18.11.1870 — 05.07.1942

Alexander A. Buchkuri was born in the settlement Buturlinovka of the Voronezh province. A surname for the Russian ear he received from his father, a Greek of Turkish origin. However, from early childhood he lived in the house of his stepfather Michelson in the village of Khrenovskoye.

The interest and attraction of the boy to drawing in the family was supported, but he could not get education only at the age of 23, when a free drawing school opened in Voronezh.

Five years later, being an adult, Alexander Buchkuri decides to enter the Academy of Arts, and becomes a free-listening student of the studio IE. Repin.

Folk traditions have always interested Alexander Alekseevich. After studying at the Academy of Arts, Butchkuri did not stay in St. Petersburg, as one would expect, and in 1907 returned to his small homeland, Voronezh. Here he settled in Skoryazhny Lane, which now bears the name of the artist.

In Voronezh, Buchkuri not only actively wrote, but also engaged in teaching activities. He created a lot of wonderful, amazing and original works, developed his easily recognizable style.

The life of the artist and his wife was tragically cut short in 1942, when Voronezh was occupied by fascist troops. The family was shot, and the painter’s workshop was ruined.

In the collection of the Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy there is a picture of Alexander Alekseevich Buchkuri “Wedding Train”. Colorful decorative folk costumes create an upbeat, joyful mood with their motley. The girlfriends of the bride are cheerful, the muzhik-driver is smiling cunningly, in the image of which the artist presented himself, not only the main heroine-the bride, who the girls sitting in front of her with surprise look at with surprise. The artist filled the major with a color scheme of sadness and psychology. Each image is filled with their own emotions and thoughts, and makes the viewer think.