met very far from here in the city of vladivostok, where we actually graduated from the ufa institute of arts, artstory we were working out assignments, that’s where we met at the far eastern institute of arts, and then we came here. we already had a daughter, yulia, and, as a matter of fact, we didn’t immediately start doing creative work together in the st. sophia cathedral, but gradually we came to the idea that it would be nice to create such a chamber orchestra, which in polotsk, in principle, is not so easy, because our composition is such that some of our artists live in polotsk, some in novopolotsk, at the station they got off the train in autumn, and somehow everything was so gray, and somehow everything was so sad, and somehow we reached the st. sophia cathedral in poltsk, we went in, and we were stupefied, it was just after the restoration, and somehow right away, well, that’s how love happens at first sight, so... it obviously happened, well the question was, in fact, already resolved, as if the work of the soloist of the st. sophia cathedral, we are raising a daughter, arseny is born h