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Tolerance how we understand it is evil tolerance. We want justify sin by tolerance but we don't want to think that thus we perpetrate even more sin. God is not tolerant to satan. Why does a human think that he can justify what God can not? Of course, a human thinks there is no God and he is the king of nature and everything is permitted. And this is his fatal flaw. People should remember about Sodom and Gomorrah. And above all, they have to believe. To believe God is to believe what God says, to be true.

My self-portraits - 1993, 1997, 2011 I paint myself to see how I change with age. It very interesting work. I can look in my past and see all changes (bad or good), which happened with me. I am changing and this is normally. People are born and die. You can't step into the same river twice. We will never be the same. I like to watch for change of my body. I paint that I see. My self-portraits are my living chronicle.    

"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others". Socrates

The Blind Leading the Blind It's interesting. How much times can sell one's country, one's people, one's conscience? I look at the politicians and I wonder. They lead the world to war with the persistence of the blind which go to the abyss. And they consider that they do good.

Can an artist create when the whole world is against him? I can ask the question differently : must an artist create if the whole world is against him? I am an artist and I work "not thanks but despite". I've achieved great results in my work despite the evil of some people that was directed against me. And now someone wants to get hold of my works for nothing. It vexes me.

Our Lady of Kazan Our Lady of Kazan, also called Theotokos of Kazan, was a holy icon of the highest stature within the Russian Orthodox Church, representing the Virgin Mary as the protector and patroness of the city of Kazan. Her feast days are July 21 and November 4 (which is also the Day of National Unity). According to tradition, the icon was discovered on July 8, 1579, underground in the city of Kazan by a little girl, Matrona, to whom the location of the image was revealed by the Theotokos, the Blessed Virgin Mary, in a Marian apparition. The original icon was kept in the Theotokos Monastery of Kazan, built to commemorate the spot where it had been discovered. Kazan Monastery of the Theotokos where the icon was conserved until 1904. Invocation of the Virgin Mary through the icon was credited by the Russian commanders, Dmitry Pozharsky and Mikhail Kutuzov, with helping the country to repel the Polish invasion of 1612, the Swedish invasion of 1709, and Napoleon's invasio