On March 5, 2013, Honoured Artist of Russia Andrey Kharshak and his wife – well-known artist Natalya Kornilova, representatives of the most interesting art dynasty of St. Petersburg, visited the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes.
Their cooperation with the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes started from that visit. Natalya Kornilova and her husband Andrey Kharshak donated a part of engravings from the collection of art historian Pyotr Yevgenievich Kornilov. Pyotr Kornilov had professional and friendly ties with the graphic artists who created those works. The list of the donated engravings include the xylographs of Genrietta and Nikolay Burmagins; several xylographs of Pavel Shillingovsky from the cycle titled “Besieged City” (1941-1942, his last work); the illustrations to the book of P. Mérimée (1960-1961) “The Chronicles of the Times of Charles the Ninth”; the illustrations of Gennady Dmitrievich Yepifanov to “Exemplary Novels” of Miguel de Cervantes (1934); “Poor Liza” of N.M. Karamzin (1947); ‘The Odyssey” of Homer (1958); “The Queen of Spades” of A.S. Pushkin (1966); the xylographs of Leonid Semyonovich Khizhinsky - the illustrations to the books of O.E. Ozarovskaya “Pyatirechiye” (1930) and O. Forsh “Dressed in Stone” (1937). The last work was given the award at the Paris World Fair in 1937.
The engravings from the collection of Pyotr Yevgenievich Kornilov became a weighty contribution to the graphic arts collection of the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes.
