standing there, but what is standing here now at the moment is a competitive portrait... work for byus alisher which at one time was not realized, but nevertheless, i immediately conceived it as a creative work and did it in the material, this - i don’t think he knew for sure that he would be a sculptor, and i didn’t think, he just got busy, he painted all the time, he took up ceramics , there, too, it was necessary to sculpt, and there it was also possible to develop, well, he is a citizen. spiritual spirit, but the historical vision of his country, and his patriotism, as a belarusian, he could hardly find in ceramics, then vanya suffered enormous misfortune and grief, at the age of 14 he lost his mother, and that we raked ourselves out, got out of it affairs. he became courageous , strong, handsome, very similar to his mother, i am only happy about this, of course, he was always an example of his father, and he was a very worthy example to follow, but i was interested in being in the workshop, i was interested, i remember , as a child there in the fourth grade, fifth, having visited the work