professor of the belarusian state university, candidate of art history, artist, the boy faced a difficult fate historical fate mikhail andreevich was born in the village of ringing, vitebskegion , tolochin district in the family. the peasants are his father. andrey petrovich worked on the railway road, and his mother anna konstantinovna on the collective farm. there were five in the family for the sake of the children. there were also three older brothers. they all died at the front and the younger sister. and as mikhail andreevich said in many of his interviews, his childhood was cloudless and so joyful, and he , uh, taught me from childhood. yes, to all the main agricultural work, well, like any village child of that time, he also learned carpentry, since his father was a master of this business. well, already from childhood, he showed a talent for drawing and let's say. so he dreamed of becoming an artist in many ways, of course, this was facilitated by his friendship with his cousin valentin savitsky, who was the eldest mikhail andreevich and even before the war managed to graduate from the vitebsk art school. and now mikhail andreevich would you like to follow in hi