the collection of sluch belts became an irreparable loss.cult mission of collecting what was lost fell to elena vasilievna alladova. painstaking work on collecting works that managed to be evacuated from museums in vitebsk and other cities of the republic. it will be later that her contemporaries will call her tretyakovsky in a skirt and say: “where alladova went, museum workers have nothing to do.” at the same time, hardly anyone wondered: how did a graduate of a provincial belarusian school in parichi was able to become... a superior connoisseur of such an elite art form as painting, and to assemble a unique world-class collection in an art museum. in the mid -twenties, the creative bohemia of minsk gathered in the artist’s house on international street. here one could meet famous painters and even vyacheslav himself. as well as art historians syrkin, shchekotikhin, landscape painter vladimir kudrevich and ending our conversation today, my friends, i want to remind you once again that even the smallest detail depicted by the artist on the