Artists performances, various shootings and photo shoots, none of them ever planned life in the village. I didnt want to live in the village, but not at this moment, in general, well, you just have to understand how it all looked here until today, well, here, there is a house from the 50s, other people lived here, led their lives here, other peoples things are left here, furniture, clothes, clothes are all over the closets, there they go in the attic mice, what is the name of the barn, the barn, where the curtain was kept. And i did not feel that, well, this is some, well, this is some kind of my space, but it was necessary to make a lot of effort to get through things and start creating my life, now class, absolutely, absolutely, that is, i went here, olya i didnt go, i went with my friends, we drew here and there, drank beer, grilled kebabs, there was little to do, but somehow the moment came when olya started driving, and actually, what you can see at the moment is heaven and earth are real, because here were, there was already a forest here, well, an abandoned house. For a long time, vasyl was not interested in the history of his fathers house, but he was lucky to have a grandfather by his side, who has answers to all questions. That land was bought by my fatherinlaw s father, it was 1923, he worked for mr. As a forester, i came here, i came in 1959, there was an old house here and it was already built up, houses were being built, houses were being built, he was disabled from the second patriotic war, he received some money, although it was small, but he received some money, and the motherinlaw had two brothers in canada, they sent parcels, she sold, they were building that house. It will be austrian, it will be cool, this, this is soviet, i bought it at an auction, although i painted it a little, it will have to be cleaned back, because it has a nice old patina there and it is made of oak, it was brought, and two chairs are very cool, too from kharkiv, i bought such secessionist, it is the beginning of the century, constructive things, interior, once, as you now buy ayusto at ikea, once there were factories, factories that made, people bought for themselves, and we collect and fill such things thats all if this object, and it will be somewhere in such a charm, here in the stratography there are 1900 years and 200 there is the 25th year, that is, yes, on the left this is our cellar, that is, this is our refrigerator, modern, but in the future we plan to improve it, and this will be our wine cellar, we will store wine there, this is our stock, so it looks like it may be large, but in reality it is half winter or 1 3 of winter, and here at the moment it is our workshop that needs some kind of work, with paint or some kind of dirty, or some size. But it used to be a barn where they kept hay, i didnt catch it at the time, but i told my grandfather a lot that i changed the chair for the closet, that is, this closet was in an apartment in 1901 in lviv, the owners interior, the design was not suitable, i had a cool art nouveau chair, we waved its simple, it suits me, they have a chair, well, we can come in here again, its our bedroom from. Now, but here too, you can see on the walls, well, the furniture is all from the beginning of the century, paintings too, some of mine, my icon is such an interpretation, of bhystochov, aa in my vision, even when i was a student, when i was young, i had time to paint, this is an old chest, which is currently used as a book storage, i dont know, its here, we have different interesting albums, vasyl and olya decided not only to clean and restore the old parental house, but also to expand it , rethink and add a new modern. Part , which can also be filled with artifacts of the past, it is necessary to somehow plus or minus expand it a little, or increase it, well, something must be done, and there we talked with colleagues, architects, about what we can do , so as not to violate constructive and aesthetic moments, values this object, he came, we talked, he says, everything is fine, the structure is good here, we need to make some fortifications. Strengthening and everything and the rest we basically expand in style and in places there will be something modern, it will be such a contrast, old new, that, but we will see this house that is from the 50s and we will see what has been done in the 20s of the next century, well, this is actually this project, a sketch of the project, a colleague came, we sat down to drink coffee and i was talking, he was writing, well, drawing, sketching, so it turned out that he visualized my first thoughts, the characteristic wooden porch will remain, but a second floor will appear, with an additional bedroom and a nursery for the next generation. Oh, to restore, i cant express how happy i am that thanks to me , everything was preserved, then i went to work, then i came here, looked after that house, well, how i looked after, do you already know who . I did it for a long time, as long as i was old, i was 85 years old, i still went to work, i took care of it, people came, came , are you selling, are you selling, i say no one sells, i say, i believed, i believed that he he will come, he came, and i am coming, they have now brought order, lets imagine for 80 years no one has brought order here. Turn on ok its when everything you want click and now youre running the game bird and youre on a tv show oh whats up megogo turn on hundreds of channels thousands of movies and sports theres muckle taek pills discounts , 15 in pharmacies, plantain, bam, and savings, there are discounts on septifril darnytsia pills, 10 in podor pharmacies. Whats wrong, i drank an antibiotic, it ran into your tummy, and you girls, how and how, how after the antibiotic, how, probiz yes, no matter what ukrainians think about, no matter what they talk about, war, war and our victory still comes first, only. Espresso from monday to sunday. Completely different spheres of human activity. Sports, health, politics, the return of crimea, military analysis, nine presenters, journalists, experts, opinion leaders. In the realtime mode, events through the prism of war are more relevant in authors projects on espresso. Vitaly portnikov is with you, and we are talking about the main events of this week. Vitaly portnikov and top experts about events of the past seven days, our guest will be Lieutenant General of the ground forces, former National Security adviser to the president of the united states, donald trump, herbert mcmaster. Current topics, pressing questions, authoritative comments and forecasts in the information marathon project with vitaly portnikov, every sunday at 20 10 on espresso. In addition to the topic of various ukrainian houses, we also wanted to understand another phenomenon of folk architecture the phenomenon of Wooden Churches. Vasyl from the Previous Story advised us to visit an art critic in uzhhorod researcher mykhailo serokhman, who has been studying the ukrainian Wooden Church for many years. The Wooden Church is a phenomenon, indeed, a phenomenon, in several aspects , first of all, the sides, it wins shingles in the landscape, it echoes, say, with the foliage, with the leaves of the trees, with the distant plan, the middle plan, the closeup, second is the story. Alive, here you are, the time machine hasnt been invented yet, but you just walk in, go right up and get busy in the 18th, 17th, 16th centuries, it was built for a while, in 1502, it began to act as church, the paintings were a little later, the church of the holy spirit is one of the oldest churches in galicia. More than half a millennium ago, it was built by the residents at their own expense. Potters, why did that temple actually appear, because our village was rich, it was very highly cultured, and in fact, that street, which is now called the central one, was called pottery, because potters lived on that street. The church is built of carpathian wood, without a single nail, only with the help of wooden stakes, tibers, which are the building itself, it is not disturbed by any unnecessary decoration, any in a way, everything comes from the logic of the wood, from the material, everything comes with respect to the material, to the texture, to the way it is stacked, well, because in fact these are churches that are built, all the achievements that existed somewhere, were applied in one or another region, they all are maximally present in such a building. Wooden church, well, that is their uniqueness, and if we talk about ukraine, then ukraine is a country of Wooden Churches, it was still much more a country of gifted churches, but it still remains, even now we have about 2,500 gifted churches, moreover, in such areas that it would seem, where could they have come from, and in fact a Wooden Church could be one of the symbols of ukraine. On old engravings , you can see that there were such churches in kyiv before the burning of the city by the tatars. They were in central and dnipro ukraine. If the churches were low in the mountains, because they had a hill under them as a foundation, then on the plain Wooden Churches could reach 50 and 60 meters. To date, the largest number of Wooden Churches have survived in transcarpathia. In mountains always conservation of kraschazhenska ukraine, Kharkiv Region and neighboring regions, all this essentially disappeared, that is, of course, the great merit of the soviet period was here, there was a planned program of destruction, if i remember correctly, and one in luhansk region, somewhere there was recorded in the church lists, and one in donetsk region, as now it is not known whether they exist or not, in kyiv region there are a number of beautiful. Churches in chernihiv region, beautiful Wooden Churches, to transcarpathia, to the carpathians in general , this policy of destroying churches later spread. Transcarpathia was the last to be included in the 46th year of the soviet union, officially, and then the vegetarian regime was already quite vegetarian, they did not attack so much, but several churches were destroyed in the same way. Those churches that were not destroyed during the soviet rule, mostly remained closed for decades, until 1991, many of them were turned into granaries and other agricultural buildings, others were demolished into baths and also turned into warehouses. In the 46th year, the church was closed, because there was a pseudocathedral of the communist government and the moscow church, which the Greek Catholic Church forbade there was no armory here, there was nothing else here, as the bolsheviks liked to do in other temples, but simply the temple was closed all the time and there was a sign that said it was an architectural monument of the ukrainian soviet socialist republic and that was it. Here, virtually no one had access to this church, and already when our church came out of the underground in the 90s, the church was consecrated as the church of the holy great martyr dmitry, that is why the church has two names, because sometimes people come and ask, they do not know , they say, what do you have . The church has two names, because it can be roughly said that it was consecrated twice, once back in 838 and once in 1990. The church of the cathedral of the most holy theotokos is an outstanding architectural landmark in the boykiv style. If you see such a characteristic silhouette of a pyramid, it was built by boyki, the inhabitants of the middle part of the ukrainian carpathians. The year 1838, it was quite a difficult year, because at that time the austrohungarian empire took male recruits, and here the church was mainly built by women, very few here. There were men who helped, that is, women also hewed the beams, and lifted the beams, it was their sacrifice for those of their men who were at the front at that time, we see it in such a very interesting shape. If we look at the Christmas Tree in the forest, then the Christmas Tree is very similar to it, because it also goes more, more , less, less, and yes , and so to the top, eh, this is such a very unique boyki style, because if we go somewhere else, we will not see such a style, we will not see so many Christmas Trees. In 2013, at the session of the Unesco World Heritage Committee in cambodia, the Wooden Churches of the carpathian region were included in the list of World Heritage. However, the protection of unesco is in the air. Not a panacea for destruction, there was no light here, there were candles, and they began to conduct electric light from the center here, that shield that where the light is turned on, er, well, some relatives, well, some highly respected chief of zhovkiv, who had something to do with such of temples, who did not have a license, did not have permission, permits to carry out such works. They put it here on the raft, there on that, on that raft, attached that shield, electric, and then one fine day, at night during a thunderstorm, layer lightning broke that shield, and the only luck was that the cable was on the ground, and it started to smolder. That is, our church almost burned down, as many such churches burned down, especially in the carpathians, and there were those, well , they were not fire extinguishers, but there were cylinders filled with powder, so white, and that actually saved us, when it began to smolder, and it reacted, and that powder flew all over the temple. You cannot imagine what happened here, today churches are collapsing by themselves, due to lack of money for restoration, but most of all, due to simple negligence and lack of understanding by the community or the priests, of the true value of the old Wooden Church, often the authentic appearance of the church changed according to the taste or distaste of its visitors, these are the ideas of local people, local communities first of all, mostly they lack knowledge and understanding of the value of trees architecture, these are the ideas of priests to a large extent, who mostly lack the taste and concept of the value of wooden architecture, for them the church is a place for prayer, that is, the state remains there are lists, there are historical references, there are examinations, there is everything, everything is there, there is legislation, only it does not work, some unfortunate shed will burn down, so everything is being looked at by the prosecutors office, who is there, what was set on fire there, the church burned down, well, well, thats how it all happened, well, it happened, although this church is the main value of that village, often the village collects some wild, unbelievable funds in order to distort its most valuable thing that they have in the village, and they cover it with a shiny sheet, now the fashion for those pseudogolden, pseudosilver, purple plates are some kind of horror, a squeal of bad taste such a. Twisted spew of bad taste. Imagine a landscape, green mountains, trees, fir trees, the background, there are blue mountains, everything, everything, and suddenly an explosion. The sun bounced off that super shiny surface, ripped your eyes, and ripped your brain. After 1928, the church was covered with tin, which we can see in front of us today, it will soon be 100 years old in that tin, by that time it was under ghonty, its glory has been preserved. Of course, i would like to restore it so that it is under shingles, but it is understood, of course, that it is very financially expensive, maybe someday there will be a sponsor who would like to contribute, then we will only be glad to restore that historical, historical antiquity , so that people understand, we just need to explain to people more, we just need to tell people more, that is what we would like, you know, for our the church shone, it was lined with beautiful clapboards and so on, you know, if there is a Good Neighbor on the side, you know, another, for example , community and so on, who made it, people are attracted by it, and they say, well, it is so typical, there is so and so , yes, and we do nothing, and yes further, why is that so, well, but then it is very nice to ask a question, and which church , your neighbor is shown on television, is it on the internet, so, for example, is it widely developed, to which tourists come and so on, well, then everyone will say , well, maybe they come to ours, well, they come for something, so they like it more, you came in peace. Landscape and suddenly there shines some such huge golden onion, well, you cant bypass the moscow patriarchate, they build churches in a square and sloppy way, they have to to stop. The territory, but a false idea of the orthodox style has been created, and the orthodox style is the moscow style, it is a huge golden onion, a tent , a bell tower and everything, as if there is no Ukrainian Orthodox style, or the carpathian church, which after all was also once orthodox , but this is a cunning enemy of ours, he brought it a long time ago, well, the same thing happened in volyn , for example, in the kyiv region, when. When log or baptismal churches were added to them, this bell tower was added to them at the entrance, that is, they russified the appearance, russification took place landscape, we have it happening at a simply crazy pace, those golden onions on the mountains, it is simply incredible, it reaches some kind of maniacal expressions, when this baroque dome is removed from the Wooden Church and another tower is put up almost to the same height, which should resemble a tent style , it is ukrainian from. from byzantium, and byzantium is a hemisphere, it is a neat, noble hemisphere, firstly, secondly, it is a baroque church, mazepin baroque, it is a pearshaped form that reminds the father of the baroque forms of europe , this is absolutely not an onion, but for some reason it is believed that there should be a grandiose bulb, this is huge, huge, and for some reason there should be a thin neck under it, well, excuse me, it is already in front of you, a temple, this is islam, this is an islamic form, actually speaking, i think that moscow architecture largely comes from there and goes, each has its own ways, each architecture, each nation, the question is in aggression, in intervention, in imposition, well, the colonial state and the colonial state, all accepted the stamp of colonialism, in including in church architecture, it seems incredible, but leaders. My reason for the distortion of architectural monuments is the initiative of the local residents themselves, who simply do not have enough knowledge. If you drive through the villages, you can hear how people are pr