Biography of Gorodilin

Vera Borisovna Gorodilina was born on January 21 of the year in the city of Nikolsk-Ussuriysky Primorsky Territory now the city of Ussuriysk. She spent her childhood and youth in the city of Harbin, where parents emigrated during the civil war. From there, parents wanted to move to the United States, but this failed, so they settled in Manchuria. There, she graduated from the gymnasium.

Dostoevsky and art school.

In the year she moved to Shanghai, and in the year - to the city of Alapaevsk of the Sverdlovsk region. We can say that it was in this city by chance. Gorodilina recalled: “We were brought to Sverdlovsk, where there was a distribution - whoever wants, to Moscow, to Leningrad, completely freely. But then I hated Shanghai so much that I asked only to a small city, anyway, which was very surprised by everyone.

Since I was driving as a theater artist, I was offered to choose from: either the puppet theater in Nizhny Tagil, or the Drama Theater in Alapaevsk. I said that I didn’t care that I do not know either one or the other, and received a direction in Alapaevsk by an assistant decorator. ” Vera Borisovna considered this a real gift of fate. In Alapaevsk, she worked as an assistant to the artist of the Drama Theater, a teacher of music at school and a music school.

Here, Gorodilina was the first to become interested in the Ural period of the life of P. Tchaikovsky in the Urals. At that time, the Urals practically forgot about this. She collected information about the life of the future composer and his family in Alapaevsk, made sketches, created models of the rooms as they were at that time. In addition, since the year, Gorodilina made miniature copies of musical instruments around the world.

The efforts of Gorodilina on the eve of the flight from the birth of the great composer P. Tchaikovsky in the year at the former house of the manager of factories opened the composer's memorial room. Gradually, it grew into the Tchaikovsky Memorial Museum. Gorodilina, on a voluntary basis, was engaged in the museum, made layouts and collected musical instruments of the world, participated in local art exhibitions, and contributed to the creation of an art studio with a gallery of works of Alapaevsky artists.

Her painting was dedicated to the life of P. Tchaikovsky and the history of Alapaevsk. For her merits in the year, Gorodilina received the title “Honorary Citizen of the city of Alapaevsk”. She died on March 3 in the city of Alapaevsk, forever leaving a good memory in the hearts of people. Gorodilina year read also:.