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when I married an artist, although I am an
editor by profession, I realized that I
need to live his life. And he is an artist,
which means I must become an artist so as
not to be separated from him for a single day or
for a single
hour, I became pictures to paint with oil Well,
I had them very local in color
and very hard, probably
the art of painting didn’t quite resemble art 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 begin
to create something in her mind on its own. something that could very well
be a picture
rug something for my children something
for my husband something as a gift for my
friends and I once saw Yugoslav
primitivism
so that I started making
appliqués You see I have pieces of
fabric and at the same time time,
embroidery is combined together while the
ancient Russian craftswomen did not have this,
they only had a background, let’s say a Velvet
or Silk background, and the pieces of fabric that
seemed to me were made, it
turns out it was not fabric but sewing, sewing.
They often imitated. So
they imitated damage with gold or silver threads,
apparently which was very small. In
Russia, in the form of overseas costumes, they
tried to make something like them from their saints;
they developed
certain stitches and often imitation.
It was much better than the fabric itself
brought from the border from the sea. Recently there was a
feast of the Intercession of the Mother of God, this is an
amazing holiday, it is celebrated
mainly only in Russia it is connected with the fact
that the Mother of God covered the whole of
Russia with her Veil. Maybe you don’t
know this is what she is wearing. Her
Veil and she covered the
whole country with this Veil and you know my father,
although he is a real Communist, he is very
happy that he is a communist Well, he taught
me very much, so to speak, what the
revolutionaries taught him, a democrat, you
know, he often read Nekrasov’s poems to me, for example,
from jubilant
hands in blood Take me to the camp of those
who perish for the great cause of love, these are the
poems they somehow went through my whole
life and cart of the village of Volo
Bolshoye Well, my father was a very
big engineer and the family had a
lot of wealth and my mother was a big
doctor, but they all the time put into me
thoughts, in general, the most real
Christian ones. I remember when I was a very
active pioneer,
then my father came and once told me
if you get hit on the right cheek, turn
your left cheek. I remember this very well and I
understood that this did not mean being very
weak. And this meant not becoming like a
person who committed evil, that is,
I
was raised in in the Christian spirit, therefore,
when I am an
adult, thinking about what kind of
philosophy in life I should take,
what path to take in life, what path to take I am very not simple, but
clearly.
You know, my husband often had
moments of despair. Well, like any
artist, and he was sure that he would not
live long. I thought How can I
fight this? I created a carpet for him, a very
large carpet in which I give him a chance to live for
99 years. Of course he lived
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I would like to take you to another room
to show my works there and
maybe at the works you can imagine even more clearly
what it is sewing
icons in my sewing I take not
only icons but also sewing but also sculpture
I take into account ancient Russian church and
of course book illustrations Alexander
Nevsky was a patron
and the street is named in honor of Alexander
Nevsky Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Alexander Nevsky in general was an
amazing prince, this is 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 I
had to read the life of Alexander
Nevsky, I was of course shocked by the
personality of this man.
He was put on a horse at the age of 3, he began
to study science, he knew perfectly well beyond the
language I had to read his correspondence with the
Pope, who proposed that
Russia should accept Catholicism, and one
could sense in him a very sound mind and
knowledge of religion and philosophy and theology.
But even this was not surprising in Alexander; there was
nothing higher for a Russian prince than his
honor. Alexander Nevsky said the honor of the
Motherland 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 in the last meeting with his
disciples, he said No, you are not my slaves,
but my friends, and there is no greater love than that of a
soul Who lays down his soul for
his friends was important to me
today to depict only one thing,
that Christ came as light, that with Christ a
different life appeared between
people, iconoclasts And this was such a
movement In theology And not only Russian
but also Greek, more likely even in
Greek, who rejected icons, they
believed that God should be treated without
icons What is an icon? It’s just a board,
but everything is given. Believe him. Pavel
Florinsky said that an icon is a window
into space, that the icon painter only
opens this window, and the believer is given,
again by faith, to see what the
artist revealed and whether the icon painter successfully
opened this window. and then for
me what I do is just My
prayer
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