valery fitinsky, a woodcarving master from the small town of derechin in the grodno region, a man whoagers, went to the big city for money and success, but years later he returned to his small homeland, and it was here, in his own words, that he finally... found himself. this gallery is only a small part of the master's wooden icons. figure out how to depict it yourself from, say, one of the sides, just on the written icon, this is not there. valery does not hide, in fact, he creates copies, but the faces in his works turn out to be very realistic, some saints look sternly and even sternly, some sufferfully and mercifully. for many, such realism is frightening and even alarming. people are used to they see the same icons or something... drawn pictures there, some postcards there, something, here it comes and nikolai practically looks you in the eye, like that. there are those, valery admits, who are fundamentally against calling his works icons in the full sense of the word. but for the master himself, it is not so important what those around him call his wooden creations, icons or sp