Gift to memorial estate "Mihailovskoe"

Yesterday Alexander Sergeevich should return to the patrimonial manor after 170-years absence. To meet the poet specially there has arrived director of Pushkin reserve "Mihailovskoe" George Vasilevich.

Pushkin should go home on a forward seat of the editorial machine, near to the driver. And we, reporters, already anticipated the sensational staff and surprised persons of GAI officers. Alas, at the last minute the trip should be postponed. Hands of the poet have appeared not by way of - too big, not such graceful as should be. It had to be late for three weeks, to bring hands into accord...

Alexander Sergeevicha Pushkin's porcelain doll in gift artist Olina Ventsel, won the figurines full-scale transfers memorial estate strong glory not only in Russia, but also in the Europe. And its workshop settles down in a cellar standard shabby Moscow house. We pass in distant room, where in corresponding surroundings sits in an armchair our hero dressed in a house violet dressing gown. It is last night before duel, therefore the person of the poet not sad and not cheerful: it is completely released from all terrestrial, the person of the traveller who is having a presentiment the destiny. To achieve such expression, Olina Ventsel only eyes drew more than twenty times.

- Well, Alexander, small mine, greeted visitors, - the artist coos, turning a head of the poet to entered, - gather, good mine, soon home you will go. From last autumn you wait...

At Ventsel attitudes with the poet leave far for creative frameworks - as with alive. Yes it such also looks: the order and an armchair correspond to an epoch, in a lap its own book, and beside in an oak secretary the pair of duelling pistol. The person, a hairdress, eyes - they though contain some doll proportions but where is more expressive, than Tussaud's exact wax copies. Dream of Olina - to return Russia alive Pushkin as whom it is possible to touch, feel as the close person. Museum images do not suit it categorically. Therefore it is engaged in the Pushkin already more than ten years.

Also Ventsel is the zealous advocate of Natalia Goncharovoj, it nobody allows to find fault with the wife of the poet as the vicious woman. Gets from a case a small charming figurine of a Pushkin muse:

- Look, what grace! No wonder, that because of it muzhiks were shot. And communication with Dantes - same full nonsenses. As you represent it to yourselves: in a manour house full of servants? That only on unfastening of a corset 28 minutes left...

Figurines Ventsel theoretically very dear, in human growth - should cost tens thousand dollars. But оOlina is the useless businesswoman, quite often it works, hardly paying back materials. Plus monthly rent of a workshop.

- Anything, Alexander, for you tsar has paid debts, and for me, I hope, somebody will pay. We shall cope, - speaks at parting Olina Ventsel, tenderly ironing the poet on porcelain whiskers...

On materials "Russian newspaper"(date of the publication on June, 29th, 2005)