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Biography
After graduating from a seven-year school, in 1932, the young artist left for Moscow, where he was expected by the hard lot of a street child, and then a pupil of a military unit. Having visited the art museum for the first time, Barkhatkov decided to enter the Moscow Art School in memory of 1905. He was enrolled in a course with Levitan's student Petr Petrovichev. He graduated from college just before the war, in 1940, after which he returned home to Belarus.
Great Patriotic War
The Great Patriotic War found the artist near Rogachev, where he was surrounded by the Germans. The artist became a member of the partisan detachment "For Soviet Belarus" operating in the territory of the Kostyukovichi district and the Bryansk region. Under the command of twice Hero of the Soviet Union A.F. Fedorov, he took part in the operations of a partisan formation.
Post-war period
After the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders in 1944, the artist took part in organizing and holding the first exhibition of Belarusian art in Moscow, which is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the creation of the BSSR. At this exhibition, he met an outstanding Belarusian artist, master of landscapes Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya. The exposition of the exhibition marked the beginning of a new collection of the Belarusian State Art Museum, devastated during the war, in the organization of which they both took part.
In 1945 he entered the Moscow Art Institute named after Surikov, where his teachers were D.K. Mochalsky, S.V. Gerasimov. He finished his studies in 1948.
Family
Wife - Sofya Kuzminichna Kovaleva, actress.
Children:
Witold - artist, lives in the USA;
Irina is a philologist;
Igor is an artist.
Creativity
He often worked together with Byalynitsky-Birulya in his Moscow workshop, went together to sketches at his dacha "Chaika", which was located in the Tver province on the shores of Lake Udomlya. Famous artists AE Arkhipov, S. Yu. Zhukovsky, K
