he brought me a stunning edition of ancient russian painting by savely yamshchikov, it was the rarestt for the country of atheism. one export, apparently multiple instances. author savely yamshchikov gave tolya why because savely cheeks was a consultant andrey tarkovsky on andre rublyovka's film, they became friends with salon, so salonis gave me this copy and what's interesting? he says that i think that the interest of foreigners in russian icons and their export abroad began with this book by savely shchekovo. you know, i can say a blasphemous thing, but i am glad that foreigners took these icons abroad. at least they will be preserved there abroad, because i have been to foreign museums and seen the greatest collections of russian icons. and we have khrushchev just finished another iconoclasm, where artifacts were destroyed. here are the same icons as they were destroyed, the twenties in the thirties, when they were chopped with axes for kindling for samovars and it is not clear. will not this attributive vandalism be repeated for this reason? they took the foreigners and took the