covered during expeditions, these are probably dozens of settlements that were visited in search of malyavankicourse, hundreds of meetings with people with whom... we had conversations in which they learned about which artists were in their villages in the thirties and fifties, and often people, some remembered these artists, named their names, but it turned out that the majority, of course, were not famous authors, time passed, people who were ordered at one time, these carpets passed away, and children and grandchildren, naturally, might not know who created this or that carpet, dyvan malyavana, in russian - this is a painted carpet, what they were for and why appeared, appeared, of course, not just so by chance, they simply appeared as a continuation of the paintings, kufrs, chests that were already at the end of the 19th century, at the beginning of the 20th, found in the villages of belarus, a continuation of those patterns that we can see on the beds in different regions, uh, that were woven and most often there were scenes that we still see on our carpets, here these are various bouquet