chastyakov, professor imperial academy. this phrase: first according to talent, in the middle it’s stupid, finish according to talent, yes, and i also i liked it, sometimes with a needle, and sometimes with a broom , yes, that is, this is what he constantly quoted, my aspirations or my deviations into some kind of artistic world were first of all supported by my mother, because at one time she herself dreamed of entering the academy of arts, but at that time... they didn’t really want to admit women and girls to the academy, that is, there was huge, firstly, competition, there were, i don’t know, there were 50 people per place, but a huge number of students tried to enter and accepted primarily boys , because among well the teaching staff was , well, i don’t know the stereotype, that this is a male profession, a woman should be... in the family, give birth and cook, so to speak, they, it seems to me , did not want to be scattered on some kind of thing, they wanted, if you cook artists, then it is necessary to train male art