Linor Goralik. Apography

In the series of “Apography”, Soviet photographs of the second half of the 20th century were taken into “poor” salaries: instead of gold and silver, metallized gouache, instead of stones and grains - rhinestones for children's crafts and cheap beads. For the author, this project is tightly connected not only with the now huge process of rethinking old and building new narratives about Soviet reality, but also with that category of everyday, private history, in which people cannot be determined as “bad” or “good”, but only as alive.

In addition, the “apographs” for the author are tightly connected with the history of the imaginary Soviet city of Tukhachevsk and the Petrovsky family living in it. Tukhachevsk is located on the site of St. Petersburg in the absence of St. Petersburg. This millionaire city was founded in 1947 and was considered “closed” until 1993 due to the activities of the Tokhachevsky experienced algae processing plant, where more than 80% of the city’s population worked. The geographical proximity to Europe, the fifty -year -old existence as a closed research object of state significance, the complexity of natural conditions and a high educational qualification at one time made Tukhachevsk a city in which, according to A. Tiiyanov, “culture survived exclusively due to its ability to reproduce by division”. In the post -Soviet period, Tukhachevsk gained certain fame thanks to the two loud plots connected among themselves. One plot is the “Tukhachevsky Prince” case: in the mid -eighties in two parks of the city, the bodies of several “sleeping beauties” were discovered - young women strangled and laid down to “sleep” in a bed carefully spread on the grass. Another plot, which secured the name of the city in the mass consciousness, is often mentioned in the memoir and historical literature “Tukhachevskaya Paper Church”: a group of approximately thirty people, united by a non-grouped young historian, an asset priest Sergey Quadratov and adhering the ideas of a peculiar liberal Christianity.

A number of underground Tukhachev’s artists, writers, poets and musicians considered themselves parishioners of the Paper Church, named so due to the fact that its followers did not revere or kept traditional icons. This was partly done in order to reduce the risk of persecution, if objects of a religious cult are found in their homes, and partly due to the conviction of Quadratov in the danger of "everything that is able to encourage the believer to empty rituals and seduce his not lived, not missed through his own consciousness with an aesthetic attractiveness." At the same time, the squares and his followers were deeply believed in the importance of creativity inspired by religious experience and religious thought. As a result, the group members actively created images and objects, one way or another related to faith. Most often, these works were created on paper and from paper, because of which Friends and followers of Kvadratov began to joke in a joke to their group of paper church (and Kavadatova-paper bishop). This name was fixed and gradually lost its original ironic hue.

One of the active parishioners of the Paper Church and a close friend of Quadratov was the mathematician Yakov Petrovsky [*] , arrested in the early stages of the investigation and considered for several months the main suspect in the “case of the Tukhachevsky prince”. However, there were no sufficient evidence against him, and after the next (and last) murder, the victim of which was Mara Ladysheva, the daughter of another parishioner of the paper church, Petrovsky was released. Immediately after this American human rights organization Justice for Freedom managed to achieve Petrovsky’s departure abroad. Petrovsky settled in the state of Wisconsin; His interviews and essays became one of the first media materials about the paper church. At the same time, the murder of Ladysheva was very struck in the square group, the creative and personal ties of the parishioners began to weaken and break up. By the beginning of perestroika, the Paper Church actually ceased to exist. The “Case of the Tukhachevsky Prince” is still considered unsolved and is surrounded by something like a provincial cult among amateur detectives and occultists living both in Tukhachevsk and beyond.

Among the works of Petrovsky for the Paper Church, made in the late Soviet and post -Soviet period, “apographs”, “a number of minor events and phenomena”, “pencil icons and others”. The real author of these works sincerely believes that without the help of Jacob Petrovsky, they would never be born.

[*] In particular, Yakov Petrovsky is the brother of Sergei Petrovsky, the imaginary author of the book “Oral Folk Creativity of the inhabitants of the M1 sector”, in which the folklore of the inhabitants of one of the zones of hell was collected. The eldest daughter of Sergei - Agatha - the main character of children's books “Agatha Returns home” and “Agatha looks up”.

1.

Elena Bad Virgin Rostovskaya

... they called "Our aristocracy", she drank champagne ... Well, a lot. And they come once and say: "Do you know that her mother was engaged in prostitution?" And we were so clean - we did not even understand at first.

Photography, paper, gouache, materials for children's creativity

2.

Ekaterina Minsk Little School
("On the aspid and a basilisk of advanced and the transpex of the lion and the serpent")

... I threw back my head and let's kiss it. And then as I hit - and I beat everything and I can’t stop. I barely dragged me from him, and I cry, I liked him, and what am I.

Photography, paper, gouache, materials for children's creativity

3.

Anna Murmansk Cardiotissa
(Core)

... So they say: "And this is theft, you will go to our camps for this." And I tell them: “For twenty years, I have come from the school here, I didn’t take a piece for myself, these are the children, if they did not give a little or not, so I gave my portion, and how much oil was, there was a kilogram, but I have a porridge, everything is by GOST, I’m hanging myself” - and I cry. And they say: "You fool, you think: who is more needed for us - are you with your kilo or he, a serious person?" "So I did not take the same kilo!" - I say and cry. And they say: "You are a stupid."

Photography, paper, gouache, beads, materials for children's creativity

4.

Selivan and Evgeny Stepniki Kazakh

"... there is nothing to be afraid of." And he says: "Why are you, e **?" And I say: “Go to x **, which immediately e ** talked. Have you read at least one book in your shitty life? When you are, there is no death, when there is death - you are not. It stinks with diesel fuel, [NRZB] Come on soon, ”I say. And he says: "Are you mutilated from Nizhny Tagil, this is what your first throw?" And I to him: "Well, x*is that the first, what are you before*?" And he splashed under my feet with diesel fuel, struck a match and said: "So right now I’ll throw a match - scary?" I almost got comfortable, he was e*.

Photography, paper, gouache, materials for children's creativity

5.

Natalia Tukhachevskaya
("Faithing stronghold")

... exclude from October. Grandma came, and we excluded him at the meeting. His grandmother came and began to ask, began to say: “If you exclude him from October, what will happen to him next?” And Natasha says: "Such as him, discloses the high title of Soviet October." And his grandmother says: "So he is short -sighted at all, he did not see what is lying there, forgive him, children." And the teacher says: "This is the case of the detachment, I can’t solve anything, it can only a detachment." And Natasha says: "What can you say in your defense?" He cries and says: "I have not seen what is lying there." And Natasha says: "You don't have shame."

Photography, paper, gouache, beads embroidery, materials for children's creativity

6.

Jacob Gomel potter

... in an empty car, like kings. And then he bursts and says: "And I will go with you." Well, they say to him: "Did you go crazy, also wanted to shit with blood?" And he: "Maybe he wanted." And he rode with us all the way, and carried the pots, and wiped it, and fed from a spoon, but he did not get sick. So he stood in the first battle and stood in a pillar until ...

Photography, paper, gouache, materials for children's creativity

7.

Yalta Virgin
("Word of the flesh of the beot")

... examined me like that, and he was there alone, so he asks: "Girl, want to go with us a beer?" I thought: “And what, I’ll go” - and say: “Yes.” And he: "Well, call when you will be young."

Paper, gouache, materials for children's creativity

8.

Maria Novocherkasskaya and baby Sevostian
("Help the killed")

“... Take the card”, and the card on the sixth floor. I'm going, I walked for two hours, and the doctor to meet me - and begins to shout: “Do you want me to give birth to give birth to you? So I can! Look at the department, there is nothing to walk here. ” And she sent me for the card, this is on the sixth floor. He says: "Go lie down, let it go after the card." I went [NRZB] said you yourself go. " And she is so with a subsidiary: “The doctor will leave, and I will stay. I’ll arrange such a life here that the birth will seem to be a holiday. Well, I scratched the card! " [NRZB] ... My swallow, my mother will never offend you. " I went to the kitchen, took a rolling pin there, [NRZB] Drink tea, and I am this sister right in an open mouth.

Photography, paper, gouache, materials for children's creativity

9.

Iphigenia and Tatiana Box 2312
("Heart is one")

And Polyakovskaya says to me: so you have been going on, and if I went on maternity leave, they would still know everything, but I don’t care, but that I don’t care is that then [NRZB] for a third of the five -year plan [NRZB] let [NRZB], the day after tomorrow I will go, and I don’t need money, I put it off the thirteenth, and not in me at all, but that’s the third one and that and that for the third one, but that is the third one. Five -year -olds do not do this with the team, and I only cry about that you could think about me like that.

Photography, paper, gouache, materials for children's creativity

10.

Barbara world -den

... But there are no others, I ran to the department store, they stand in the woman’s department, and I am in the hospital in a week, I tell them: “Well, give at least some, you probably have it for yourself!” And they ... "Yes, you went to the ass, - I say, - I will give birth barefoot!" And they: "How old are you at all?"

Photography, paper, gouache

11.

Lad Mitrofan Cheboksarsky
("Your slave")

“... it’s not my underpants,” and he says: “The chicken got up, the place was gone,” and I say: “Give me, I didn’t write, you were written, let them punish you,” and he ... and he ...

Photography, paper, gouache, materials for children's creativity

12.

Konstantin Peterhof
("My soul manages"))

... So while Dad was alive, he did not allow. “Catch,” he said, “pike, and a grenade in her stomach.” And he was afraid of all this grenade, even did not eat fish.

Photography, paper, gouache, materials for children's creativity

The author of reproductions is Sasha Alekhov