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Grigor’yev, Boris (Dmitriyevich)
(b Rybinsk, 11 July 1886; d Cagnes-sur-Mer, nr Nice, 7 Feb 1939). Russian painter and graphic artist. After attending the Stroganov School in Moscow from 1903 to 1907, Grigor’yev enrolled at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg [later Petrograd], where he took lessons from Aleksandr Kiselyov (1838–1911) and Dmitry Kardovsky until 1912. At the Academy he gained his technical expertise as an illustrator, which is demonstrated in his caricatures for the satirical journals Satirikon and Novy Satirikon in 1912–14. During those years Grigor’yev lived mainly in Paris, where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and he published some of his interpretations of Parisian street and café life in his collection of piquant bordello scenes, Intimité (1918). Just before the Revolution of 1917 Grigor’yev frequented the cabarets of Paris and Petrograd, and he helped Sergey Sudeykin and Aleksandr Yakovlev, for example, to decorate the interior of the Petrograd cellar known as Prival Komediantov (The Comedians’ Halt) in 1915. A member of the Petrograd bohemia, Grigor’yev was close to many artists and writers of the time, such as Vasily Shukhayev, Velimir Khlebnikov and the poet Anna Akhmatova, and he often drew or painted their portraits. Grigor’yev was also fascinated by the Russian countryside, and his cycle of pictures Raseya (e.g. The Countryside, 1918; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.) are startling expressions of the poverty, primitive strength and resentment of the Russian peasantry.
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