oleg vitalievich popelsky has been manufacturing unique and one of a kind stone products. a true work of art is born in its own factory. how icons appeared in the master’s life and why he chose stone out of all natural materials, we’ll find out right now. oleg vitalievich, good afternoon. hello. your exhibition “the miraculous kazan icon in stone” is taking place in the living room of vladislav golubok. this is a list of the kazan icon; at first glance it may seem that the icons are similar, but this is not so. each icon has its own distinctive features. so tell me about it more details. our icons are very different; they have serious fundamental differences from the paintings. internal energy, and the nature of the stone, this is a fundamental difference, so to speak, gather all the icon painters together, they will not repeat what we will do, within the framework of our professional activities, working on the creation of one icon, the essence here is that nature itself, it is stones , is unique to this material, therefore... each time we start new work, we have, in fact,