The photo portrait of I.K. Tomkovid

The year of 2010 was declared the year of Ivan Fomich Khrutsky by UNESCO. Within the framework of celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of a talented artist across the country, various events took place. Much attention was paid to studying the family tree of the Khrutsky and collecting biographical information about representatives of his genus. It is known that the descendants of the academician of painting chose different professions, but some followed their famous ancestor and devoted their lives to the service of the fine arts. One of them was Ivan Konstantinovich Tomkovid (1888-1972), graphic artist, grandson of I.F. Khrutsky. In 1906-1910, he studied at the school of Y. Pan in Vitebsk. For a long time Ivan Tomkovid worked as a cartoonist under the name "Ikar": first in the magazines "The Whole World", "The Sun of Russia", and after 1917 - "Around the World", "Young Proletarian". In addition, he illustrated children's books. With his wife Natalia Grebneva (1895-1976), Ivan Konstantinovich lived in Leningrad. The exposition of the Museum of Local Lore presents a picture of the first quarter of the 20th century, in which young Ivan Tomkovid, through the eyes of an experienced artist, peers into a blank sheet of paper and draws a sketch of the future drawing with a pencil. For people of that time, a trip to the photo was a holiday. Here the artist is dressed in a festive way: a suit, a white shirt and a bow tie. This photo came in the collections in 2001 from the inhabitant of Kiev L.N. Padun-Lukyanova.