"Diary of a Russian soldier who was held captive by Chechens for ten months", S. Belyaev, sheet 1

Year: 2021
Medium: Pastel dry, retouch, paper
Size: 49x59

“Hospitality is their first duty, and it is sinful and shameful to refuse to ask anything.” This is how many people are described in the book. This is not a fiction novel with a twisted plot, but rather a detailed live sketch-diary of a man who passed through captivity during the Caucasian War and carefully studied the life of the enemy. These are not local legends from the inside, from the Chechen, but the whole way of life through the eyes of a man with a completely different past. It is interesting to see how a few hundred years ago a person perceives a new world for him. He lived with them, and they lived with him, and he lived with them.

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