valery fitinsky himself, a woodcarving master from the small town of derechin in the grodno region, ae time, like many villagers, went to the big city for money and success, but years later returned to his small homeland, it was here, according to him in my own words, i finally found it myself. this gallery is only a small part of the wooden icons of the master valery petinsky, the faces of the saints are not at all similar to those that can usually be seen on icons or reproductions, and well , of course, he himself... hides, in fact he creates copies, but the faces on his works turn out very realistic, some saints look sternly and even sternly, some look painfully and mercifully, many are frightened and even alarmed by such realism, people are used to it and see the same icons or something drawn, pictures there, postcards some something, here it comes and nikolai practically looks you in the eye. such, there are those, valery admits, who are fundamentally against calling his work icons in the full sense of the word, but for the master himself it is not so important what those around