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– Sofia is a very loving and kind girl. I recognize myself in her tenderness. She is also a very polite child. I am happy when Sofia says “thank you” and “please.” These two words are able to change her life for the better. I can also see that she has a very caring and creative personality. Like mother, like daughter (she laughs)! Her father has made his contribution as well. She has his big eyes, eyebrows, intelligent gaze. I think our daughter took the best from the two of us. I would like her to grow up just as kind, courageous, and sympathetic as Murat, sweet and loving like her mother. I want to give her my inner world because every woman should have it. I want Sofia to develop her own female energy. I want her to become whoever she wants to, but not who her parents want her to be, I want her to find her own life path, her calling. We, her parents, also made our choice once. I am ready to support any choice she makes and will always stand by her.

– What are you currently working on? What have you prepared for your fans?

– I will reveal a secret: I am already working on a new album that will include songs like “Take Away Paradise,” “Slowly,” “Mirrors” and other tracks on which I work. I just returned from a tour of Europe with the show “Karolina.” This is a two-hour program made up of my best songs from the past 20 years of work. As a matter of fact, I celebrated my anniversary with this show. I am very happy that the result of my big team’s work still receives a standing Ani Lorak: ovation in many countries. «When I was a kid, we knew a wonderful recipe: spread – Which countries offer you the warmest welcome?

sour cream over bread, then sprinkle it with sugar» – Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Baltic countries, Belarus, Russia, and Moldova welcome me with open arms. A special part of the “Karolina” show is dedicated to a song by legendary composer Volodymyr Ivasiuk. I am particularly pleased that Ukrainian music is so She is a smart, beautiful, lovable, talented young woman whose concerts sell out in enthusiastically received abroad. We put in a lot of time and effort into the show and the feedback I’m Ukraine and abroad. Her daughter is a cutie, her husband is a catch! What else does now getting makes me very happy. I am glad to see that in every city I feel united with my audience, one need to be happy? But Karolina does not let herself rest on her laurels: she works which means that music knows no boundaries. For on new images and an anniversary concert tour. She radiates optimism and strength. example, in Belarus, all tickets were sold out even before the concert was advertised, so the organizers We talked to Ani Lorak about her everyday life and her long-term goals. decided to arrange an additional performance. I am sure nothing can be achieved without effort, and my only encouraged me to move forward. I know that have a very active lifestyle so I ensure I always have success is the result of my team’s work. the best things are just starting. When I reach one fresh vegetables and fruit in my changing rooms. summit, I set new goals, I dream of discovering new – Karolina, you look amazing. Are you – I am an artist and I have to be at different – We do, but not very often. I prefer Turkey in – You must have set goals for yourself at the horizons in order to become a better person. – What’s your favorite meal? always in such a good and sunny mood? social functions related to my profession, but I the summer. It is warm, the sea is clear, I think beginning of your career. Have you reached prefer a quiet rest. To be honest, I am a homely this is the No. 1 holiday destination for families those goals? – How do you keep fit? What’s your secret? – I like the food that I grew up with. There is – I try to stay in good spirits. But just as person, I like to stay at home with my family with children. You are never bored there, children such thing as genetic code. This is information nature is unpredictable with its weather, so is my and beloved. I don’t like crowded places with and adults always have something to do. As a – I became a singer – it was my most cherished – I have a mini-set of exercises for every day. about the food that our parents ate, and this mood. That is why I do everything to keep away many people that I don’t know. Sometimes I feel mother, I like it very much. dream. But I had to work hard to reach it. I know It looks like a regular workout. I do crunches, I information is passed on to us – and we prefer our melancholy and look for inspiration in very simple at a party like I’m at work. I don’t enjoy such that if you want to catch fish, you shouldn’t mind stretch, I dance at rehearsals. As a matter of fact, native borscht, a piece of meat or salo. things. I get help from my family, my audience at gatherings. – You have a little daughter. What do you getting wet. My great dream was to participate in I lose several kilos after my concerts. Because 2.5 My specialty is Ukrainian borscht. I come from the concerts, meetings with friends, thanks to all teach her? the contest “Morning Star,” and in 1995 I was voted hours on stage are better than any visit to a sports Chernivtsi region, everyone knows how to make it of this I live in the best of moods. – Where and with whom do you like to spend an up-and-coming star of the year. At that time club. After each performance we basically wring there. I stick to all the rules, I make it with ribs (I holidays? – Kindness, love, respect, gratitude. Sometimes everyone was watching that show. Then, when I out our clothes. I pay special attention to cleaning try to go buy them at the market myself), with beans, – What can spoil it? I learn from her how to take life positively and returned to Ukraine I felt attention. We set new procedures. I like contrast showers, then I put on with sautéed vegetables. When I was a little kid, we – With my family. I like to travel, to discover how to meet troubles with a smile: when she falls goals: we released an album, shot a music video, I good cream. I like massages. So my good form is also had a very good recipe: we spread sour cream over – Human foolishness, jealousy, misunder­ new places. Naturally, I like to spend holidays at and gets up right away and keeps running, when was invited to concerts, we kept on working. At the the result of my lifestyle. bread and then sprinkled sugar on top. Yummy! Bread standing, disrespect, rudeness: all the negative the sea, I can go there at any time of winter or she smiles the first thing in the morning, when long-expected trip to the Big Apple Music Contest for crust is especially tasty for this! Back then we never human qualities. But situations can be different: summer. My family and I have gone to wonderful she exudes positivity no matter what – these are young musicians in 1996 in New York, I won the first – What are your main rules in food? had fancy sweets, so we got by with what we had. But some people can realize they made a mistake, work countries – Greece, Turkey, I enjoyed exotic the qualities we have long forgotten. We are so prize. In 2008, I won the second place at Eurovision – I practically do not eat bread. I can have a piece it was so incredibly tasty! Let me tell you the best on their self-improvement, can ask for forgiveness, Thailand, we went to Bali. It’s a long trip there, preoccupied with our daily troubles that we forget and won the Artistic Award Eurovision Song Contest of light rye bread if I want it very much. I also limit recipe from my childhood, a real Ukrainian specialty. others go too far in their insolence, to the point of but the difficult flight was worth it – we saw very to enjoy life in all its aspects. Our children remind for the best artist. This summer I was happy to my consumption of deserts. My main rule – I eat You chop salo, fry it, it melts on the frying pan, then no return. This is the scariest thing in the world. picturesque places. us of this because they are little angels, they receive a Greek award for highest sales of my single soup every day. No day goes without a warm meal. you let it cool down and form white lard. Then you accept life as it is. “Sun” on iTunes, which I released in 2009 as part of First, it is very good for you, second, it invigorates add salt and pepper to it and spread it on fresh bread – Are you a naturally outgoing person or do – Do you ever go to your husband’s home the album of the same name. Also, in Kazakhstan, I me. Of course, I try not to overeat and I stop eating – so yummy! This was the taste of my childhood. you prefer to stay at home? country? – Who does your daughter take after? was awarded the EMA Eurasian Music Award, and this after 6 pm. If I am starving, I can have a light salad. I Text:Oxana HNATYSHYN 4 | interview interview | 5

comprehend how you can cook the same thing here. But people do everything wrong. They take a tadjin, bought for an exorbitant price in Tunisia or Algeria, then throw in all the ingredients and put it into the oven. In other words, they put a stove into the oven. And this is a huge mistake. The easiest thing to do is put it on the burner. This is how you try to find each recipe’s soul and to understand its wisdom.

Food Philosophy

Everything we eat does not exist in a vacuum, everything has its own history, and you need to know it before you put something into your mouth. Of course, you can go to McDonald’s on your way: buy something, shove it down your throat on the go. But this is no kind of discovery, such food is like a log that you throw into the fire to keep it going, it’s energetic but nothing more. This is not something you will remember, it all tastes the same. If you are looking for culinary discoveries, you won’t eat fast food. The other day I tried a very good bogracs at one Hungarian friend’s. It was once-in-a-lifetime event, because I will always remember the taste and the place where I tried it. The best compliment you can get when you cook something is: “I once tried this in this place,” or “My grandmother used to cook it like this.” Taste can be so strong that it can, like a People’s Interest in Cooking people received more opportunities, more rights, time machine, return us to our childhood. This is including in the kitchen. the most important thing – this energy component People are starting to get interested in Andrey Azarov: of our life. We cannot just work and feed our body cooking because they missed it. In the Soviet Borsht and Korchma in order to work more and then feed the body again. Union ideology replaced everything human. We would then all turn into robots. The idea itself – to abolish all restaurants and When I spent ten years working in Moscow, I «Every Recipe Is a Way to Discover to turn everything into kitchen factories where frequented Korchma to eat salo, borsht, and vodka. Eating as Communicating everything is unified, everything is calculated Because just borsht, without salo and vodka, is – resulted in the concentration camp menu. I simply an amuse-buche. But if you really want to Your Soul and Find Wisdom» People who have something in common can talk am sure that back then all Nutrition Institutes taste borsht, it needs to come with a shot of vodka about food. For example, about the taste of bread: in worked to make sure that Soviet people were well- and a slice of bread with salo and garlic. But the my country it tastes better than in yours. This way, fed and healthy. It was a way to treat cattle, not borsht needs to be right, needs to be true Ukrainian people become cosmopolites, they accept foreign people. This is the difference between the USSR borsht! When I was in Moscow, it was my favorite There is hardly any need to introduce Andrey Azarov to food lovers for he has long been a cooking guru. This chef culture and share their own. They get integrated and the rest of the world, where family restaurants place. Elsewhere the borsht didn’t taste as good. into the world, and the world becomes part of them. and long culinary traditions prospered. Here, from Belarus collected over 600 recipes of dishes from all over the world, narrated them in video, and started his own If you eat cabbage soup all the time, dumplings, top it everything was destroyed and turned into Текст: Stepan Hrytsiuk Internet recipe bank. He was also the first in Russia to design a cooking video app – Talerka App – which has been up with herring and vodka, you only have something slave forage. After the Soviet Union collapsed Photos: Yuriy HELYTOVYCH in common with the people who do the same thing. downloaded by over 100,000 users over the world. His book How to Learn to Cook is a bestseller in Russia, and his You have no conversation topic because it is hardly YouTube channel has generated millions of views. In this exclusive interview, Andrey talked to us about cooking and possible to talk about vodka and dumplings all the time. everything one would want to know about it. His Video Recipes First Culinary Experiments my profession – design. I was drawn to the kitchen, easily, and the dish will taste divine. If you analyze I knew I was my own boss there. the country from where the food comes, you can The Talerka.tv project was conceived as my own Everything must have started in childhood. My recipe book. Since I am a designer I find it easier to mother never learned to cook from her mother. І Recipe Secrets remember things in a visual form. When the recipes grew up in the 1970s in Pinsk, Belarus, and there was are simply written down, I can’t tell the difference a total deficit of any normal food. I remember the You need to know the basics to be a good cook. between them – it’s all letters. When there is a video, lines in grocery stores for staple products like sour If you don’t have the necessary knowledge and you it is easier to put information into your brain. This is cream. My mother was bending over backwards to start experimenting in the kitchen, there will be no how I came up with the idea to make video recipes. feed her two children. My sister and I got drawn into good out of it. It is like a surgeon experimenting Now, my personal recipe book which I uploaded the process too. When mother was at work, we tried with a scalpel. And I decided to start with onto the Internet has over 100,000 views per month to cook something. But at the beginning, everything traditional recipes. If I dealt with Ukrainian cuisine, from around the world. Maybe people find it easy to we made was tasteless, we simply had no skills to I was trying to learn what the hearth was like, what understand my language – the language of a short make it taste good. When I grew up I realized that, the stove was like, what was used for fuel, what kind video with no narrator and no text. for instance, the goulash we cooked back then was of kitchenware was used. When you know all this, it Over the past ten years I collected 620 recipes, far from the goulash we’re making now. is easier to understand the recipes. If we look at the of them 450 exist in a video format. If you decide to Then there was college. Like all hungry students, example of, let’s say, Lebanon or Northern Tunisia, cook something every day, it will last you two years! I had to learn to cook something out of nothing. For it will be completely different, because they used You can really learn how to cook. Some people wrote example, I intuitively learned to make soup from a a different kind of fuel – brushwood. They also to me and said they feel safe leaving their children single onion. It turned out later that the real French came up with a tadjin – an earthenware plate with a home alone with my recipes – they know the kids onion soup is prepared mostly of onions. Of course, conoidal lid. First, they would roast something fast won’t get poisoned. It’s all visual there, everything they also use meat broth, and they sauté the onion in the plate over the brushwood, then they would is explained, no problem. Some people could only for some forty minutes, then it becomes caramelized add some other ingredients, cover it with the lid fry an egg a year ago or heat a pre-packaged meal. and sweet, and then of this the French make a and let it stew over a small fire. The clay pot is an Now they go to the market, buy meat, know which wonderful cheap soup considered to be the best cure analogue of a stove. In this way, in two hours and piece to take and how to cook it. The project really for hangovers. All these experiences influenced my with minimum fuel, you can cook mutton. 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always sandblasted on the bottom – it varied was an ideally fit for the mission and its depending on the model. For example, the facets helped to fix it inside the dishwasher. March 1 classical 16-faceted table glass cost seven But even before the Soviet Union, this ‘Troinoy’ Spring Begins copecks; a glass with 20 facets cost twice as type of drinkware was used by Tsar Peter the much – 14 copecks. Great. He was a great lover of ships and his March 3 Despite variations the holding capacity of fleet, which he actively developed. The tsar Eau de the glass was always the same. If you filled spent much of his time on different sea ships International Writers’ Day it up to the border it would hold exactly and he understood that such a glass would Cologne: 200 grams, if you filled it up to the rim 250 be especially handy for it would not break March 5 grams. norroll on the floor. The Father Purim This type of drinkware began to be used The emperor was known for breaking in homes, dining rooms, trains, and soda- the “window into Europe” and wanted of Russian March 8 vending machines in the streets. The secret to replace all wooden tableware with the was in its superior hardness achieved by a more fashionable glass. Consequently, he Perfume International Women’s Day special technology. The raw material was ordered his subjects to invent an appropriate prepared at a temperature of 1,400-1,600 drinkware, which would be both hard to Industry degrees Celsius. Then it was annealed twice, break and beautiful. After he was presented and then lead similar to the one that was with the glass, he drank some alcohol from it Those who remember the Soviet Union remember used for making crystal was added. It is no and said: “This glass is stately and handy!” well the aroma of the eau de cologne Triple. It was surprise that such a glass could easily crack and then, to try it out, he threw it on the present literary in every home and almost all men nuts! floor. He cried: “Let the glass be!” People smelled like it. Housewives kept it in the kitchen But many researchers refute Mukhina’s present during this incident misinterpreted to treat cuts and bruises as a makeshift antiseptic, involvement in the invention of the his phrase as “Let the glass brake!” and tourists packed it in their backpacks, barbers offered granchak. They say she only perfected it by this started the Russian custom of breaking it to clients as an aftershave because its alcohol adding a special smooth border on top. glasses after important toasts, it was said to content was 64 percent. It was also Other sources say that the mass bring happiness. Although it must be said Granchak – production of faceted glasses began in the that this custom is known in other nations odorant and cheap. Yet the most Soviet Union much earlier – in the late 1930s. as well. sacred and interesting role of the Soviet engineers then built a dishwashing Despite everything, in the USSR the Troinoy was different – a certain machine. This technological miracle was far faceted glass grew from kitchenware into category of Soviet citizens consumed The Faceted from perfection – it could only work with a cult object. Decades after its invention it it as an alcoholic beverage at the time plates and glasses of certain sizes and super always is grouped together with a bottle of of alcohol prohibition. This was hardness. The granchak due to its qualities vodka and a piece of rye bread. reflected in numerous jokes and Glass: A Soviet tales. At such moments the Soviet men preferred not to look up to Allain Delon who obviously “did not drink eau Epoch Symbol de cologne.” International Women’s Day It is difficult to establish It is impossible to imagine any Soviet celebration, restaurant, or soda-vending when exactly this perfume started to be produced in the machine without a faceted table-glass – the granchak. It was used both in USSR. We only know that it March 9 kindergartens to serve juice or tea and in factories where workers ate lunch came from Europe where it Birthday of Ukrainian Poet Taras Shevchenko right at the machines. Over the years, the table-glass became a cult object in was known as “water from Cologne.” It was produced International DJ Day the USSR. But its history contains many interesting details and even more there in the seventeenth March 14 legends. Today, it is quite difficult to know fact from fiction. But we will share century and had medicinal with you only verified information. properties. The description St Eudokia’s Day said: “This magical water According to one legend the granchak glass was idea and created a new super strong faceted glass treats poisons, shields March 15 designed by the famous sculptor Vera Mukhina, model that was very easy to hold in one’s palm. It against the plague. It can World Consumer Rights Day who later sculpted the monument Worker and is said to come into being in 1943 – this date has Trivia cure jaundice, catarrh, nausea, Kolkhoz Woman. Allegedly, she made it during the since been considered the birthday of the faceted convulsions in the stomach, side March 17 siege of Leningrad in cooperation with the Black glass. In 2013, the world celebrated 70 years of and chest. It heals burns, adds strength t o Square author Kazimir Malevich. She was inspired the granchak. • In 1918 the granchak glass was featured in the painting by famous Russian women in labor, and assists expectoration. It can also Commemoration Day of St Prince Daniel of Moscow by one observation: she noticed that a thin and Mukhina’s glass had the following technical artist Kyzma Petrov-Vodkin entitled “Morning Still-Life.” It shows a sunlit remove tinnitus, add beauty, makes skin smoother, round glass often slipped from the exhausted specifications. It was 65 mm in diameter and 90 March 18 wooden table, an egg, and a red cat reflected on the side of a samovar, a and improves its color.” hands of the famished people of Leningrad and mm in height. The classic faceted glass had 16 bouquet of field flowers, and tea in a faceted glass. In 1810 Napoleon Bonaparte issued a decree forcing broke. Mukhina was then head of the Artistic facets. However, there existed variations with Tax Police Day in Russia everyone to reveal the recipes of their medicines. To Glass Workshop and decided not to shelve the 12, 14, 18, and even 20 facets. The price was • People used to call the faceted glass Malenkov’s glass. The name came March 20 hide their secrets, people started adding aromatic from the defense minister Georgiy Malenkov who issued an order to ration components and called them perfumes. The name Spring Equinox to certain categories of military servicemen 200g of vodka per day. Those “troinoy” (“triple”) appeared because of its three main who did not drink alcohol could exchange their ration for the same amount components – lemon, bergamot, and neroli. International Day of Happiness of tobacco or sugar. This order was in place only for a short time but many It is assumed that this perfume was brought to March 22 people remembered it long after it was gone. Russia by soldiers of the Napoleonic army. Later it was produced by the hereditary French parfumier, founder Day of Forty Martyrs of Sebaste • In the 1980s granchaks started to break. One woman’s entire table spread of the Russian perfume school – Henri Brocard. After the advent of the Soviet regime, his factory was Birthday of Korchma at Krasnokazarmennaya St. which she had set for a party was ruined because of the glasses. People immediately started talking about a new dry law, the capitalists’ trick. renamed State Soap Works No. 5, and later New Dawn. March 25 The reason was much more prosaic. The factory launched a new imported Troinoy was produced in the millions; it was popular both among regular people and among the Birthday of Korchma Taras Bulba Chain of Restaurants production line of glasses and deviated from the original technology. As a result, the glasses started to break – they cracked and their bottoms fell away. highest party leadership. It was said to be Joseph Birthday of Korchma at Petrovka St. Stalin’s favorite perfume because it was the only one that didn’t irritate his skin. Fest of the Icon of the Mother of God of Lydda 8 | beauty beauty | 9

women and men with planted Daffodils are telling of strong means rejection, it says “farewell.” dreams, to express affection to a flowers. How do you find your way feelings, however, not always (Similarly to the Ukrainian custom kind and positive person. Yellow among a great variety of flower mutual. of giving a pumpkin to a rejected carnations are given to reconcile shops? Let’s try to understand the The meaning of lilies depends suitor.) But when given to a family with someone. modern language of flowers. on its color. A white lily symbolizes member or a friend, the cyclamen A spring flower of hyacinth First of all, it must be noted that purity and nobility. A yellow will not have this hidden meaning. has a wonderful scent and can tell Russian tradition states that only lily extravagance, flippancy, A negative meaning is attached so much. As a rule, it symbolizes a an uneven number of flowers can capriciousness. An orange lily to a bouquet of dry flowers – it game, curiosity, but also wisdom. be given on holidays (three, five, curiosity, flirting. A striped lily symbolizes discarded love. It can be A blue hyacinth shows confidence seven, etc.) On birthdays, a bouquet abundance, welfare, prosperity. present to put an end to somebody’s and serenity. A red hyacinth means is normally composed of the number Alstroemeria is given to very persistent courtship. unexpectedness. A white flower is a of flowers equal to the birthday compliment a lady, to tell her about There are many types of symbol of consistency, loyalty. person’s age. If the age is an even her beauty and virtues. carnations and their meanings It is never easy to express number (for example, twenty), Aster is a symbol of elegance, are quite different. For example, your feelings. Flowers are perfect you add another flower (twenty- love, and memories. pink carnations are a symbol of assistants in this difficult task. one). A bouquet can be composed A bouquet of chrysanthemums motherly love, gratitude, support. In Your sincerity and good will that of similar flowers or different ones, can say a lot. A white mum means the US, they are given on Mother’s come with the flowers will never go it can be decorated with a sprig of trust, candor; a yellow mum Day. Red carnations mean success, unnoticed. baby’s breath or fern leaves. It can gratitude; a red one traditionally victory, leadership. They are given be wrapped in gift paper, mesh, or love. to authoritative respected people, Text: Olga SYNYUGINA cellophane with different ribbons. If A beautiful like coworkers or business the wrapping is a regular cellophane, planted flower partners. White carnations it should be taken off before the of cyclamen can be used to wish flowers are given to the receiver. A should be given luck, to bouquet is presented vertically with with caution realize the flowers at the top. If the flowers because it are given from a company or family it should be presented by a man. When choosing flowers we most often gravitate toward roses, Can You Imagine a Holiday Without Flowers? which is understandable: they look beautiful and they smell nice. Red roses symbolize love. A bouquet of flowers is a traditional symbol of a holiday, a good mood, a wonderful way of expressing your Pink roses tenderness. White roses are a feelings. International Women’s Day on March 8 can hardly be imagined without tulips, roses, lilies, and symbol of purity various flower arrangements that are traditionally given to beloved women, family members, coworkers, and chastity and they are often and friends. given to brides. Yellow This custom appeared quite Language of Flowers was published roses symbolize sunlight recently. In the fourteenth century in Russia. It described 400 plants. and welfare (yet the flowers were mostly symbols in Each flower has its own meaning. superstition that this is religious ceremonies. Starting in For example, a gentleman who sent a color of separation is the fifteenth century they were his lady a bouquet of lilies-of-the- not taken seriously used to adorn hairdos, clothes. valley was indirectly saying that any longer). Tea roses For these purposes people used he is infatuated by her. Geraniums symbolize elegance mostly bouquets of aromatic plants expressed an invitation to a secret and harmony. like jasmine, carnations, mint, date. A bunch of potato flowers had Tulips are given to mignonette, and basil. Only in the an unexpectedly romantic meaning express friendly feelings, early eighteenth century did the – in meant: “You are the best!” admiration, trust, to wish tradition to decorate rooms with In 1911 Europe started celebrating happiness and good luck. large bouquets the size of Victorian International Women’s Day. Its date These flowers are mostly flowerbeds appear. They were was not fixed at first: in different associated with spring. adorned with ribbons, lace, and years different countries celebrated bright feathers of exotic flowers. it between March 2 and May 12. In the nineteenth century, Europe Only in 1914 was International saw a new fashion – “the language of Women’s Day celebrated everywhere flowers” – which came from the East. on March 8. It coincided with a day Socialites used cupid’s-delights and off – Sunday. It must have been the To celebrate the 15th birthday daisies to express their feelings, they reason why the holiday was fixed on of the Korchma The exclusive new disc sent each other symbolic messages this date. and made meaningful presents. In Russia, and later in the USSR, «Taras Bulba» will be available Every educated person was supposed this day long associated with the chain of restaurants for sale to know this “language” so as not to image of a working woman with a look bad-mannered. strong civic position. Flowers did we present in our restaurants! In Russia, a variation on the not fit with this picture. After the flower language was popular even war, in the late 1950s-1960s, men a CD of Ukrainian Find time during Catherine the Great’s reign. started giving women mimosas, later classical music in modern in your life The progressive empress compiled a tulips, carnations, and gladioli. “Flower Register.” It stipulated that Today it is difficult to imagine a arrangements for our music! a rose means “let’s make peace,” a women’s present without a bouquet from Bulba Press. red tulip “you’re loved,” and a red of flowers. Not only on March 8, carnation a categorical “go away.” but on birthdays, weddings, and In the nineteenth century, other celebrations. In recent years, a booked titled Selam, or the it became popular to present both 10 | Народжені в Україні Народжені в Україні | 11

були, то ви допомогли б мені стати художником. А ті люди, серед яких я живу, не розуміють мене. І я між ними, як чужа». Однак там, в Каневі, вона дасть собі клятву – бути художником незважаю­ чи ні на що… Прийде додому і вкотре скаже про це батькові. Той приречено відповість: «Ну, ма­ люй, будь ти розпроклята! Лайки і доброго слова ти не слухаєш. А бити – я вже втомився з тобою б’ючись!» Так Катерина викидає вугілля і олівці, а натомість робить пензлі і купує справжні олійні фарби. Вона вчиться ґрунтувати полотно і малює як справжній художник. Поворотним стає 1934 рік, коли жінка створює «Берізки» – одну з трьох картин, що принесли їй світову славу. Наступно­ го року народжується ще один шедевр – «Квіти над тином». Та без сумніву доленосні часи прийдуть трішки пізніше. У 1940 році вона відвідає свою двоюрідну сестру і вдома у неї почує по радіо пісню «Чи я в лузі не калина була», яку співає Оксана Петру­ сенко. Художниця настільки вражена її співом, що вирішує написати співачці листа, а до нього кладе кілька своїх робіт. Малюнки потрапляють у руки до адресата і роблять у столиці справжній ажіотаж. Згодом до неї приїде ціла делегація. Її учасники будуть вражені, як у маленькому селі стільки часу без належної уваги жила така тала­ новита художниця. Катерина Білокур отримує славу і визнання. У тому ж 1940 році для неї організовують першу персональну виставку творів, везуть до Москви і показують Третьяковсь­ ку галерею. Найкращі зразки світового живопи­ Катерина Білокур: су приголомшують селянку. Вона скаже: «Куди мені бути художницею? Я – ніщо! Моя мазанина нікудишня! Я там таке бачила! Усе таке чудове, недосяжне для мене! Куди мені, дурній сільській тернистий шлях генія дівці, і думати про якусь умілість!» Незважаючи на це, вона продовжує малюва­ «Обідно мені на природу, що так ти, її роботи закуповують для музеїв, а сама ав­ жорстоко зі мною обійшлася, наділивши торка стає членом Спілки художників України. мене такою великою любов’ю до того Картини експонуються у Києві, Москві і навіть на Вона народилася в селянській сім’ї, де не могла отримати навіть початкової освіти, прагнула малювати і святого малювання, а тоді відібрала міжнародній виставці в Парижі, де їх побачить всі можливості, щоб я творила тую власноруч виготовляла не тільки пензлики, але й фарби, для чого використовувала сік буряка, цибулі, ка- Пабло Пікассо. Це саме він порівняє українку з чудовую працю во всю шир мого та- представницею «наївного мистецтва» Серафіною лини та бузини. Однак, у її талант не вірили навіть власні батьки, всіляко придушуючи його. Незважаючи ланту! І скільки в голові моїй снується Луїз. У той час, при демонтажі паризької вистав­ чудових невиданих буйних картин! І на це, мешканка невеличкого села – Катерина Білокур – без перебільшення стала геніальною художницею, ки, три картини з колекції вкрадуть. Їхня доля так вони в мріях і залишаються, бо в а її картини досі збирають захоплені відгуки мистецтвознавців. Одного разу, побачивши роботи українки, невідома досі. дійсності приходиться дрижать над Катерина Білокур померла у 1961 році. Вона Пабло Пікассо скаже: «Якби ми мали художницю такого рівня майстерності, то змусили б заговорити про неї кожною унцією олії, фарби і над кожним похована у селі Богданівка, де досі працює її Му­ міліметром полотна!» цілий світ…» Та про таку високу похвалу вона навіть не довідалася. зей-садиба. Катерина Білокур Текст: Степан ГРИЦЮК Катерина Білокур народилася у селі сусідам: «От покарав нас Господь такою дочкою! во «художньої», оскільки думала, що саме там на­ Богданівка Полтавської губернії. Досі ніхто до­ У людей дочки в таких літах уже заміж повихо­ вчають на художників… У дорогу дівчина прихо­ стеменно не може сказати дати її появи на світ. У дили, їхні матері зятів мають, а наша (не при хаті пить із собою дві роботи, які планувала показати цьому плуталася навіть сама жінка, називаючи то згадувати!) чортів малює!» екзаменаційній комісії. На одному малюнку була 1900, то 1901 роки. Зрештою, за офіційну дату на­ Заради справедливості варто зазначити, що «копія з якоїсь картинки», на іншому – начерк родження прийнято вважати 25 листопада 1900 не розуміли дівчину і більшість односельців. Її дідівської хати з натури. Розчарування молодої Treat року. Це найбільш правдоподібно, оскільки тоді талант вони сприймали як намагання уникнути селянки було гірким, бо через відсутність відзначають день великомучениці Катерини. важкої фізичної роботи. Вона ж сама ні на кого документів про закінчення школи, прийняти її yourself! Крім доньки, сім’я виховувала ще двох синів. не зважала і тільки вишукувала вільну хвилинку, до закладу навідріз відмовляються. На картини, Родина не була бідною, оскільки мала чималі щоб поринути в улюблене заняття. А для цього які вона принесла з собою, там також ніхто не Starting in the New Year, земельні наділи, тримала худобу. Незважаючи на часто їздила далеко від дому, де росли дуже гарні глянув. Тоді дівчина робить відчайдушну спро­ the restaurant chain це, дати добру освіту дівчині ні тато, ні мама не квіти. Їх художниця ніколи не рвала, бо була бу – перекидає свої малюнки через паркан у сад вважали за потрібне, позаяк були переконані, що переконана, що вони живі. «Ой, Боже мій! Як гля­ технікуму: раптом спудеї піднімуть їх і оцінять… Korchma Taras Bulba знання їй просто не знадобиться, а на науці мож­ неш кругом, то та гарна, а та ще краща, а та ще Катерина довго озиралася і все не вірила, що її will offer an exclusive на зекономити, купити взуття та одяг. Не дивно, чудовіша, та начебто посхиляються до мене, та так і не покликали. Вражена, вона пішла додому що й жаги до малювання ніхто не підтримував. як не промовляють: «Хто ж нас тоді малюватиме, з Миргорода пішки. Згодом ще пробує вступити в line of designer T-shirts. Це вважалося дивацтвом. Коли одного разу мати якщо ти покинеш?» То я все на світі забуду, та Театральний технікум, але і там її не приймають. The number is limited побачила, як дівчина сидить і шматком вугілля й знову малюю квіти. Ой, не гнівайтеся на мене, Дівчина настільки у розпачі, що одного разу хоче малює на полотні, то вирвала його з рук і серди­ мої близькії і далекії друзі, що я малюю квіти, бо закінчити життя самогубством в річці. so don’t wait too long то сказала: «Не дай Боже, тебе, стервило, поба­ із квітів картини красиві», – так з помилками і Якось йде на могилу до Тараса Шевченка, яко­ to buy one for yourself. чить хтось із односельців. Та тебе ж потім ніхто і малозрозумілим почерком напише вона одного го вважала своїм духовним батьком. «То мені 600 rub. заміж не візьме». разу у листі до своїх знайомих. вже така воля була – скільки хотіла, стільки й This is your chance to Знаючи про те, що батьки категорично не Одного разу Катерина дізналася про Мирго­ плакала. І, як живому, Шевченкові розказува­ stand out! підтримують її, Катерина малювала потайки. родський технікум художньої кераміки і одразу ла, як я хочу бути художником… – писала вона 500 rub. Та мати про все здогадувалася і не раз казала зацікавилась ним. Кажуть, що її заворожило сло­ пізніше. – Якби це ви, Тарасе Григоровичу, живі 500 rub. 12 | Travelling Cooking and Marketing | 13

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