several of his poems here in this monastery, unfortunately, neither the wooden monastery nor the church survived, although the latter stood until the mid-90s. our church was the church of the holy intercession, wooden, there were three of them in ukraine, and exactly this architecture, such a wooden one, without a single nail, without anything, in 1995, due to the inattention of the father, the electricity went out. fly and went there on a call, and the church burned down. the church was rebuilt on the same place, but not made of wood, and they decided to establish the ukrainian slobitka ethnographic museum nearby. from the neighboring village was brought to mlyn, there were almost no old houses left in good condition, but enthusiasts took part of three dilapidated houses and made one. they brought it all here and put it together and made one house out of two houses. oh, the sun is here.

it will be cool now, come on in, there are two rooms in this house, in one bedroom there is a bed that is more than 100 years old, embroidery by local craftsmen, household items, but the most interesting thing here is the living room, the main room of the house, which is called the living room, this is the living room, the sun come up, it's sunrise here, the sun has risen in the house, you can see but, you can see, you can see, you can see, and the west went into the house, what, the light, that’s why this house was called the light house, now you will know, yes, this wall goes to the north, the cold wall itself, it goes to the north, it’s not necessary from the target , nothing was blowing anywhere, here people were sleeping, here guests were cooking, here children were sleeping, old people, the chechka was drowning, it was heating up and it was warm everywhere. often, folk architecture, which at

first glance cannot surpass the work of architects, can actually be more comfortable for life, because when building a home for yourself from scratch, a person first of all wondering where the sun rises and sets, where it blows in the winter, and where it floods when it rains . good architecture is not necessarily made with the participation of an architect, but very often, but... there are cities that arose with incredible skill, which to this day are such tourist centers, attractions and listed in unesco, well, these cities yemen, the maghreb, or the spanish old cities there are very much like córdaba, for example. uh, or

amsterdam, that’s exactly amsterdam, more than what we see on all these postcards, it ’s just done without architects, there are an exception, there is a certain state institution, in most of them it was simply such an understanding of certain principles that were passed down from hand to hand for generations, and this... there were such rather good engineering and technical solutions that were based on those resource opportunities that were nearby and some such certain social structures, and that is why ukrainian vernacular architecture is the same as with borscht, and he has hundreds of recipes and they are very dependent on these recipes. and what

grows in the garden in this area. it is interesting how people used to create comfortable housing without having almost nothing but the knowledge passed down through the generations and the materials that were at hand. here in the house there was a large collection of gas lamps, since there was no electricity then, candles were expensive. today, due to a power outage, the museum's exhibits unexpectedly came in handy for the residents of pysarivka. they come to me, they say: you will borrow for a while, while there is no light, if there is no light, i say, i borrowed, a receipt, three, i borrowed, a receipt, yes, they buy gas, yes, and that it works, a normal lamp, i wonder how museums simply preserve time, and how strange it is sometimes to immerse yourself in history and draw parallels with today, if cossacks once lived in piserivka and had to protect the russian empire from the tatars, now here... from russia, because only 15 km

away the border, and during the recording of this interview, we heard artillery fire again and again, bugka, you know, it's not bugging yet, it's not bugging yet. bahka, when the bases tremble, then bangs, then it’s scary, honestly, it gets scary, but people have survived when they fly overhead, i myself see how a rocket flies, then the air defense stopped, an explosion and they fly apart, pieces fly in the field, fighter jets fly by, low, so scary, i bend down to the ground, well , we still imagine that there are people there in the basements, and then there, god, it’s terrible, for 20'.

yes, you can't wage war like that, it's just not possible , i don't know, there are no words, i don't want to, how it is every day, you understand, you come home, one thing, you'll go somewhere, the other thing, somewhere you try to distract yourself, i'm saying, here come here, look, and thank god, everything is fine, everything is fine so far, everyone in piserivka perfectly understands who is shelling ukrainian cities and why, in that nearby historical museum, which leonid also takes care of, next to the stand... about the terrible holodomor, there are still portraits of lenin. we saw the same picture for a second in the ethnographic museum of the village of artyukhivka. well, this is the ethnographic museum, where

there are many references to lenin, lenin, brezhnev. i thought something about ukrainian culture. about ukrainian culture. a. although we came to artyukhivka to find old shacks under the roof, in which people still live, we saw a completely different picture, namely expensive villas with swimming pools and expensive cars parked nearby, location to kharkiv itself, if you have a car, it is 40 minutes and you can go already in kharkiv, a pioneer, if, it was the former governor of the kharkiv region, this is dobkin, if you went the idea that this is kharkiv, switzerland, i don't know there, rublevka, baden-baden, traditional

local architecture, of which until recently there was a lot in artyukhivka, is being destroyed, and new villas are being built based on or simply. to one's own taste, or at best to foreign ones samples, if you look at some new buildings there, some chalets, what is happening there, some mediterranean villas, something, people are clearly working on that exotic copy-paste, and you know, as a rule, people speak this other language, no understanding this language, it is so certain there is some kind of globalization, but it must have some limit, as a rule, this folk architecture, it cooperates very well with landscapes, when

you put it like a plant from some meadow and somewhere in a vase, something is not right, well, for example, somewhere in switzerland or there in austria, and maybe there in finland. it was constantly somehow transformed there, but based on these certain traditional techniques, technologies, resources and everything else, and today there is almost nothing left of the authentic clay artichoke, the clay has gone into the ground, ecological local materials have been replaced by more functional modern ones, however, the village still has houses in which they continue... life under the roof, tuk-tok, good day, good day, good day, eh, and we wanted to ask you about your house, because we are looking for such houses, old ones, that were left there under attic

under the reeds, the house, my parents bought it after the war, who built it, how it was built back in the 50s, it is there, you see, now... the baby has been there for a long, long time, it was at one time it is obvious that these houses were built, apart from tradition. valuable clay plasters in the north of slobozhanshchyna, to this day you can also find interesting examples of wooden architecture, because there was a small pool like this and a fountain, and here and there the fish swam, and here it was like this , right up to the road, the alley was well-kept, well, in in general , there was a fairy tale, and now look carefully indicate what is written lk, you see. this is a wooden estate, dated 1880,

built by a german named leopold koenich. he was a very successful entrepreneur who in the 19th century had a parquet factory, distilleries, brick and sugar factories in slobozhanshchyna, and he built this house just for the head of the sugar factory. it’s all upstairs already... or the manager, and the servants lived all downstairs, there in the basement, all the rooms were such that they lived there, cooked food, washed clothes, everything was done there downstairs, only upstairs there were fireplaces, it was warm, this house was brought all the way from karelia, we do not have such types of trees, the bottom was made, one row was made of oak. but the kareian pine is all gone, all that we have, all

the architecture somewhere inside our borders, it is all ukrainian architecture, it can be somehow austro-hungarian, i don’t know, polish, from which other empires, soviet, but it is all ukrainian architecture and... it should not be given to someone, but this is all our heritage, and everything that happened happened, and we also took part in it in different ways, and ways and that's all, it's all ours, it must be preserved. the house has a difficult history: in 1917, the bolsheviks came, the kenichs managed to emigrate, and the estate was remodeled. they built a so-called fzo school, factory factory training, and it existed until

1975, in 1977 they started distributing it to people so they could live, apartments were given, i was born here in guta, lived here, went to school, finished everything at the factory i built a factory when i distributed the same apartments, and i have been living here for 40 years. in soviet times, the large rooms of the estate 60 km were distributed among the factory workers, the interiors have changed, but something from the past life of the house has remained, you see how high we are, look at the molding, look at the edges, what molding, and here, here are the fireplaces through which it was warm, there is a chimney, well, i already have a little of them, about kiyiv, and not white marble, well, i heat it here, if with wood, then

it goes here, and that's why you see such rooms. with the beginning of a full-scale war, the apartment became a home for a large family, children and grandchildren came to live with their parents. the place has become temporary a shelter for immigrants who also came here as families, taking cats and dogs from home. the basement, in which a servant lived during the time of the king, was used as a bomb shelter. well, you see, there were windows, they were tampered with, of course, here you can see below , nevertheless, there were windows, windows, windows, windows were tampered with, yes, a servant lived here, well, i will now find out, well, here, now we have settled down , well, this is the war, we stocked up on gas, so there is, well, we stocked up on firewood, we are thinking of everything case look at the ceilings, there’s a bomb here, you see,

they prepared a friend of this, hap, here, well, yes, that’s it not only one, they took it, there was a stove, you see, there is a room, there is a room, there are rooms, there are three rooms, and here is the fourth, there were four rooms here, maybe four families live, i don’t know, in that the part where people live, the house is somehow supported, the other side is slowly collapsing, because the owner of the apartment is... abroad, he does not sell the apartment, but he does not repair it, a few years ago a brick extension was made to the house, which now has a bathroom and kitchen, arrange your life in such a way as to simultaneously have... comfort and at the same time preserve the authentic look of the estate there are no funds, what we support ourselves is what is supported, no one gives anything to anyone, the roof was covered in the 60s, some hole was patched, patched, well, we support ourselves, mostly people live here now, i am a pensioner, i have been here for 10 years ,

the same pensioners also live here, well, who is here and what will happen? does, in my opinion, she should be protected much more than she is now, you know, it's like with elderly people, they, they are very difficult to look after them, it's a very large amount of medicine, i don't know, some different things, and that, but we we do because we are grateful. for their lives, for which they gave us, and also from this same architecture, well, for example, in many countries there is a special additional state funding, well, for example, if you have an old house, there is a certain one, i don’t

know , pensions, scholarships, and those that are given to support it. they came there, a lot of people came there for an excursion, they looked at this house, and everyone said: "oh, it needs to be protected, oh, it needs to be done with it, everything is needed, everyone is indignant that such a house, no one, no one needs it, after learning about our interest in ancient..." samples of local architecture, local residents advised us to visit the nearby village of pavlivka, where a hundred-year-old wooden school has been preserved and is not only preserved, but also successfully working. this school was built in 1906, and the customer from siberia, who ordered this school to build it, brought it here, and this school

was built without a single whistle. this building was financed by the same. who was a patron and looked after the development of the region. our school suffered great grief from the lessons of the great patriotic war, because it was here that the stable, the fascist stable, was located, and when the village was liberated, then people began to rebuild this school with their own efforts, and parents, students, and the students and teachers themselves, brought the school back to normal. independently restored the school, it was preserved in its authentic form for a very long time and only in the last 30 years were the wooden roof and windows replaced. what is nice, they are proud of their school here, no they want it to be like everyone else, they don't want to cover it with bricks or sew it with clapboard, and it happens so much that if someone

they know there comes to visit, they definitely come, take pictures here, see if there really is such a school here and if it really is here yes. we do not live one day, one life, we try to make our school flourish, be beautiful, so that students go to this school with great pleasure. the students are proud of the school, and the school is proud of the students, everything is as it should be. and the participants of the ato were also our students of our school, these are ustinov, shcherbak, and kupovyh, and of course these guys are ours now. and the sandpiper artem, now these guys protect the borders of ukraine also from the rashists. every time, when traveling with expeditions, we

are most fascinated by people who do not want to leave their village or town as soon as possible. somewhere further, but they stay and develop their own, well, we built this wall, we had nine people then, well, look, all the surnames of those who worked here on this wall are from me, i i am of course this one i sketched the wall, stood up and told her that you will make a pink flower, that one makes leaves, that one, that one, and so we worked out amicably, beautifully and very quickly, that how to do this, we started working. early and late, but they did it. well, my task was to make the composition so that it was... unique, so to speak, in each work, you see, here we have birds, there is a rooster, there are viburnums and so on, this was our main

goal , so to speak - will decorate the center of petrykivka with these wonderful works of ours. petrykivka - a unique place on the map of ukraine. it is unique in that not only a special local painting has been preserved here. it is still developing at a frantic pace. he lives and works here. a large number of modern masters who are constantly teaching the next generations. petrykiv painting appeared as a decoration of a peasant home. those who had the best in the house were called chepurushkas. our clays were of different colors, and juices, berries, there, flowers, leaves, all this was used together with, with an egg, that is, it was taken or protein. a painting was created on the yolk, simple elements, but this there was already a mural.

petrykivka itself was founded in 1772, in 1772, there were already eyes, so to speak, small for work , someone started, did, and all the time it was polished, polished, until bright craftsmen appeared. petryakivska's mistress wanted to have a petryakiv ornament in her house, of course, as they say, we petryakiv people have a house like a church. but not all housewives had the same knack for drawing, so artists or poor women also created, as they said then, little drawings, small drawings for sale. cattle were driven through peterkivka, grain was traded there. and at the same time, since there were many people, it was possible to sell all kinds of chrome, all kinds of products, and now these women, with the appearance of papers, began to draw

such strips in order to decorate the bastard and such leaflets that were attached to the komen mirror, then they knew how to do it more elegantly to do, there were hundreds of them. the phenomenon of the petrykiv painting arose here for a reason, the fact is that the village was sleepy. not by the cossacks, it was a free woman who had never been of serfdom, people who were freedom-loving fled here, these are people who did not like oppression of any kind, but they fled, since there was no serfdom here, they settled and survived on what they owned, besides, petrykyvka had a favorable location, at the crossroads of important trade routes, where huge fairs were held four times a year, there were high places... someone was weaving, someone was cutting wood, or wickerwork, or straw, or drawing, but everyone survived in their own way, and that's why all the people here were

creative, creativity is spirituality, that a highly spiritual settlement, we can say that if the first drawings were simply brought to fairs to be exchanged for something else or sold, then later they began to turn to female artists with orders, craftsmen appeared who actually became... the founders of petrikovsky painting, this is tetyana pata . this work was created with the first factory paints, aniline, therefore it has survived to our time. at some point, the people... professional artists, one of whom was oleksandr stativa, became interested in art. in 1936, he founded a school of decorative painting for

young people in petrykivka. he took tatiana yakymivna pata, one of those artists who were the first chipurushkas, who - well, as it were, distinguished themselves at the fair with their best drawings, as the teacher of the petrykiv painting. since. the number of masters in petrykivka increased, men also appeared among them, and painting began to develop at previously unseen rates and is still developing. every school has petrykiv painting circles, there is also a circle in the house of children's creativity. senior classes, we have industrial training, and at this industrial training, children master the elements of petryakov painting. if you wish , you can also become a professional master at... a special school, which is located right here in petrykivka. children from lviv, kyiv, and donetsk studied with me, petrykyvka will learn, it is necessary only in petrykyvka. here

it arose, here it was born, here they must learn. approach to learning and the spread of the petrykiv painting continues to grow in scale. there are museums, schools, festivals, special literature and even prescriptions where children learn to reproduce individual elements of painting. in this place, where we are still located, we always have a miracle flower every year in the month of september. craftsmen from all over petrykivka come here. it is interesting that, thanks to the festival, the painting still lives in its authentic environment, the walls of petrikyvka buildings. masters have been painting the village with their compositions for 14 years. when we were the first fence, the first we painted this one, and people pass by and say, well, what are you painting, they will smear it, they will urinate on it, for which it is only labor and translation, and we stand like this, i think, when the young guys go and.. .

they stood and said, oh, thank you so much for drawing this, and one kneeling, i say, what about you, he yes, yes, i say, no one will pee, no one will draw, since the youth said that it is very it's good that they like it, until today no one wrote anything there, nor did anything, thanks to the masters administration of the village, 10 years ago the petrykiv painting was included in the intangible heritage of unesco, and we were just painting this wall. when the representatives came to the devutsvit, those who had to vote in the youth, they worked with us on some elements on this wall, for example, look, here is a berry, there is a berry somewhere, the voting process was not easy, but in 2013, 600 experts from 95 countries of the world voted for the petrykiv painting. how do we

know that this is the petrakiv painting? first, they draw only in our painting a cat's brush, a brush made of cat's hair is called, it is this brush that gives that unique smear that distinguishes our painting from others. onion, sedge, these are flowers that you will not find in other paintings, and... many of us paint viburnum, it is a symbol of girlish, feminine beauty, oak leaves, it is a cossack symbol, male strength, courage, by the way, a bird is a symbol of goodness, happiness, peace, comfort, well, that is, a lot of elements of our painting have their own sacred meaning, and why were the walls above the doors painted, there were friezes above the window, because people believed that this beauty... she will not

let evil into the house. among the flowers are older birds-parents, well, it's like a family and their children, chicks, it is believed that even the buds on the flowers are future children. petrikovsky painting is a complex technique

that requires a high level of skill, and if today in order to master this technique, just desire and perseverance are enough, 50 years ago it was not easy to learn to be an artist in the village. i had my first impression of a painting around the age of three, when my neighbor-grandmother was repairing her hut, oil painting and took off all these drawings of what our streets were like and gave them to me. this was such an enemy, well, i was young, for me it was the enemy of those tapes, and all painted brightly, i had never seen such a thing in my life, or life was after the war, i was from the year 57, i was just in the tenth heaven from something, i remember idusi, then i had a strong first impression of beauty, i early started copying those drawings, as much as i liked them.