gomel on ragachovo closed the borders of three lands, the lands of drygovich and razimic and krivichay, and then the principalities of smalensky, chernigov and turvopinsky principalities. unique architectural monuments await you. the famous russian art critic georgy lukkomsky, having visited the palace in 1913 , wrote: this is one of the richest estates in the russian empire. and the most interesting historical facts: queen. bonasfor, visiting your lands, advedala ragachou, advedala his castle, which is known here to close the mountains, not far away, all and adamryla founder of the cathedral, various organizations. the photograph, measuring 42 by 94 cm, was made using the contact method in 1903, and only four such photographs are known in the world. watch in the program of the city of belarus on the tv channel belarus 24. each of the heroes.

project is doing important work. the chief custodian of funds is an earthly profession, very responsible. our team is working to collect and preserve materials about the past for the sake of the future. we will introduce you to people who have found their calling. i am deputy director of the republican nalibox landscape reserve. conservation of nature is important for all of us, since we all depend on the environment, which... we suggest spending one day with specialists to learn all about the intricacies of their work. welcome to our palace, the item comes here for temporary protection, then the question of its acceptance into the museum is permanently decided by the stock-purchasing commission. we specially turned it upside down, the skull is about 2000 years old, and traces of a bear were visible there.

it’s rude to go there today on an excursion, but here it is what?

watch on tv channel belarus 24. the faces of saints from its wooden icons seem to look into the soul , you can’t hide from such a look, you can’t hide, people are used to seeing the same icons or something, they’re drawn, pictures here, postcards there, something or other , and then he comes and nikolai practically looks you in the eye, he never taught you anywhere. the art of woodworking, he creates absolutely stunning works, equally deftly, handling miniature chisels with huge chainsaws, i have three of them, and all of different sizes, one i make cuts there, the second is the sawing, the third is the carving, i see what should be done, well, i see an almost finished thing, so i start choosing unnecessary parts, that’s all, the main thing is that he dreams that the person who... sees

his creation will want to buy them for himself, he experienced the same emotions that he himself experienced during work. if i cut something, i put part of myself into it, because well, well, how could it be otherwise, it’s not just like that, i took the board with a plank, i even need to feel it, myself. valery fitinsky, woodcarving master from the small town of derechen in grodno region, a man who at one time, like many... villagers , went to the big city for money and success, but years later returned to his small homeland, it was here, in his own words, that he finally found himself.

this gallery is only a small part of the wooden icons of the master valery fittinsky. the faces of the saints are not at all similar to those that can usually be seen on icons or reproductions. it is understandable; the material itself dictates the technique of execution. well, in the picture it’s 2d, that’s right, but in this work it’s already 3d it turns out because i’m doing something that’s not on the icon, that is, the sides aren’t visible, you know , and it’s much more difficult, i just have to figure it out myself... for example, on one of the sides it’s just on the written icon, it’s not there . valery does not hide, in fact , he creates copies, but the faces in his works turn out to be very realistic. some saints look sternly and even sternly,

some suffer and mercifully. for many , such realism is frightening and even alarming. people are used to seeing the same icons or something they are drawn, pictures there. there are some postcards, something, here, and then nikolai comes and practically looks you in the eye, like that, there are others like that - admits valery, who is fundamentally against calling his works 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, and kons or spiritual ponnos, having taken up such unusual creativity many years ago, he cannot stop... until now, let’s say nikolai, this one, i sat down, i i couldn’t tear myself away from it, i sat and cut all day, well, somewhere it took me one and a half to two days to do it, there were moments like that, let’s say you start making an icon, now half

of it is done, but she doesn’t seem to let me in or something, i don’t know, if i cut something, i put a part of myself into it, because well, well, how could it be otherwise? it’s not just like that, i took the board, touched it there, i even need to feel it myself. valery works in a small workshop at the derechen house of crafts. he has a partner, also a well-known woodworker mikhail grintsevich throughout the area. together they can take on almost any, even large complex work, create a huge ponno or carved chest. mikhail is an expert in cutting out geometric patterns, and valery is more likely. specializes in volumetric work. by the way, with experience i came to the understanding that it is better to cut icons not from a single piece of wood, but to create them from several layers. it now consists of three parts, this is the first background, this is the first board, the face is glued onto it.

nikolai, here is the third one - this is a book, this is glued, here the hand will also be glued up to create more volume. yes, that is.... it will be three -level, let's say, for each job the master has his own tools: jambs, chisels, knives, cranberries, most are not purchased, valery says, a real master always makes a tool for himself, this is soviet steel, they once cut the rails at some factory and it is very good, so i take it from somewhere, i made this joint, well, three scratches, well, the most difficult thing is to place the hand. my fingers were cut every day when i just started, somewhere in there you will damage it, but now we mainly make the incisors to suit our personal, well, arm , that is, so that it sits in the hand, everyone has a different hand, that’s right, mikhail is valery’s

mentor, friend, and colleague, many people around him are surprised by this, two masters, each with their own view, approach, with their own opinion, how do they get along together, and even manage... they even rebuke us, what are you cutting together? well, why can’t we work together, we can’t do this thing together, well , we can’t cut sculptures together, on the contrary, it’s more interesting, he starts doing something, so even, i’m already older, i say, well, what are you doing, well, what are you doing, but in the end it turns out to be a masterpiece, you know, in general, this is all the more surprising, considering that valery never studied as a carver, and not just minor work, where skills and handling of a huge number of special tools are needed, but also one that requires completely different professional qualities must be given to a good person, the wooden sculptures of valery and mikhaiv were ordered at the beginning by the local administration, next to the house

of crafts there was an empty ancient park, the remaining since the time of the famous sobek family, two friends and woodworkers took up the task of arranging it. using an ordinary saw to cut an artistic sculpture out of wood is not an easy task, even for a professional, well, this is imaginative thinking, i see that you should already have an almost, well, practically finished thing. i see that i’m starting to select unnecessary parts, here’s another thing, here the volume is completely different, and you have to carry the saw all day, so it’s not easy here, i’ll say, but with saws, it’s not just one saw i’ve seen, i have three of them, and all different sizes, i make one there for saws, the second is over saws, the third is a carving, sculptures have appeared in the park, now many of them are covered with snow, but in the summer the park comes to life, children run here, couples walk, with mikhail they put huge wooden chess of their own creation in the yard, trying in every way to bring it into

the old village of two-creativity navisnye. i’m always looking for what i want to do, you surf the internet, you surf, you look for something, you found something, you got excited and went to do it, for me it’s more important that let’s say some... child or someone went and then the same thing suddenly i can do this, just try this, suddenly i can do it, that’s what i did everything for. he still wonders what zigzags fate had to make to bring him to his current point. fittinsky himself comes from derechin, but like most young people, he dreamed of leaving the village for a big city, and he had such an opportunity. he could easily have entered the then institute of physical education in minsk. i came. well, a tired guy who had never been anywhere, came, and there

was an anthill, there were people there, i honestly i got scared, it was just some kind of thing, or it wasn’t mine, or it was just me, i just felt somehow wild, and i gathered my aunts then, what am i saying, i didn’t have a classification book, they don’t give them to us, i they just gave me a diploma, and i couldn’t even imagine that i would move to the capital after all. valery worked hard during the day, worked in the evenings as a carpenter in one of the capital’s cinemas, and at night painted pictures for the soul, that’s where valery for the first time i saw the work of one of my colleagues who was interested in wood carving, i decided try and this activity seemed to become an outlet for him. then a difficult divorce took place in his life. valery recalls that if it were n’t for creativity, he could have just done it. and then fate throws him another test, he gets into a terrible car accident

, i barely survived, i lay on stretch marks for probably a month, i was in hospitals and at home for probably a month or a month and a half, i also couldn’t get up, but it was a shame to become disabled for the rest of my life, well, i picked myself up, i can still walk on my feet, valery believes that this is his miraculous salvation it’s not a coincidence, maybe she pushed me to do what i’m doing now, maybe she was protecting me, maybe on the contrary, something happened because of her, after all these tests, valery took a completely different look at his life and realized that he was not wants to participate more in the pursuit of the benefits of the big city, one day the director of the school, my ex, no longer met him, says: valera, where are you, i say, in minsk. he’s in minsk , and didn’t even ask where i work, where what,

the main question is that i’m in minsk, all questions immediately disappeared, where am i, what am i, maybe i’m in the yard some, maybe someone, there were no such questions, the main thing was in minsk, but i was never sick with it, it didn’t matter to me, after all, i was always drawn here, always drawn to my homeland, valery returns to his native village and completely surrenders to his beloved craft, as soon as he looks on the internet and sees a work that sinks into the soul, he gets down to business without any fear, although he has never done anything like this before, but carved wooden icons for him become something completely separate, especially i want to give a person at least the slightest something, because now there is already very little faith, to give at least a little something to a person so that, for example, he is even afraid that he looks at this icon, perhaps it is something

will protect him, at least he will become a little better in some way, better, at least the person will change a little in some of his understandings or in his way of life, this is good, leaving behind life in a big city, returning to his homeland, valery looked at his life again, there was time for internal introspection, why he fate... it turned out exactly this way, we were plowing all the time, throughout my childhood , i felt sorry that the children were on vacation, they played football there, they swam in the river, we had nothing, we just had to help our parents . to work somehow, to earn some money, to rise up somehow, i have, since childhood, such a stereotype has been created that you need to prove something to someone, well, what kind of guy like me in the past can growing up to be a guy like me now means that not everything in life can turn out so bad,

right, that means maybe you can become someone, and be shown on tv when you’re a person. in the past, who stood bent over in the field all his life, all his childhood , now shows on tv, you know, how people’s stereotypes are broken when he doesn’t sleep at night creating his wooden icons, and then he sees how strong the reaction is from people when they see his work , for valery, this is the best reward, some say, i have something like this, i have something like this, the other one will really be heartbroken. he doesn't even tell her to anyone won’t show it, he’ll just walk and pray to her, that’s all, for him it’s just an icon, not some kind of luxury item or something, it shouldn’t even be like that, while there are debates around him about whether his works should be considered real icons or call them artistic panels, he just smiles silently, he knows, this is not the main thing

, human faith is important, a person needs an icon... in order for him to come, yes, i did something bad here, now i’ll pray everything, deep in the heart, if a person is a believer, he will do nothing wrong, right, and he will come to the icon with a completely different person, and who, for example, has messed up, or done something bad, he will come in order to justify himself to himself, so i went and it’s as if everything should be forgiven to me, faith has become much less, now i have people, and even for him... if i sell my icon, if a little person buys it, even just a little, to fix it, it’s not in vain that i worked, it means it’s not in vain that i sat, right, at least for a little bit, valery fitinsky , a woodcarver from a small town derechen, to fully reveal his talent, it took him many years, he

lived in the capital, built a career, earned a lot of money, but only after returning to his role... he realized that it doesn’t matter where in the world you are, the main thing is how you feel about yourself you feel that if you have something you love, and the results of your work leave no one indifferent, then you are in the right place.