Grekov artist biography

Returning back to print the little-known facts of the biography of the artist M. Excursionists of the Museum House M. Grekov often ask the family and descendants of the family of Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov. There were a lot of Greeks on the Don, Mitrofan Borisovich descendant of the Cossack noble family of the Grekov-Berezovsky. His grandfather Ivan was born in the year that it was installed on a tombstone preserved in the cemetery of the Petrovsky farm, which is three kilometers from the Sloboda Mankovo-Berezovskaya.

In honor of him, the Ivanovka farm was named. One of the beams is called General. The great-grandfather M. Grekova-Boris Alekseevich at the age of 47 received the rank of Major General. In the Ivanovka farm, the Borisov elementary school was preserved, built from the Greek House and named after Boris Ivanovich, father, Mitrofan Borisovich. Boris Ivanovich Grekov was born allegedly in the year, the Cossack of the Milyutinsky village, resigned with the army in the junior officer rank - Horunomi.

After the death of his wife, Boris Ivanovich lived with two children in her poor estate and was engaged in economy. Irina Alekseevna Adamova - an orphan, from a poor, peasant family, at a young age was forcibly married to an elderly Ukrainian Martyshchenko. Not wanting to live with an unloved husband, she ran away from him and hired a nanny to the widow Boris Ivanovich Grekov.

Boris Ivanovich and Irina Alekseevna fell in love with each other, but could only legalize their connection after many years, in the year. Before that, all of their six children were considered illegitimate. Mitrofan was born on June 3, June 15, according to the new style of the year. He was the third child: the older brothers Hippolytus and Terenty, the youngest- Nikolai, Alexander and sister of Evdokia.

In the metric book of the Don Diocese, the Donetsk District of the Ilyinsky Church of the village of Novo-Marievsky-Yanov, there is a record of the illegitimate son of the soldier's wife Irina Alekseevna Martyshchenko about those born over the year. Even the middle name Mitrofan received by the name of his godfather- peasant Pavel Ilyich Skorobogatov. And only by the decision of the Novocherkassk District Court of November 18, the children of Boris Ivanovich and Irina Alekseevna received the right to bear the name of their own father.

It was a very joyful and solemn event for the whole family. Boris Ivanovich died in a year, after a serious illness. The unlawed, after the revolution of the year, the civil war scattered Grekov’s family on various warring parties. Hippolytus and Nikolai fled from their native places when the Reds occurred, whether they survived no one knows. Terenty Borisovich lived with his family in Donetsk, worked as an engineer at the mine.

His daughters Elena and Tatyana were childless. Mitrofan Borisovich with his wife Antonina Leonidovna also had no children. The only descendants of this glorious Cossack family live abroad. These are the children, grandchildren and great -grandchildren of Alexander Borisovich Grekov, who emigrated along with the Volunteer Army in the year and settled in Canada. This will be the next story.

The publication uses materials from the museum archive and studies of the local historian Art. Milyutinka, now the deceased, Prikhodko Nikolai Ivanovich.