remained largely unknown only in his native tbilis, if not for russian artists, avant-garde artists, tyu the danevichi brothers, kirill and ilya, it was they who took his works to an exhibition in moscow in 1913. for 3 days the shaman does not eat animal food , after waiting for a special phase of the moon, he begins the ritual, leading the sacrificial animal to the heavenly chambers, the shaman tans its skin, selects a tree for the beater and beater, a willow, cedar, sound, arrows, a knife, from the outside , symbols of the three worlds, heavenly, earthly, underground, signs of the great cycle of life. a graduate of the surikov school, boris molchanov, was one of those for whom academic education became the beginning of the return. the heroes of his paintings are reindeer herders, hunters, fishermen, living nature often penetrated into the artist’s paintings, wood and bone, suede and leather, worn out, smoked by the centers of summer plagues, flesh from the flesh of his native land, revelation, an encounter with a miracle. the same revelation was for vladimir arsenyev, a researcher of t