– Artem, you remember your first visit to the island and first impressions?
first visit to the island I’m afraid I do not remember, because of the fact that he began to travel here deep in my childhood with my parents. From school experience reminded overgrown with weeds and sagebrush space eroded shore waters Sviyagi sticking out of his gigantic ancient timbers, pieces of large iron helm of the ship, were lying in the bushes on the shore, and the mentally ill psychiatric clinic, which is located in the Dormition monastery – he then presented a sad spectacle .
– What are you now interested in working on the island, has already changed, mostly revived?
ancient Chinese are known to be considered the greatest curse “living in interesting times.” But I’m interested in the changes, movement, even if sometimes with errors, but forward. Have every day to find a way out of non-standard positions, solve a variety of problems, I like it, I’m this and live.
– That’s about it, and let’s talk: about change … newcomers, people with “great land” see one, residents of the island is probably quite different. Now common place was the so-called commercialization of the island: it is covered in the media, social networks. Visitors are often touches a wide range of fee-based services, entertainment, appeared on the island. It seems to be a standard set of travel, but for some reason many on the island, he seems out of place. How do you personally feel about that?
course, commercial activities should be regulated so as not to make a monument of history and culture in a kind of circus entertainment adapts to sometimes, alas, lowbrow tastes of the public.
On the other hand, it should be understood that the complete absence of commerce can not be in a market economy. This solves the problem of local unemployment, in addition, services related to food, for example, caused by a necessity of life in them: their presence – these are the standards of tourism.
– As recently changed the whole mood of the indigenous inhabitants, the atmosphere on the island?
I believe, and it’s not just my opinion that the atmosphere and the mood of the inhabitants are changing for the better – there is work liveability and renovated school and a kindergarten. For all conditions of human labor – live, work is fun.
– The Islanders have become accustomed to the flow of tourists?
Given that almost half of the working population is employed in Sviyazhska museum or tourist service sector, the flow of visitors to the locals are good. Of course, causes annoyance obsession and curiosity of some tourists with cameras climb up almost to the kitchen gardens without permission, or defiant behavior, but this is generally uncommon, and I think the same would cause outrage in any person.
– A couple of years ago I saw in a museum exhibition of drawings by schoolchildren. Based on the works of the lessons is an extraordinary teacher. Can a few words about this man?
The children engaged in drawing mother Lyudmila – the wife of his father Sergius, abbot Sviyazhskaya church of the kings of Constantine and Helen. Of course, it was thanks to her talent and love of the teacher to the island, many of the children opened their gifts.
– Is among the indigenous inhabitants of the island of exceptional people (craftsmen, creators, etc.)?
For me Sviyazhska people are so wonderful and special, each in their own way, that I can not identify any of them specifically, not to forget anyone and do not hurt others.
– Specialists for work at the Museum of Kazan wrote out?
Yes, the museum was a researcher from Kazan. In general, the problem of staffing – one of the most relevant for our museum, and other cultural institutions. Unfortunately, the overall incidence of Education and Culture in Russia has meant that finding trained and focused on the research activities of a specialist with the necessary skills for independent work, it is extremely hard. Representatives of some of the museum professions, such as conservators, for example, is prepared exclusively in capital institutions, and they are there, in the capital cities, as a rule, remain.
team of our museum is very small – about 40 people, compared with the calculated for such a museum 160 employees, so, of course, the work of each lot.
situation in Sviyazhsk complicated by the fact that the island is no accommodation for the museum’s scientific staff. Microscopic museum hotel, can not provide the necessary conditions to live in, the more permanent. So people come here to work “shifts” in many different ways: sometimes I drive a car, sometimes other employees, it happens that has to go to the train station and from there to get your own. I hope this problem is solved, when the museum will shift buses for delivery to employees of Kazan.
– With other museums countries cooperate?
Yes, this season there were two exhibitions prepared by us, together with colleagues from other museums. The first – an exhibition of Soviet anti-religious posters from the collection of the Museum of the History of Religions in St. Petersburg. This period – a part of our history and downplay its harmful and pointless. But, of course, at the decision of the exposure we have consulted with representatives of the church, including the abbot of the monastery Sviyazhsky – pleased with the full understanding.
second joint exhibition – “The Way of tile.” This large project involved our colleagues – museums Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, and private collectors. The exhibition traces the development of tiled Russian art from the 16th to the 18th century, a movement skill on the Volga, from Moscow New Jerusalem Monastery, through Yaroslavl, Balakhna, Nizhny Novgorod to Sviazhsky, Kazan and Bulgars.
In preparation for the exhibition we managed to find in the collections of our partner – the National Museum of Tatarstan – the most interesting tiles of the 18th century with the labels of the Archaeological Society of Kazan, the mid-1880s, found in the excavation of the time when the territory of Bulgaria.
– Today notable event was the work of a theatrical laboratory Sviyazhsk
Yes, we have worked Theatre Laboratory Theatre of small towns, conducted under the auspices of the State Theatre of Nations (Moscow) under the leadership of Yevgeny Mironov and tour Izhevsk studio theater Bird. Moscow producer working here are so lit up Sviyazhsky that suggested the idea of ??an annual theater laboratory. So, hopefully, theater Svijazhsk will delight guests with new shows. By the way, the island – the
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