the first attempts at drawing were sketches of tattoos during slauk’s service in stroybat.t the theater and art institute was the famous graphic artist vasily sharongovich. nowadays, books with illustrations by valery slauk are republished in foreign languages, and his graphic works, art critics ... are called the highest examples of modern art, the artist’s works are stored in the national art museum, in the funds of the belarusian union of artists, collections, museums in austria, italy, germany, one of the main themes in the work of the winner of the francis skarina medal, valery slauk, was belarusian slavic mythology. this church is called the belarusian tajmahal; it once housed a fertilizer warehouse. we will learn more about the pearl of belarusian architecture in the traditional section for travel lovers, place on maps. the building of the church of the assumption of the blessed virgin mary in the agricultural town of sarya , verkhnedvinsk district in the vitebsk region , has no analogues in the world. this is the most expressive example of neo-gothic architecture in