Beauvais, when I married an artist
to go and a gearbox by profession, I realized
that I needed to live his life, he is an artist,
which means I should become an artist so as
not to be separated from him for a single day, not
for an hour, I began to paint pictures with
oils,
well, they were very good to me local in color
and very rigid, probably the art was
very similar to the art of painting to me
and that’s why he recommended that I take up
fabrics, you see what a beautiful
number of multi-colored pieces of fabric
a woman will look at at them, and on
her own she begins to create something that
could very well be a picture of a rug
something for my children, something for my husband,
something as a gift for my friends, and I
once saw
Yugoslavian accept whists, they
shocked me and became the impetus for
me to start doing
appliques, you see I have pieces of
fabric and at the same time embroidery
combined together whereas the
ancient Russian craftswomen did not have this,
they will only have a background, suppose a
velvet or silk background, and the pieces
of fabric that seemed to me were
made, it turns out that they were not fabrics,
but sewing, sewing was not often imitated, so
they imitated it with gold or silver
threads, we can see the grumbling and which was very
few in Russia they
tried to make overseas costumes from their saints,
they developed certain stitches and
often the imitation was much better than the
fabric itself brought from abroad from
overseas
recently there was a holiday of the intercession of the Bahamas,
this is an amazing holiday, it is celebrated
mainly only in Russia, it is connected with the
fact that the Mother of God stole the
whole of Russia with her cover, maybe you don’t
know that’s what she’s wearing
a cover and and
and she covered the whole country with this cover
and you know my father, I wanted a
real communist, he’s
very happy that he’s a communist but so he
taught me, so to speak, what I
cook with you very lazily Luci anyhere and
the democrats, you know, he often
read Nekrasov’s poems to me from the
jubilant idly chattering encouragingly,
their hands are covered in blood, lead me away to the camp of those who
perish for the great cause of love,
these are the poems they are somehow we went
through our whole life and perhaps after
the war there was very great prosperity,
but my father was a very big
engineer and the family had a lot of
wealth, my mother was a big doctor, but they
always put into my thoughts in general the
same real Christian, I remember
when I was a very active pioneer, my
father came and once told me if someone
hits you on your right cheek, turn your
left cheek and I remember this very well, I
understood that this did not mean being very
weak, but it meant not being like the
person who committed evil, that is,
I was raised in a Christian spirit,
so when I was an adult,
thinking about how I could take
philosophy into life, worldview, which
path to follow, I was very difficult, but I
was clearly drawn to Christianity, you know,
my husband often had moments of despair,
like any artist and it was clear
that he would not live long,
I thought how I could deal with this, and I
created a carpet for him, a very large carpet in
which I predicted and men 99 years old,
of course, less than half of it was lace, but it
helped him live. I would like to take
you to another room to show you
my work and maybe at work a
little more than you can imagine what
sewing and equestrianism are because I take in icons
in my sewing I take not only icons but also
sewing and sculptures I take into account the
ancient Russian church
and of course book illustrations
Alexander Nevsky was the patron saint of
our city and the street is named in honor of
Alexander Nevsky Alexander Nevsky
Lavra
Alexander Nevsky in general was an
amazing prince, these are perhaps the most
wonderful and most beautiful of the princes,
secular literature about Alexander
Nevsky gives us mainly him as a
politician and as a warrior, when did I
have to read the life of Alexander
Nevsky, of course I was shocked by the
personality of this man at the age of three he
was put on a horse at the age of three he began to
study science he knew 4 languages ​​perfectly
I had to read his correspondence with the
Pope who proposed
Catholicism for the adoption of Russia and
I felt in him a very sound mind and
knowledge of religions
not philosophy theology but even this was not
surprising in Alexander Nevsky; his father,
Prince Yaroslav, said that there was nothing
higher for a Russian prince than his honor;
Alexander Nevsky said the honor of the homeland is
higher than princely honor;
I included the image of Alexander Nevsky in a
frame that consists of words; these words
were said by Christ at the last meeting with
his to his disciples he said no, you are not slaves
to me, but friends, and there is no greater love
than if someone lays down his soul for
his friends.
For me, it was important today
to depict only one thing: that Christ
came as light, that with Christ a
different life appeared between people,
iconoclasts and it was such a trend in
theology and not only Russian but also
Greek, most likely even in
Greek, which rejected icons, they
believed that God should be treated without
icons, what is an icon, it’s just a board,
but everything is given according to faith; Pavel
Florensky said that an icon is a window into
space,
that the icon painter only opens this
window,
and for the believer, well, again, by faith, he can
see what the artist will reveal and
whether the artist was successful when the singer opened that
window, and then for me, what I do is
just my prayer
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