the kolyvan factory carried out orders from the cabinet of his imperial majesty.dren were raised, taught to craft, that is, they saw, observed how to add abrasive, how to sand, how to open a drawing, you understand, when from childhood you teach it to a child, instill it in him, and then such magnificent masters grow up. one of the factory workers was a distant ancestor of alexei dorokhov; the current chief artist of the enterprise only recently learned from the archives that he is a hereditary master. i found it in goltsovsky’s archive. that my great-great-great-great-grandfather the seventh generation participated in the manufacture of the seven-arshina bowl, then it turns out his sons got a foothold in the factory and then my great-great-great-grandfather, who is a cousin, graduated from the imperial academy, now called the academy, then there was a school, graduated with honors, returned to the factory, well, our generation is left through there ’s already a lot going on there, five minutes later i shot , plus my wife is an artist, in the 19th century kolyvan

i graduated from the college of applied arts in nizhny tagil and was assigned to kolyvan.ent for 2 years to study, but it turned out that i’ve been here for 40 years. alexander anatolyevich derbinev found different times at the plant. it was the hardest in the nineties, when they produced mainly ashtray souvenirs. then there were five of us left here, we only worked in this workshop, no orders, nothing, i got this impression then, we were driving to barnaul on a night in winter, starting from the chicken, nothing at all one living living soul these 500 km to barnaul, the country was extinct in general, it was generally scary, well, since 2000 somehow... 280 km south of barnaul, the village of kurya, the birthplace of the famous designer mikhail kalashnikov, here is a church of the sign of the blessed virgin mary, built in 1904, the main decoration of the recently restored temple was the unique works of the kalyvan stone carvers. five mosaic icons, three life-size, one above the gate, of our znamenskaya church. that is, every person should know where he is going, he is goin