Mikhail Tkachev
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Kalach (town)
Kalach is a town and the administrative center of Kalacheyevsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tolucheyevka and Podgornaya Rivers, from Voronezh. Population:...

, Voronezh Province
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, Russian Empire
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) - Soviet
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, Russian
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 painter, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting
Leningrad School of Painting
The Leningrad School of Painting - a group of Soviet painters, established in Leningrad in 1930–1950 years around reformed Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and unified by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists .- History :...

, most famous for his landscape paintings.

Biography

Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev was born November 10, 1912, in the large cossack
Cossack
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 stanitsa
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 of Kalach
Kalach (town)
Kalach is a town and the administrative center of Kalacheyevsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tolucheyevka and Podgornaya Rivers, from Voronezh. Population:...

, Voronezh Province
Voronezh Oblast
Voronezh Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It was established on June 13, 1934.-Main rivers:*Don*Voronezh*Bityug*Khopyor-Economy:...

, Russian Empire
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The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

, located at the confluence of the Tolucheyevka River and Podgornaya River, 294 kilometers (183 mi) from Voronezh
Voronezh
Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...

. The Kalach
Kalach (town)
Kalach is a town and the administrative center of Kalacheyevsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tolucheyevka and Podgornaya Rivers, from Voronezh. Population:...

 was established in 1716 and was granted town status in 1945.

In 1929 the family moved to the city of Armavir
Armavir
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, where Michael Tkachev goes to the Artistic and Technical School, which graduated in 1932.

Since 1932 Michael Tkachev in Leningrad. In 1932-1937 he attend an evening class of Tavricheskaya Art School
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, then the Art Studio of the Leningrad House of Officers of Red Army, studied of Michail Avilov, Sergei Prisyolkov, Pavel Naumov, Efim Cheptsov.

In 1939-1945 Mikhail Tkachev took part in the Red Army in the Winter War
Winter War
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 (1939–1940) and in the Great Patriotic War. He was wounded and has military awards.

Since 1951 Mikhail Tkachev has participated in Art Exhibitions. Painted portraits, landscapes, genre and battle compositions. Solo Exhibitions by Mikhail Tkachev were in Leningrad
Leningrad
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 (1986) and Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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(1992).

Leading themes of Mikhail Tkachev paintings were images of native land and a memory of wartime. The most picturesque his studies from the life with the parental home and the surrounding Kalach. The colors restrained, with a predominance of green and ocher tones. Painting based on the transfer of light and shadow effects, tonal relations and the constructive role of drawing.

Mikhail Tkachev is a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg was established on August 2, 1932, as creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, was called "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists". Since 1959 was called as Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation...

 (before 1992 - Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1952, a Member of Peter's Academy of Sciences and Arts (1995).

In 1996, Mikhail Tkachev was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of Russian Federation.

Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev died on December 10, 2008 in Saint Petersburg. His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, France, in the U.S., Finland, Germane, England, Japan, and throughout the world.

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