opera prima performed concerts at the fronts in hospitals from 1951 to the sixtieth year, larisa aleksandrovskayan director of the state opera and ballet theater. 18 on february 1922, in the village of zvenyachi , tolochinsky district, mikhail savitsky, the future people's artist of the bssr and the ussr, the first holder of the order of francis skarina, and the only artist awarded the title of hero of belarus, was born. as a twenty-year-old youth , sovitsky fought against the nazis in the ranks of the red army almost at the very beginning of the war. ended up in the concentration camps of dusseldorf, dachau, buchenwald and miraculously survived. the artist nurtured the idea of the most famous cycle, numbers on the heart, dedicated to the horrors he experienced, for more than 30 years. on topics of complexity, scale and these paintings have no analogues in world art. the master’s painting “the partisan madonna” was soon purchased by the state tretyakov gallery. after its creation in 1967. it was exhibited at many international exhibitions in italy, canada, england, hungary , romania, germany, j