ARTISTS

The rebellious twentieth century shuffled the fates of many nations and particular people. Such fate didn’t pass by the artist’s family too. Leonid’s grandfather Ivan Popov was born in the Dnepropetrovsk region. As a member of the Komsomol, he participated in the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. But neither an active citizenship, nor participation in a grand construction project helped Ivan to avoid the terrible consequences of the struggle of the Soviet government with its...

Women, children, musicians, characters of popular beliefs, and various fantastic creatures... Vygovsky is complete unpredictability, pretentiousness, ingenuity, allegory, and secret, double or even triple meaning.

Alexey Andreyevich never knew what leisure was; he didn’t know how and didn’t want to rest: he worked hard in the workshop, often went to the open-air, actively exhibited. At the same time, he always and everywhere felt the support of the family. His beloved wife was near, the sons grew and pleased their parents.

Garik Goryany was born and spent his childhood in the town of Belaya Tserkov, in an old house with a mezzanine, which has been surrounded by trees for more than a century. The history of this house and its inhabitants reflected like the prism the history of the country, its prosperous and sorrowful pages.