this gallery is only a small part of the wooden icons of the master valery petinsky, the faces of thet 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 him call his wooden creations, icons or spiritual panels. having taken up such unusual creativity many years ago, he still cannot stop, for example, nikolai, this one, i sat down, i could not tear myself away from him, i was whole. it’s hard to place this hand, i have it every day i made this joint, well, for