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The Children's Collection  

Mother
First step
Father
First Opus
Grandfather Came!
Waltz of Marmoset with Elephant
In a street
In a museum
Guests
Cartoons
Melancholy
Kitten Poosh
Lullaby
Dream

Gallery 2
Portrait of  Galina
Lilacs
The Tiger
Table for Two
Last Self Portrait 
The Recital

 

The Later Years of Sergey Volkov  (1980-1994 )

     Last Self Portrait 1994

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Being a talented artist, Sergey Volkov proved to be a real master of intuitive pictorial improvisation. Using his favorite medium, gouache, he obtained incredible results in exploring a unique expressive diapason of this technique.

However in his graphic cycles the artist was striving for the complete laconism and preciseness in the concordance of line and a meaning this line carries.

The complete artistic heritage of Sergey Volkov includes easel-painting, graphics, book illustrations, posters and design projects.

The album of musician and composer Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky and artist Sergey Volkov was intended to be a diptych combining a cycle of small light pieces for piano and series of graphic works illuminating each theme.

The creators decided to improvise on the topic about childhood,  ( as well as about fatherhood ) at the beginning of the 1990s. Having agreed on working separately and not to influence each other with ideas by any means, they went to their classes and as schoolboys set to write their “compositions on the preset topic”. Then they met , looked at what each of them had made, put the two halves of the heart-amulet together and were glad to see how well they matched.

“Children’s Album” is for everybody for both young and old. It is possible to bring life to the pictures, should you only touch the keys. This is almost a family photo album, turning pages of it one can understand how mature he or she has become, or can imagine how much of unknown is awaiting ahead.

            Sergey Volkov did not happen to see the finished album  because the  rising star of this loving artist was taken in tragedy on May 31, 1994 when  he was tragically murdered as he was preparing to leave the Vaskelovo train station to meet with his wife and 2 children who were waiting in their dacha  (summer house)... Sergey Volkov was beaten and left to die by a group of young robbers, the robbers took his money , his watch.. and his life.

All the work of publishing and issuing the “Children’s Album” was undertaken by Sergey's widow GalinaVolkova.

Galina Volkova and St. Petersburg journalist Boris Vladimirovich Manushin from the  Photo-News of St. Petersburg at a Photographic session in Galina Volkova's  apartment June 2001