Siberian hermit

The artist Alexander Terentyev has been living alone in the deaf village of Kozlovo in the Krasnoyarsk Territory for more than 20 years, not far from the border with Khakassia. Not far from here, in Shushenskoye, 3 years spent in exile Lenin - but if his exile was a punishment, then Terentyev retired from the big world of his own free will. He is waiting for the Siberian winter in the house left by the deceased priest of the local church. Here he writes paintings and icons, which he attributes to the church of the neighboring village of Kazantsevo, located five kilometers from Kozlovka. When spring comes, Terentyev leaves his home and moves to live and create in a home -made hut in the forest. Vera Trofimova and photographer Svetlana Panina, a correspondent of Radio, visited the Siberian hermit. To curtail