There are many people whose talent is revealed in early childhood. However, not all of them become famous and gain world fame. Many remain geniuses who are not known to anyone, who are forced to hardly eke out their miserable existence. But there are also individuals who, on the contrary, at the peak of their popularity, die early. It is to them that Nadia Rusheva belongs. This is a small 17-year-old artist with a tragic and at the same time happy fate, which we will talk about in our article.
Birth, adolescence and youth of a little artist
Talking about the eternally young 17-year-old girl who was destined for such a short but very bright fate can only be positive. She is a little sun, which during her life caused only delight. Nadezhda was born on January 31, 1952, in the family of the talented master of fine arts Nikolai Konstantinovich Rushev and the first Tuvan ballerina Natalia Doydalovna Azhikmaa-Rusheva. However, Nadia was not an ordinary child.
Inexplicable craving for drawing
The girl's penchant for drawing appeared in early childhood. Back in five years, the baby's father began to notice one interesting feature: as soon as he began to read aloud tales, his daughter immediately jumped up, ran away somewhere and returned with a pencil and paper. Then she sat down next to her, listened carefully to her father’s voice and carefully drew something on paper. So little by little Nadya Rusheva began to draw.
School and drawing
Parents loved Nadyusha very much, so before school they tried to “not bother the child” with exact and humanitarian sciences. They specifically did not teach her to write or read. When the baby was seven years old, she was sent to study at school. So Hope for the first time began to master science, learn to write, read and count. Despite her tiredness and workload as part of the school curriculum, the girl still found time and took half an hour a day after classes to draw.
Over the years, the artist’s interest in Russian fairy tales, myths and legends of Ancient Greece, and biblical parables did not dry up. At this age, Nadia Rusheva continued to combine her favorite pastime, drawing, with listening to evening tales performed by dad.
The first record for the number of pictures
Once Nadia, as usual, sat and listened to dad, who read for her "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by A.S. Pushkin and traditionally made sketches. When the curiosity of Nikolai Konstantinovich prevailed, and he decided to see what the girl was painting there, his surprise knew no bounds. As it turned out, during the reading of the tale, Nadyusha created as many as 36 pictures corresponding to the subject of the work. These were wonderful illustrations, the simplicity of the lines of which was amazing.
What are the features of the drawings by Nadia Rusheva
The main feature of Rusheva's painting was that during her young career, the girl never made sketches and did not use an eraser for a pencil. The artist Nadia Rusheva preferred to create her masterpieces the first time. And if at the same time something did not work out for her or she did not like the result, she simply squeezed it, threw out the picture and started again.
According to the youngest talent, she heard or read some story, took a sheet of paper and already mentally saw what image to draw on it.
Nadia Rusheva (biography): recognition in adults
Inspired by the extraordinary capabilities of his daughter, Nikolai Konstantinovich decided to share his happiness. To do this, he showed her finished pictures to his colleagues. As expected, they unanimously concluded that Nadia has an extraordinary talent. From that moment on, the girl’s father decided at all costs to engage in his development.
The first exhibition and first life experience
The efforts of the Soviet artist Rushev Nikolai Konstantinovich were not in vain. When Nadezhda turned 12, her very first personal exhibition was organized with his help. How much joy and positive emotions she brought to a fifth grader who dreams of becoming a famous animator!
And although many critics were wary and somewhat distrustful of the schoolgirl, who did not have a diploma of graduating from a specialized art school and extensive life experience, this did not alienate, but, on the contrary, became a certain incentive for the artist. Nadia Rusheva (her photo can be seen above) did not leave her hobby, but continued to develop and improve her abilities.
However, along with unexpectedly popping popularity in the girl’s life, practically no changes occurred. She still continued to go to school and study, walk with friends, read and draw a lot.
Creating a new series of illustrations
At the age of 13, Nadia Rusheva created a new series of pictures, which are illustrations for the work "Eugene Onegin." To the surprise of all relatives, friends and acquaintances, the teenage girl managed to combine two incredible things: not only to display people corresponding to a certain historical era, but even to convey their mood.
Drawings are a ray of hope
Paintings of Nadezhda Rusheva are ordinary pencil or watercolor sketches, which are a set of contours and lines. As a rule, they almost completely lacked hatching and tinting.
According to the famous sculptor Vasily Vatagin, Nadia Rusheva painted pictures with simple lines. However, they were made in such a light technique that many experienced, adult painters could envy such skill.
If we talk about the characters of the artist, they are so carefully selected and drawn that, looking at them, you are simply amazed. Her mythical characters are not at all evil. On the contrary, they are kind and designed to evoke only positive emotions.
According to the girl’s dad himself, she was well able to capture the mood of the authors who wrote this or that work, as well as transfer it to paper. Centaurs, mermaids, gods and goddesses, characters from the Bible and fairy tales seemed to come to life under the pencil of a talented artist. It is unfortunate that Nadia Rusheva passed away early. Death overtook her at such a young age. We will describe in more detail how this happened below.
Exhibitions and new achievements of the girl
Over the next five years, many publishers, as well as art representations, became interested in the work of Nadezhda. During this period, 15 new exhibitions of works by a young artist took place. They were successfully held in Poland, Romania, India, Czechoslovakia and other countries of the world. Among the paintings of Nadia were illustrations of ancient Greek myths and legends, tales and works of Soviet poets and prose writers.
Bulgakov's work in the creative life of Nadezhda
A special touch on the life path of Nadezhda was a series of illustrations made by her while reading such a significant work of Bulgakov as “The Master and Margarita”. At that time, the girl was only 15 years old.
For those who do not own information, the main characters of this novel are vivid prototypes of the author himself and his beautiful wife. Without even realizing this, Nadia Rusheva intuitively felt this resemblance and did everything possible to transfer her thoughts to paper.
Extraordinary craving for ballet
Few people know that, in addition to literary works, the artist was also interested in ballet. Little hope often happened at mother's rehearsals and admired her grace during a performance. Once Nadezhda even managed to draw an illustration for the ballet “Anna Karenina”, and long before the music for this work was written.
Bulgakov's choice
When the author of the sensational novel today saw Nadina's illustrations, he was struck by them. Therefore, he immediately decided to use them as spectacular illustrations for the book. So the young artist became the first fifteen-year-old author who was officially allowed to illustrate the novel. Later, she illustrated the novel War and Peace by L. Tolstoy.
Unexpected death
No one could even think that Nadia Rusheva would leave this world so quickly and unexpectedly. The cause of her death, according to official figures, is the rupture of one of the vessels with subsequent hemorrhage in the brain.
“Everything happened suddenly,” the girl’s father shared his impressions. - In the early morning, Nadezhda, as usual, was going to school, suddenly she felt bad and lost consciousness. The doctors fought for her life for more than five hours, but they still failed to save her. ”
And although the girl’s parents did not want to lose hope, the news of the death of their daughter completely unsettled them. Father and mother for a long time could not believe that their sun was no longer there. And so Nadia Rusheva passed away. The cause of death is a congenital aneurysm.
A lot of time has passed since the death of the talented artist, but even today, her memory is alive in the hearts of connoisseurs of her work and other artists.