can be seen thanks to the documentary photographs of pavel volontsevich, an orthodox photographer batyushkov, whose ministry took place in the vitebsk territories at the beginning of the last century. left a huge number of photos sketches. they were not preserved in paper form from glass negatives, rare photos, prints became available thanks to our contemporary minsk collector dmitry serebrennikov, the digitization of old photographs was carried out by the artist vladimir sutyagin so it turned out an exhibition called cherished. in 2009, glass negatives began to appear on the minsk antique market, exactly the size of glass 9x12 on them. well, it was possible to understand that priests were depicted and there was a signature on the frame of the world, part of the negative was bought. i turned to a priest, father andrey kuzmen. he served in our church. and he looked and said. listen, come on, i'll introduce you to someone who can do something with them, let's go to vladimir sutyagin's. he looked and said. here from this it will be possible to increase the value in the fact that photography hmm