Hi my dear friends!
Today I want to tell you again about the history of a military photograph. More precisely, several photographs that are united by one story. I wanted to do this for a long time, but, as you may remember, we only got the opportunity to use the Internet a couple of days ago.
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It all started with a kitchen cabinet. Like all of us, it did not want to surrender to the enemy. Even when the house was practically destroyed, it continued to cling tightly to the wall. After the liberation of Borodyanka from the Russian invaders, the photo you see above went around all social networks. I will say right away that now this kitchen cabinet has been dismantled and transferred to the museum.
If you look closely at the photo, you will see a porcelain cockerel on top. This cockerel became the hero of the second part of the story about the courageous kitchen cabinet.
The second part of this story would not have happened without this charming young woman. This is my friend artist Valeria Polyanskova. She is an amazing person. I met her during a very difficult period of my life, when after a divorce I was left alone with all my animals, could not work and did not know how to live on.
Valeria wrote to me on Facebook and offered to help. She came to our shelter, helped me clean up all the enclosures. Then, over tea, she found out that I was a copyright lawyer. So our cooperation and friendship began.
But let's get back to the story of the kitchen cabinet and the cockerel.
You probably recognize these guys in the photo below. And of course you recognized Valeria and cockerels. How did it happen? Here is what Valeria herself had to say about it.
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"We with my husband, artist Ivan Svitlychny, have close and good relationships with Polish curators and artists. And these relationships became even closer during the war. The Poles were very supportive, sincerely concerned, helped and continue to do so. So we started thinking about gifts for them. As Polish friends are very active in monitoring the course of the war, from fighting to memes, I first thought about preserving tomatoes or cucumbers as our weapon against Russian drones"
(You've probably heard of the funny story where a woman shot down a Russian drone with a can of canned cucumbers😁)
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But back to Valeria's story
"But when I saw a photo from Borodyanka with a locker and a ceramic rooster that survived in a ruined house, I realized - we need to look for a rooster.
I found roosters in Pozniaky. There were four of them at once! But as a result, the seller sold me three, because the fourth was with a small defect.
One of my friends helped me a lot with the purchase.
He has already taken me home. And here the factors of time and place were included. At first we confused the bridges and we had to return. Then already on the necessary bridge got to "tug". Then we missed a few turns and instead of eventually getting to Yaroslaviv Val, we found ourselves on Lutheran (to go to Shovkovichna). But here we were turned on
checkpoint…
Already going down the street, my doctor looked in the mirror and said: what is this, Zelensky is coming? And indeed, behind us, near the checkpoint, there was a crowd of people. Among them, I saw an acquaintance "white head" and "answered": who is it, Boris Johnson with him?
Almost at the door of my porch, I realized that I just had to give the roosters to Zelensky and Johnson. It seemed to me that I had failed a task and "everything was gone"! My friend said: if you want, let's go back and try.
Focusing on the "tips" of passers-by, I climbed out of the car window with roosters and asked: did Zelensky and Johnson pass here? And where did they go? - we almost reached them, but stopped again at the checkpoint, where we were turned around again. But I already saw the delegation and got out of the car.
I understood that I looked as dumb and suspicious as possible - some unknown disfigured girl (I did not plan to take pictures with the President of Ukraine and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom that day) chasing a delegation in a black jeep. But for some reason I hoped that everything would work out.
While I was trying to explain to the guards who I was, why I was here and what I wanted, Zelensky and Johnson had already approached us. And I already began to explain it to them. I was in such an adrenaline rush, I tried to speak English, Ukrainian, then got lost in Russian. Volodymyr Zelensky helped translate my confusing story to the British Prime Minister, who asked: are they roosters for wine or water? Who is their author?
Then, fortunately, Serhiy Nikiforov joined the conversation, showed the same photo of Elizaveta Servatynska, which showed a kitchen cabinet in Borodyanka, and explained everything. After that, Volodymyr Zelensky offered to take a photo together. And I understood - I completed the task.
If we talk about roosters in the field of art, there is a parallel: the sun - a rooster, and the sun - a black square (from the opera "Victory over the sun"). Perhaps, contrary to Malevich's ideas, his painting became a harbinger of the tragedies of the 20th century, and now is the time for us to come out of the old paradigms, to emerge victorious from war, from war not with the Sun but with Russia, which lasts for centuries.
Although it may sound pathetic, I think what is happening in Ukraine now is an event of global significance, and our victory could be a turning point, a landmark for world history."
So, one of the cockerels settled in the office of President Zelensky. I wonder if the second cockerel lives in the office of the British Prime Minister? 😉
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Love you all
Yeash even the plates still there