this is a black currant, it’s more expensive over the hill, be patient a little, don’t rush on the road, just wait. my, under my window, let me admire it, take a walk in the field, i spent my youth when i didn’t see. you’re still dreaming

about something, you’re still waiting for someone, you walked around everything with a twig, waved a green one. summer is my summer, the edge of the warmth of the world.

blackcurrant, dear beyond the hill, don’t be patient for too long, don’t rush on the road, just wait, my dear. under my window, you wait, my dear, under my window.

since ancient times, the icon of the mother of god was considered one of the main shrines, both in numerous churches, so in the houses of ordinary people. they worshiped her and asked her to protect the house from all adversities and misfortunes, to find peace and harmony in the family. what role? the icon plays in the life of the work

of the belarusian stone craftsman oleg popelsky. we are at the factory, where we will get acquainted with works of art embodied in stone. alina nevoina is with you, and this is a fashion for culture. an icon is not only the main symbol in christianity, it is also a work of art, because icons are created like paintings. onto canvas using paints and brushes are applied. saints, do you know what stages the process of painting an icon consists of? regardless of the type of these sacred images, masters and painters must follow certain rules and maintain the accepted sequence when working. the traditional technique of painting an icon has evolved over two millennia; the manufacturing process itself is labor-intensive and lengthy; it all begins with preparing the board, the base, and then applying it. primer,

paints are prepared, gilding is performed, after which the process of icon painting and coating takes place alifa icons, the so-called protective layer. what about icons made of natural italian stone? oleg vitalievich popelsky has been manufacturing unique and one-of-a-kind stone products for more than 30 years. a true work of art is born in its own factory. how icons appeared in the master’s life and why he chose stone out of all natural materials, we’ll find out right now. oleg vitalievich, good afternoon. hello. in the living room of vladislav golubok your exhibition “miraculous kazan icon in stone." and this is a list of kazan icons. at first glance it may seem that the icons are similar, but this is not so. and each icon has its own distinctive features. tell us more about this. our icons are very different,

they have such fundamental differences from paintings, icon paintings. what is their difference? first of all, that it is a stone, this is the nature of the stone, it is unique, in this regard, if you look closely at each icon and try to compare, you will look and find that not a single icon similar to each other, they each in their own way, each in their own way radiates their energy, their warmth, this is how it works internally. energy, the nature of the stone, there is a fundamental difference in this, so to speak, gather all the icon painters together, they will not repeat what we will do as part of our professional activities, working on

the creation of one icon, the point here is that nature itself, it therefore, stones are unique to this material. each time we create a new work, we essentially have a new material, which has its own design, its own color some kind of solution, so we end up with what you found on our icons, the icons are made of natural italian marble stone, why did you choose italian marble, because it is considered one of the most expensive materials, well... let's say , here preference is given to marble because it is a traditional material in stone processing of small architectural forms, it is a very plastic material that can be easily

processed, but i would like to say the following, there is not only marble, you can see there onyx, you can see there, before christmas, there was a book of icons in front of me , and for the first time i saw a three-dimensional icon, because as a stone maker, it was very difficult for me to imagine how it was possible to make a flat icon from stones, such as we see

a traditional one an icon, specifically an icon-painting, a picturesque icon, in a traditional design, that book that lay in front of me, it introduced me to the icon of the blachera mother of god, it was the first icon that i saw in volume, it amazed me. how are these works of art born? this is very painstaking, difficult work. we have different directions of sacred themes and these are orthodox, catholic icons, we have done a lot in understanding. sacred values ​​of judaism, muslims, that is, this was the significant idea of ​​​​creating a museum of sacred values ​​in the stone of multi-religious belarus, your creative piggy bank is not only the image of the faces of saints, but you are also the author

of such a trend as stone homages, so tell us about this in more detail, deeply researching theme of sacred art, i... it began to occur to me that some things need to be popularized in a slightly different way, in particular, when representatives approached me. our jewish belarusian diaspora, they asked to do something within the framework of perpetuating judaism on belarusian soil, here i began to research, of course, literature and so on and so forth, and the idea came to me to modernize the sacred values ​​of judaism, which is almost 6 years old thousands of years, this idea gave me thought. address our famous compatriots, a native of belarus, this is chagall and soutine.

when i was working on the first sacred shrine of judaism in belarus, it is directly related to minsk, this is the first building made of stone in belarus, or rather in minsk, a large cold synagogue, it stood on nimiga, in the sixty-fifth year it was demolished, and.. .its age today is 450 years, when we were working on this sacred shrine and judaism, the idea came to modernize it to show not only the role of the place of jews on belarusian soil, but also how to introduce all our compatriots to what this diaspora on belarusian soil was, it was one of the most significant eastern ones...

we will introduce you to people who have found their calling. in russia there was a master of veterinary sciences, evseenku, who said: “medicine treats humans, veterinarians treat humanity.” we also prepare pharmaceutical products. this is our only one.

study, i have still been living in belarus for 25 years, yes, no one perceived me as a stranger, the first time i came to belarus was in 2011, i came as a tourist, then i met my wife, just everything, the tourist is over, everything after the wife, the tourist is over, the project is a look at belarus, what i like about belarus is... you can raise your children the way

you want. watch on the belarus 24 tv channel . so in the structural unit of the museum of history, theater and musical culture there is a living room. vladislav golubka hosts the exhibition "the miraculous kazan icon in stone". these are about 70 icons made of italian marble in various techniques. carved in relief. flat, engraved, icons in a combination of several stones. by the way, this is the largest collection of these sacred images made in stone in belarus, which has no analogues in the world. each work conveys a canonical version with its own distinctive artistic features, which emphasizes the integrity and

uniqueness of the collection. italian marble combined with semi-precious onyx became real. a find in a great variety of natural materials. onyx has been loved and revered since ancient times. even then people knew about its magical power to heal many diseases, as well as the magical properties of the mineral. the unusual and varied range of shades attracts craftsmen and jewelers all over the world. we will find out what is unique about icons made of stone from the curator of the exhibition, iya borschova. iya, good afternoon. kind. we are located in one of our production showrooms. in this case, we have prepared for you an exhibition based on the painting of the belarusian artist chaim soutine. tell us in more detail about the concept of creating the exhibition? the exhibition was created in stages. every picture

connected with the life circumstances and... situations of chaim sutin himself, who at one time was born in milovechek, and a belarusian artist, left for paris at certain stages of his life, but our leader made a phantasmagoric story that belarus was returning to his homeland , brings his parisian friends and takes him to historical places in belarus. you are the curator of the exhibition the miraculous kazan icon in stone, which takes place in the living room of vladislav golubok. tell me.

the horses are interesting because i created them myself nature, we only framed them, yes, we created volume, relief, but we used only natural stone. the exhibition has been open for several days; there were a lot of visitors at the opening. people come to this exhibition for some deep meanings, to find answers to questions. i don’t think that this is a completely correct way of asking questions in terms of the fact that people go to church for such moments, after all. although our icons are illuminated, they first of all arouse curiosity about what an icon is made of stone, especially one made of italian marble belarusians, so here there is more of an educational question, a question of curiosity, what kind of icon is this? today in belarus, many orthodox churches are named after the icon, among them the church of the kazan icon of the mother of god

in mogilev, the church of the kazan icon in the gomel region, the kazan church in... an icon is an embodied prayer, it is created in prayer, the driving force that is love for god, desire for him as for perfect beauty. these words belong to archimandrite zinon, an outstanding icon painter, clergyman of the russian orthodox church. strive for spiritual beauty, live in harmony with the world and follow fashion trends in the cultural life of our country. alina was with you. remember, being cultural is fashionable, see you in a week, until new cultural meetings.

we meet people worthy of admiration. before getting married, i asked my wife how many children she wants? she says: three, i say: okay, i say, come on, i say, at least, no less, uh, today the lord has had mercy on our family and gave us six children. interest in sports, i just like to run, i like to skate, my mother always went to the skating rink with me as a child, and also?