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hirkyy · 1 year

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"Winter" Semen Prosyak, Sedniv, Ukraine, 1982

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darkdreamingsongs · 3 years

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Grace in Terrible Times

Somebody, he couldn’t remember who, sang “sometimes the most amazing things come from the most terrible lies.” That may or may not be true. What was true that sometimes grace could be found in most terrible times. Take the last year, for instance...

This was the longest year of Kyvan’s existence. Which was saying something given the nightmare of the couple of years preceding it. Not to mention the 8 centuries before that. Of course, those weren’t all bad. Not by a long shot. He had to keep reminding himself of that.

In many ways, however, this pandemic year had been one of his best. Perhaps it was a blessing that it had lasted so long. Gave him time to recognize and appreaciate it. Two things he wasn’t always good at.

The pandemic, COVID-19 as the humans called it, hadn’t immediately drawn his attention. Not only were vampires immune to it, but the initial wave of contagion also seemed to jump over Russia. What happened in the rest of the world mattered very little to him, then or now.

Of course, he couldn’t avoid the outside world forever, even though he tried.

He’d gone to ground in Lyubech, a small village in what was now called Ukraine. For centuries he’d been quietly buying up property in the region. Sometime around the Revolution he’d purchased Zamkova Hill, where the old citadel used to stand. During the Soviet era, he’d permitted an archaeological excavation of the site by the noted academic author Boris Rybakov, with whom he’d also shared the old stories (Rybakov had turned those into The Tale of Igor’s Campaign and Its Contemporaries which he published in 1971). After the Soviet collapse, Kyvan had planned to build a dacha on the site but never quite got around to it.

That turned out to be a blessing in disguise as well.

In late 2019, Kyvan had taken up residence in the long forgotten monastic cells and tunnels dug into the slopes of Zamkova. In them he lived a solitary and silent life especially compared to the glamorous rock star life he’d lead since vampires came out of the coffin. Surprisingly, he hadn’t missed his former lifestyle once he’d had electricty and high-speed fiber-optic cable laid in. He, like the village, had lost their strategic value to the outside world, despite their colorful and significant history. Neither seemed to mind.

When COVID had finally come to Russia, it hadn’t taken a genius to recognize isolation was the best defence to the new disease. That was both harder and easier than it sounded for the villagers to accomplish. They were, largely, their own social bubble, however, they still required supplies from outside.

That was where he came in. Or out as it were.

Initially he transported supplies from some of the larger village nearby like Ripky and Sedniv. Unfortunately, as the pandemic wore on, those villages began to struggle too. Many saw multiple unneessary deaths. Before long, Kyvan found himself going to the oblast capital of Chernihiv to get supplies to keep the villages going.

He never bothered to ask himself why he cared whether they lived or died.

#plague Ukraine KyvanRus

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art-now-ukraine · 3 years

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Winter in Sedniv. Church of the Assumption., Galina Kirilenko-Barannikova

Winter in Sedniv. Church of the Assumption.

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Winter-in-Sedniv-Church-of-the-Assumption/837879/2756384/view

#fineart #modern #impressionism #figurative #galinakirilenkobarannikova #realism

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buderatsky-blog1 · 7 years

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"Поднимите мне веки!", казав колись Вій саме в Георгіївській церкві, в якій саме і знімали легендарну картину. #Україна #Украина #Ukraine #UA #вій #вий #церква #церковь #church #churches #Чернігів #Чернигов #Chernigov #Chernihiv #Sedniv #Седнів #Седнев #Полісся #Polissya #Полесье #uagram #Ukrainian #ukrgram (Sednëv, Chernihivs'Ka Oblast', Ukraine)

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soshenko33 · 7 years

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/ history 2. /

In 1962 the “House of Creativity” programme was moved to Sedniv (in Chernihiv region), and Soshenko 33 began to be used as studios for the USSR Academy of Arts. There was an extensive system of art studios like this, functioning as a form of postgraduate education for young artists. Students, who graduated from art universities, had the opportunity to receive a studio for three years and continue studying but in a freer form. This network of studios spanned the Soviet Union: including Soshenko 33 there were ten similar spaces, located in large cities and capitals of Soviet republics. All of them were subordinate to Moscow and all annual degree exhibitions were held there.

В 1962 году «Дом творчества» переехал в город Седнев (Черниговская область), а на Сошенко были организованы Творческие мастерские Академии Художеств СССР.

Система Творческих мастерских была своеобразным последипломным образованием для молодых художников. Студенты, которые заканчивали художественные ВУЗы, имели возможность получить мастерскую и продолжать учиться, но уже в более свободной форме. Существовало 10 подобных зданий мастерских в Советском Союзе - в больших городах и столицах республик. Их управление осуществлялось из Москвы, где находилась Академия Художеств, там же проходили ежегодные отчетные выставки.

#історія #history

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kundst · 8 years

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