and today our guest is the general director of the national art museum , anna kononova. noon, anna vladimirovna. hello. we are glad to see you in our studio. in interviews, you insist that you are an artist first and foremost, but now time has passed. piles of documents have you completely lost your passion and love for the craft? first of all, i'm an artist, that's true. i came into the world of a creative family, my mother is a professional painter, my father is a professional sculptor, while pregnant with me, my mother painted large enough spaces, did paintings, this is such a warm memory of her, including of course me i am very grateful to life, fate and god for the school that i went through, the vocational school, my teachers, such a serious path and such a serious experience, of course, did not just happen in my life, i felt art, i understand it now as a calling, and the fact that such a complex path has been given is already a path that has been given from above, it is given to everyone differently, well, that’s it. this is your test, yes, we’ll talk about what di