Dr. SERGUEY ZAGRAEVSKY
Dr. Serguey Zagraevsky was born on August 20, 1964. His name may also be transliterated from Russian as Zagrajewski, Sagrajewski, Zagraewski, Zagraevskiy or Zagraevskij.
He began to paint since his school age, his first teachers were his father, the well-known Russian historian of architecture Wolfgang Kavelmakher, and the famous Russian painter Tatiana Mavrina.
In the Soviet times Serguey Zagraevsky engaged himself in science (problems of system analysis) in parallel with arts. Until 1997 he worked in Moscow Automobile and Road Institute as a senior scientist of the Applied Mathematics Chair. In the 1990s Dr. Zagraevsky became a professional historian of architecture and theologian, in parallel he was the general manager of some commercial companies.
All that time Serguey Zagraevsky did not stop painting. In the middle of the 1990s Bulat Okudzhava wrote about him:
Tomorrow there is one to drink Whisky with,
To remember about Eternal Arts.
That is the most Spring Naivist,
Serguey Zagraevsky that is.
When he moves on a picture his fist,
God is at his assist.
God is with him all his way.
That is the painter Serguey.
Since 1998 Serguey Zagraevsky completely devoted himself to arts, humanities and public activities, using his organizational experience at the post of the chairman of Artists Trade Union, one of the most authoritative artist’s organization in Russia. Painter Serguey Zagraevsky held in Moscow more than ten personal exhibitions and took part in tens of group ones.
In 2002–2005 Dr. Zagraevsky gave lectures in the Institute of Restauration Arts, now he gives lections in the Russian University of Intellectual Property and in Vladimir-Souzdal Museum. In 2004 he became the General Manager of the company “City Advertisement”, which arranges social advertising and information in Moscow.
Dr. Zagraevsky is Professor of History of Architecture, the full member of Art Critics Academy and of Writers Union of Russia, and the author of a number of books on philosophy, theology and history of architecture, of some hundreds of articles on art and architecture critics.