battles, hungry, dirty, armed, something. My first weapon was a dagger from the SVT rifle, later, a German rifle.

After leaving the encirclement, on October 24, our team consisting of 17 people from the village of Chernichino through Lgov-Kursky arrived at the Shchigra station to the personnel department of the headquarters of the Bryansk Front. We were sent to serve in the Bryansk Front protection battalion. I was ordered to work at the headquarters of the battalion. I made eye shooting, schemes of the regions of a new deployment of the front headquarters and carried out other instructions.

But by order of the commissar of the regiment, I had to play the role of the artist at the club club, being as a senior librarian. And only having submitted three reports with a request to send me to the front, on June 30, a group of fighters was sent to the acting at the front, in the area of ​​the city of Livna of the Oryol region, to the South Tank Brigade.I had to be a shooter, collect a trophy weapon, a regulator.

Soon I was ordered to work in the operational part of the headquarters of the brigade. In the brigade, I served until the end of the war, having traveled with her a long military path. It ended in Germany behind the Oder. As part of the 20 tank corps, the brigade waged hostilities in the Bolkhov-Orlovsky direction of the Battle of Kursk. On the Southern Front in the area of ​​Melitopol.

On the 2nd Ukrainian Front, on the Kryvyi Rih direction, in the Korsun-Shevchenkovsky battle, in Germany in the regions of Glagu and Breslau, on the other side of the Oder River.

My last military rank is the foreman. For my military work, the command of the brigade awarded me medals “For Military Merit”, “For Courage”, “For the Victory over Germany”. He returned to his homeland to the city of Bezhetsk. Soon he attempted to go to study at the Academy of Arts. But unsuccessfully. I was late for a month and a half. A year later, I entered the Kyiv State Art Institute at the faculty of graphics.

As a first -year student, I was invited to work as a laboratory assistant of an outlet workshop. For three years I combined the studies and work of the laboratory assistant. By the decision of the State Commission, I was sent to work in the Republican Secondary Art School. Shevchenko, where I taught drawing, painting and composition. Temporarily acted as a school principal. He taught at the Kiev evening faculty of the Lviv Polygraphic Institute.

Ivan Fedorov, in the ist there of the October Palace of Culture. Over thirty years I have a creative experience. He created etching series: “From the life and activity of M. there are many portrait, landscape drawings, watercolors and etchings, posters. Starting from the year, regularly participated in regional, republican, all -Union and foreign exhibitions.

For my creative work, on the occasion of the flight from the birth of V. Lenin, he was awarded the medal "For Labor Valor". Nikolai Rodin. The Archival Department of the Betskiy District Administration is the evening of memory for the summer from the birth of the Khudlzhnik-Earth N. Rodina "Steering for the homeland of love."