Morozov Sergey Viktorovich (1954)

Sergey Viktorovich Morozov was born in Krasnodar, he is a hereditary cossack and already represents the fourth generation of artists. He graduated from the art-graphic department of the Kuban State University in 1977. In 1984, he completed an internship at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I. E. Repin (workshop of Professor B. Ugarov). For many years he studied under the famous Russian teacher, painting theorist, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Yu.I. Skorikov.

Sergey Viktorovich Morozov lives and works in St. Petersburg and Goryachiy Klyuch. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1988. Member of the Peter Academy of Sciences and Arts (2008), full member (2013) and Professor of the Academy of Russian Literature and Fine Arts. G.R. Derzhavina (2015). Podesaul, the farm ataman of the North-Western Cossack Society at the village of Nikolskaya, a member of the Cossacks Union of the Czech lands and Slovenia (Prague) and the city Cossack community of Goryachiy Klyuch.

Participant of numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad: urban, regional, zonal, Russian and international (Florence, Italy, 1998; Paris, France, 1997; Burgas, Bulgaria, 1985; Leipzig, Germany, 2000; Reykjavik, Iceland, 2004; San Francisco and Los Angeles, United States, 1996, 2000, 2009).

Winner of the International Competition "Russia Loyal Sons" (2003).

Solo exhibitions of Sergey Viktorovich were held in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012, 2014), Krasnodar (1988, 2011). He was awarded with thanks of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory, diplomas and certificates from the Peter Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Perhaps it is difficult to give the name of another contemporary artist, who would also be partial to the history of his people and his native land, who would be as devoted to the basics and traditions as Sergey Viktorovich Morozov. A famous realist, he is a representative of the classical school of painting. His vocation is genre and historical paintings, and also works well in the genre of portrait, landscape and still life. Dedicated to people and the beauty of free nature, his paintings connect us with the traditions and precepts of our ancestors.

S.V. Morozov sacredly honors the traditions of the ancestors and the Code of Honor of the true cossack. He believes that a cossack without faith is not a cossack, but this is, first of all, the observance of the ten commandments of Christ, and the attitude to people, and the honoring of traditions. Cossacks have always been monarchists, loyal to the oath and the throne, went forward "for Faith, King and Fatherland." By the way, one of his works is called that way. He wrote it for eight years, its size - 1.25x2.5 meters.

This picture is a kind of anthem to the cossacks. Its plot is dedicated to sending the Kuban Cossack troops to the First World War. All the action takes place against the background of the Church of St. George, the holy fathers sanctify the cavalry, bless the Cossacks for feats. Another, quite famous of his historical work, is called “Church-office in the Ascension Cathedral in honor of the 200th anniversary of the city of Novocherkassk”. Over this picture Sergei Viktorovich work 5 years and more than once traveled to Novocherkassk to collect etude material. His teacher Yury Ivanovich Skorikov said how important it is to see the place of events with your own eyes... The idea of this work is the unity of all the Cossack troops of modern Russia. In the story, in Novocherkassk, for a celebration on the occasion of the anniversary of the city, Cossacks gathered from all over the country, representatives of all the Cossack troops - Don, Kuban, Terek, Ural and other armies. The head of the House of Romanovs Maria Vladimirovna, depicted on the canvas, took part in the celebrations.

Creativity S.V. Morozov is well known both in Russia and abroad, including in the Czech Republic, where he took part in the work of the first congress of the “Cossack Union of the Czech Lands and Slovakia”. His works are in the museums of the Baltic Fleet in Estonia and the Krasnodar Art Museum. F. A. Kovalenko, in the collections of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, as well as in private collections in Russia, the USA, France, England, Italy, Germany.