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Pumpkin: Celebrating the Fall Oleh Skrypka:

“I’m happy that my children have the gift of music.”

The Globe in Your Pocket: Freedom and Splendor in Monaco

Sonia Delaunay:

A Ukrainian Artist Who Conquered the Fashion World

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2 | culinary

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Pumpkin pudding Pumpkin pudding is an extremely easy, delicious, and dietary dish that is bound to appeal to both adults and children. It requires no special culinary skills or sophisticated ingredients.

Ingredients: 1/2 lb. of a pumpkin; 2 carrots; 3 apples; a handful of raisins; 1 egg; 1 teaspoon sugar; a pinch of salt; cinnamon (to one’s taste); 3 tablespoons of flour; 1 teaspoon of baking soda.

Directions Soak the raisins in hot water, until they become soft. Peel the pumpkin and carrots and grate them. You can also grate or dice the apples. Mix the chopped vegetables and fruits. Add salt, sugar, cinnamon, egg, flour, and the softened raisins. Mix everything well together until soft. Cover a baking pan with an oiled parchment paper and pour the batter onto it. Bake in an oven preheated to 180-200 C for 20-30 minutes. Spread cream on top of it or sprinkle with chopped walnuts. Decorate it as you wish.

Pumpkin: Celebrating the Fall Could you think of a better way to celebrate the fall than with a pumpkin? Its bright orange color is reminiscent of the blazing sun and fits just perfectly with the autumn palette. There are two varieties of pumpkin: decorative and culinary. Decorative pumpkin is planted along fences and summerhouses and used as Halloween centerpieces and decorations. A culinary pumpkin is a perfect ingredient for a vast variety of dishes – from soups and side dishes to desserts and pastries.

If you hear someone say they don’t like pumpkin, it simply means they have not yet found their favorite pumpkin dish.

South America is thought to be where the pumpkin originate. It is known to have grown there several thousand years ago. The natives used to roast pumpkins on the fire and bake them filled with milk, honey and spices. They also made houseware and musical instruments from the wizened fruits. Sun-dried strips of pumpkin were used to make mattings. Even today, the traditional Indian vessel for brewing yerba mate is made from a tiny pumpkin of a special sort.

In the sixteenth century the first pumpkins came to Europe and later spread throughout Russia and Ukraine. There is an interesting tradition connected to pumpkins in Ukraine.

Historically, a suitor that came to propose to a girl and was not amiable to her was given a pumpkin – it was a girl’s way of hinting at his immaturity and the need to grow up.

Today, this vegetable is admired all over the world. There is even a pumpkin capital – the city of Morton, Illinois. This is a place to go if you want to taste the

best pumpkin in the world – and they can offer you more than 50 first rate sorts of pumpkin.

The pumpkin is admired for its wonderful taste, nutritional value, and long shelf life. Not only the fruit’s flesh is used in cooking and alternative medicine, but also its juice, seeds, leaves and flowers.

The flesh and seeds of pumpkins are full of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Pumpkins are a source of vitamin A (it helps your eyesight), vitamin T (extremely rare, stimulates platelet formation and better blood clotting), vitamins C and E, vitamins of the B group, etc. Iron, potassium, and dietary fibers are abundant in this vegetable that makes it an indispensable diet component for ensuring cardiovascular and gastrointestinal health. Pumpkin seeds deliver zinc, which is necessary to heal prostate glands and skin rashes. Seeds are rich in essential fatty acids and combat tapeworms but at the same time are harmless for humans. The pumpkin flesh is a low-calorie product – only 22 cal per 100 g – and is perfectly suitable for a healthy diet. Due to the fact that pumpkin is easily digested, it is highly recommended for young children and elderly people.

There is a vast variety of recipes of pumpkin dishes. For example, the most common in Europe are soups, puddings, salads,

and puree. In Styria, Austria, they make pumpkin schnapps and brew pumpkin coffee. In Armenia, this vegetable is roasted, stewed with lentil, stuffed with nuts or rice, or is added to a traditional pilaf. In India, authentic halva is made also of pumpkin. A traditional Russian dish is pumpkin porridge, which is commonly cooked with millet or rice. In addition to this, these fruits are marinated, added to stews, or baked in the oven with sour cream. You can also use it to make delicious jelly, jam, pancakes, cutlets, pies, and dumplings. Pumpkin desserts with honey, dried fruits, nuts, and spices stand out for their beautiful color and spicy taste.

For culinary experiments it is better to choose small fruits weighting 3-5 kg.

Little pumpkins are less watery, their flesh is sweeter and richer in flavor. The peel should be smooth, free from dark spots, cracks, and other defects. A dry and dark central stem is a sign of a ripe pumpkin.

The nuances of the preparation of a pumpkin severely affect its final taste.

Pumpkin dishes may sometimes be somewhat tasteless. That is why adding lavish spices as well as other fruits and vegetables of rich flavor is highly recommended. Baking ensures a more intense flavor and scent than boiling or steaming. That’s why baked pumpkin is so often used in soups. Pumpkin is an excellent basis for various dishes and offers you a lot of space for culinary creativity.

Text: Olga SINYUGINA

4 | interview

Oleh Skrypka: ‘I’m happy that my children have the gift and wish to play music’ Oleh Skrypka is one of the most famous and interesting Ukrainian musicians. Next year the band Vopli Vidopliasova, whose unchallenged long-standing leader is Skrypka, will turn 30.

However, the VV front man is such a restless and creative person that one group is not enough for him. That’s why he always experiments on stage: both with other groups and solo as a DJ. Oleh Skrypka also proved himself as a brilliant organizer: his main organizational brainchild is the famous festival Krayina Mriy (The Country of Dreams), existing already for 12 years. Our talk with Skrypka embraces all his roles – artistic, managerial, and even parental. By the way, until recently Oleh had been unwilling to talk about his private life. It was always so, but now he is ready to talk even about this because his sons have grown and become artists.

– Oleh, your festival Krayina Mriy has existed already for 12 years.

Do you remember how everything began?

– The first Krayina Mriy was held in Kyiv, in the summer of 2004. At that time Leonid Kuchma was President of Ukraine.

A record number of patriots wearing vyshyvanky (embroidered blouses) came to the festival on Spivoche Pole! When people altogether sang the anthem of Ukraine, everyone felt how strong and solidary Ukrainians were. That was the first time I heard such a massive performance of our anthem! Krayina Mriy is the biggest Ukrainian festival and gathers the best Ukrainian bands. It is first of all for those who like tradition, high quality, and atmosphere. One more thing that our festival is trying to do is to promote new bands.

– One of the ideological principles of Krayina Mriy is the philosophy of a successful and prosperous country. What does Ukraine lack in this context now?

– So far, we do not pay enough public attention to successful and effective projects. All around, there are lots of fuss and events that do not deserve attention. There are many conjunctures.

People cannot distinguish a worthy project from a worthless one, high quality from low quality.

When we pay attention to quality things, use only quality products, communicate with people who make this quality, then lots of good will be around us.

– If you were to divide your activity into creative and musical and into managerial and organizational, which one is most enjoyable to you?

– I like to be on stage most of all. I like to take part in wellorganized art events. Ten years ago, when I understood that I not always felt comfortable as an artist at the events I was invited to, I began to organize my own ones. So Krayina Mriy festival appeared. Since then, I spend nearly one fourth of my time on organizational activity. And all the rest of my time I dedicate to music and creativity.

– Preparing for the talk with you, I asked a dozen of my friends what three Vopli Vidopliasova songs are there favorite, what songs they are ready to sing right at the moment. Most often they named (and sang) “Vesna,” “Den narodzhennya,” and “Krayina Mriy.” Which three of your compositions would you single out?

– If to judge by demand and popularity, I agree with your friends. In fact, I can

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explain why exactly these three songs became the most popular ones. It is a social process, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the music quality in any way. In my top list, there are songs from our new album Chudovyi Svit (The beautiful world). As for three songs, I’d name the most patriotic song – “Lado,” though most of the audience doesn’t know it; the most lyrical song with a beautiful melody – “Mana” (Mirage); and since I like different symphonic elements very much, I’d name the song “Dyvo” (Miracle) in my repertoire. At present I am most proud of these three compositions.

– Apart from VV, you’ve always had other projects: jazz-cabaret, DJing… Recently you launched your solo single “Za Khmaramy” (Behind the clouds). What is special about this project?

– “Za Khmaramy” is a lyrical song that is the start of the project that unites all genres of music: rock, folk, jazz, electronic and even symphonic music… I always liked symphonic sound. It’s a certain symbiosis of Oleh Skrypka, one more side of me. It’s just interesting for me. It’s interesting to go ahead and experiment, not to stand still. Also it’s nice to unite people: the best musicians and arrangers are gathered in the orchestra involved in this project.

– Until recently you’d kept you private life secret. And suddenly for the cover page of a glossy magazine, you posed with your sons: 10-yearold Roman and 7-year-old Ustym. What prompted you to lift the veil?

– My sons are artists too: they perform on stage, sing in the children’s ensemble Rayhoroodok. They are grown-up enough, particularly for artistic activity as publicity. Before the photo session, I asked them whether they are ready for this. They answered “yes,” so it was their choice. When my children were little I had no right to use them in the public sphere without their agreement and conscious wish. Now, when my sons from time to time perform with me on stage, they are ready for such creative work. By the way, Roman and Ustym cope well with posing before the camera!

– Your sons followed in your footsteps – they are artists. When you started to notice their artistic skills, did you become happy or did you feel some inner protest?

– I’m happy that my children have the gift and the wish to play music.

But my parental task is first of all to bring them up as personalities so that in the future they can manage their lives, including the creative process.

It’s important for me that they make decisions by themselves – to be on the stage or not, does it satisfy them or not. It’s impossible to make a child be an artist. He himself has to bring up that what is called “artist,” cultivate it in himself.

– You have two sons and two daughters. Being a father, what traits do you foster in the boys and which ones in the girls?

– By the way, it’s an important philosophical question – should we educate children at all? There are lots of cases when parents educate and educate children, and in the end they do everything vice versa. And there are cases when children grow up without parents and become excellent people. I think that the best education parents can give their children is a good exam-

ple. Children feel the atmosphere that reigns in the home and family. If this atmosphere is comfortable for them, they will model their parents. If not, they will do everything the wrong way. That’s why the main task of parents is to create comfort, a proper and constructive atmosphere at home. I’m not an ideal parent. It’s important for me that my children grow up happy, but at the same time I feel that order has to be present at home. When children have too much uncontrolled freedom, it can lead to destruction. That’s why I’m for a balance. At least, I try to cultivate it in my family.

Text: Halyna Huzyo Photo: Press service of Oleh Skrypka

6 | History

November 1

Birthday of Korchma on Profsoyuznaya Street Feast Day of the Venerable Saint John of Rila

November 2

Feast Day of the Great Martyr Artemius

November 4

Feast Day of Our Lady of Kazan

November 7 Men’s Day

November 8

Feast Day of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki

November 10

Feast Day of the Martyr Parasceve Friday

November 12 World Quality Day

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Crowning an Exile: Ivan Bunin Receives the Nobel Prize

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awarded to the White Guard emigrant Ivan Bunin. The White Guard elite nominated and supported this desperate supporter of counterrevolution, whose recent work, inspired with motives of death, decay and fatality, seems appealing to the Swedish Academy’s elders.”

In addition to this, Russian literary elite, which believed Gorky was due to receive the award, also treated the event very dispassionately.

Marina Tsvetaeva said on this account: “I will sit on the stage and honor Bunin. To refuse means to show protest. And I’m not protesting, but I do disagree, because Gorky is so much more – more human, more distinct, more necessary – than Bunin. Gorky is the epoch, Bunin is the end of it.”

What about Bunin himself? He paid little attention to the envious attacks. He was happy because his most precious dream had come true. Together with the Nobel Prize came recognition and financial security. The prize amount was 170,331 krones, equal to around

715,000 franks. It allowed him to forget about poverty at least for a short time. Nonetheless, he did not spend the money all on himself. A big deal of it was distributed among those in need by means of organizing a special committee for this purpose. Later, he remembered that after receiving the prize, he was flooded with telegrams appealing to him for financial aid.

There is no wonder that the money did not take long to get disseminated, and the writer again could hardly make ends meet. In 1942, he wrote in his diary: “Poverty, savage loneliness, hopelessness, famine, cold and filth – all these are about my last days of life. What’s next? How much is there left for me?”

He died on November 8, 1953, and was buried at the Russian Orthodox cemetery SainteGeneviève-des-Bois outside Paris. In addition to Ivan Bunin, the Nobel Prize was given to four other Russian writers: Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Joseph Brodsky.

Cheese of Kostroma

Russian Nobel Laureates in Literature “On November 9, very far from here in a poor country house in an old Provencal town, I received a telephone call that informed me of the choice of the Swedish Academy.” With these words a Russian poet started his Nobel speech in 1933.

He received the most prestigious literature award far away from his home country, as he was forced to leave Russia for his opposition to the Bolshevik regime. After being awarded the prize, he immediately became famous. From a virtually little-known exile he turned into a world-known celebrity.

International Students’ Day November 17

International Students’ Day

November 20

Universal Children’s Day

November 21

Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel

November 22

Feast Day of the Icon of the Mother of God «Quick to Hearken»

November 26

Feast Day of John Chrysostom Thanksgiving Day

November 27

Feast Day of Philip the Apostle

November 28

Birthday of Korchma on Makhovaya Street Beginning of the Nativity Fast (till January 6)

November 29

Feast Day of Saint Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist Mother’s Day in Russia

November 30

Feast Day of Nikon of Radonezh

In the spring of 1920, Ivan Bunin and his wife left Bolshevik Russia and moved to Paris. By that time, Bunin had already authored several short stories, but his most significant pieces were written in emigration – Sunstroke, The Life of Arsenyev, Dark Avenues. As an emigrant, he found new friends and met other men of letters.

In 1922, French writer Romain Rolland, excited about his Russian friend’s prose, decided to propose his candidacy for the Nobel Prize. The Committee considered Bunin, but eventually presented the award to another writer.

Despite this, neither Bunin nor his friends despaired. The writer needed that award for one simple reason – not for the acknowledgement, but for the considerable sum of money it could bring.

He lived in the outskirts of Paris, struggled to keep a household, and was in constant financial trouble. The Nobel Prize was the sole way out of poverty.

That life-changing day came on the 10th of November, 1933, when the Nobel Committee published an official note that said: “According to the decision of the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Ivan Bunin for the strict artistry with

which he has recreated the classical Russian traditions in prose writing.” In fact, he received the prize for The Life of Arsenyev, which is thought to be a biographical story.

He left for the Award Ceremony amid the hype of the Russian emigration. Emigres from Bolshevik Russia greeted him warmly and treated this award as their own victory.

Bunin’s photos appeared in every newspaper and in almost every bookshop window. Even the passers-by recognized the Nobel Laureate in the streets. Bunin felt uneasy at such greetings and often complained in murmur: “They take me for an opera singer…”

But the reaction to the award in Russia was rather ambiguous. It could be explained by Bunin’s previous hardline publications in the press and his unprecedented novel Cursed Days: a Diary of Revolution that teemed with hatred toward Bolsheviks. And so the Russian papers reported the event impassively and without Bunin’s photos. He was called no other than a “desperate supporter of counterrevolution.” Meanwhile, The Literacy Gazette wrote about him: “According to the latest news, the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1933 was

Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), a prominent Russian poet and the laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958. He was awarded the prize «for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition.»

Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984), a Soviet writer, the laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965. He was honored with the prize «for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people.»

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), a Russian writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 «for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.»

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), a poet and the laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. The award was given to him “for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity.»

A little tangy and sourish with a creamy texture, the salient characteristics of Kostroma cheese is on a par with the famous Dutch cheese Gouda. But you don’t have to go to Holland to buy such a product, because this popular cheese of the USSR is available today in Russia. The production of this cheese was launched in Russia in 1878 under the thorough control of merchant Vladimir Blandov.

At that time the cheese was regarded as a genuine culinary miracle and an exquisite delicacy. Only the rich could afford to take pleasure in the cheese at special celebrations.

Regular peasants, however, could not afford to buy it.

It did not take long for the cheese of Kostroma to gain enormous popularity. It spread not only throughout the Russian provinces but outside the country. It is no wonder that the business proved to be very profitable and Blandov’s experience was taken over by many landlords and tradesmen. Judging from archive materials, we can understand the wide scale of the production. For example, the cheese factory in the village of Andreevskoye, that employed only four people, produced around 13 tons of cheese in the first year of its operation. As everything was done manually at the factory, the production process was really exhaustive and time-consuming.

The situation changed a bit after the revolution of 1917. Cheese factories began to develop and gain momentum. Still, separators, butter churns and centrifuges were set in motion manually and the production process was conducted in wooden containers.

The cheese factories of Kostroma reached their peak in production in the 1970s-90s. At that time the factories in the Susaninskiy district alone produced 570 tons of cheese per year. The cheese was made with natural ingredients: with milk and no chemical additives. The only things allowed in its production were rennet, fermenting bacteria, salt and calcium. According to the recipe, the cheese needed to be left to age for at least 45 days before consumption. This is what made the product extremely delicious and admired by many Soviet families.

8 | Travelling

The Freedom and Splendor of Monaco and Monte Carlo “Life is like a fairytale.” We all often hear these words being spoken about other people’s seemingly carefree lives. Everyone would like to live in a fairytale, but not everyone knows that there is a tiny country on the European continent whose people have actually been living in a fairytale for several decades already.

In the 1960s, a prominent Hollywood film star and the Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly did a lot for the homeland of her husband Prince Rainier III and their children. During a conflict that arose between this microscopic state and France, the beautiful woman secured its independence. During this time she delivered lunches to the French checkpoint and in doing so she won the hearts of regular soldiers.

In the meantime, she organized a charity ball and delivered such a soulful speech that she tugged at the heartstrings of the President of France. But movie star Grace Kelly was not the only celebrity who lived in Monaco, in Monte Carlo. This fairytale is also the home of many well-heeled and prominent tennis champions and Formula One drivers, an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor Gina Lollobrigida, the best James Bond of all times, Sir Roger George Moor, and the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.

Malizia in the history of Monaco It takes just over an hour by bus to get from French Nice along the Cote d’Azur of the Alpes-Maritimes department in the direction of the historical Èze. Without any passport control we enter the territory of Monte Carlo, a city of one of the richest and happiest countries in the world, the Principality of Monaco. The splendor, the beauty, and the landscapes of these places feature beautifully in the film Monte Carlo and in the biopic Grace of Monaco presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.

The Principality of Monaco with its old town of Mo-

naco-Ville is located on a rock. When you lift your head, you can see only the outlines of the princely palace from the seafront. But we arrived there not just to admire the landscapes, to see the Formula One Grand Prix track and the famous casinos. For this reason, we leave behind the harbor and the artificial skating rink where teenagers are busy skating at a temperature of 64°F. We cross the road and pass by the monument to Formula One racer Juan Manuel Fangio standing next to his Mercedes-Benz.

He won the World Drivers’ Championship five times in the 1950s.

We take an asphalt uphill road. On the way up, the organizer of our journey Yura tells us the story about Francesco Grimaldi, an Italian by origin, also nicknamed “Malizia,” which means “cunning” in Italian. In the late 13th century, he insidiously found his way to the palace in the guise of a Franciscan monk with a hood on his head. He was assisted by a group of conspirers. This is how Francesco Grimaldi came to power. The legends, old as the hills, are like official documents of the historical lands. In Monaco, the story of the ruling Grimaldi family has sculptural reflections too.

Francesco’s descendants have been ruling the country up to the present. Rainier III, the husband of Princess Grace Kelly and the father of currently ruling Prince Albert II, belonged to this dynasty too. The monument to Rainier was erected behind fort walls of the princely palace next to its gate.

And the first monument you see behind the gate is a monk’s figure in a hood.

“Memorials” to Princess Grace and St Martin Gardens Several minutes after our arrival at the square, at high noon, the guard is changed in front of the princely palace.

From the observation deck you can see the pan-

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orama of the Mediterranean coastline with moored yachts at a pier and houses with rooftop gardens, real but petrified cannons line the fortification walls and gaze into remoteness. Everything here is a reminder of the most famous ruler of Monaco, Princess Grace, who died in 1982. We see the institution with a sign “La Fondation Princesse Grace” on the street. This is the Princess Grace Foundation, which she established in 1964. It annually gives grants for the implementation of children’s and students’ humanitarian and cultural projects. Numerous photos of the princess on the streets of Monaco-Ville tell us about her life. There is a painting of the wedding ceremony of Princess Grace and Rainier III in the Cathedral, the official royal burial place. The sculptures in this temple are special too. A smiling Christ has opened his arms to embrace the whole world.

Restaurants and pizzerias in Monaco are usually Italian. Two of us go to eat lunch and the other four, including me (I’ll eat Italian dishes in Italy), have a different program in mind. We each buy two scoops of ice-cream in a waffle cone and enjoy them while admiring the landscapes.

From the temple we head for St. Martin Gardens.

There are several gardens in Monaco, and this is one of the few parks open to the public. Numerous Mediterranean trees and plants are concentrated here, among them you may at times come across human handiwork. A playful fountain here, and bronze sculptures in various corners over there. There is a naked couple hugging each other called “Invitation”; and a young woman sending off her knight to war called “Hector and Andromache”; and a beautiful woman looking in the mirror and enjoying her appearance called “Maryse at the Mirror,” or rather, “The Unchangeable Time”; a woman with two faces called “The Crossroads of Life,” a bright multicolored bird, an octopus… On a small landing over the sea stands the sculpture of Prince Albert with a wheel in his hands who gazes into the sea with fluttering gulls. Prince Albert was the founder of the Oceanographic Museum and an institute of the same name, which are located right near the park.

By the way, Monaco gulls are very friendly toward people and let them stand very closely.

“Rich life…It’s different” A day is enough to go see Monaco and Monte Carlo on foot. We pass by the Opera House and enter the world of casinos. There are dozens of such gambling places in the city, but only out-of-towners are allowed to play there. Gambling is forbidden to Monaco’s citizens by law. We enter a small casino. There are many elderly women among the gamblers.

“Rich life… It’s different.” Our talented friend and singer Halyna Voloshchuk from Kyiv summarizes everything we’ve seen.

The gambling industry brings the lion’s share of revenue to the local treasury along with luxury tourism. Expensive cars such as Ferraris, Bentleys, and Lamborghinis are parked in front of the biggest casino of the city. Next to the road there is a square

with a mirror lens called “Heavenly Mirror,” in which the surrounding landscapes are reflected in a spherical shape.

“The majority of Monte Carlo’s population is French, Monegasque, and Italian. Besides, there are numerous representatives of other nations,” Yura says as he continues to show us around the city.

“The people who live here are completely exempt from taxes.”

“It’s such an attractive place for emigration. But it’s not for the middle class,” I comment on the information about tax exemption. I take a deep breath of the fresh Mediterranean air and of the feeling of the absolute security that prevails in Monte Carlo.

“Yes, but it is closed for emigrants,” specifies Yura.

Text and photos by Olesya Olendiy

10 | persone

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Sonia Delaunay: A Ukrainian Artist Who Conquered the Fashion World

The name of Sonia Delaunay is hardly known in her home country. But in Europe and in the US her work is still exhibited in the most prestigious galleries. The artist, Ukrainian by origin, has become a true legend there. She is recognized as a great artist of abstractionism and art-deco.

Not only did she paint pictures, but she also started a unique fashion design and developed a new textile pattern. Dresses with her ornaments were spotted on Hollywood actresses and beauties of that time. After all, Sonia Delaunay was the first living Ukrainian artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre.

Sonia was born in Ukraine in 1885. Her parents died young and she was raised by her uncle who was a successful lawyer in Saint Petersburg. He gave her a good education and the possibility to travel to Europe and see the best museums of France, Germany, and Italy.

Her family wanted her to become a mathematician. But in school she preferred painting and drawing to the compass and dry formulas. One of her teachers noticed that the student perceived the world in her own special way and that she drew beautifully. He met her parents and convinced them to let her study in an arts school. Sonia Delaunay first went to study in Germany, at a Fine Arts Academy, and then she moved to Paris.

The academic setting in school did not satisfy the Ukrainian girl. Instead of wasting her time at boring lectures she went to galleries, spent time with radical French youth, and admired the creativity of Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri Rousseau.

At the age of 23, Sonia married a German critic and art gallery owner Wilhelm Uhde. It is assumed to have been a marriage of convenience. The hus-

band was a homosexual who wanted to mask this fact from the public eye. The Ukrainian had her own interest in this marriage. She was little known at the time, but through this marriage she gained access to free gallery spaces to exhibit her work.

For whatever reason, their marriage didn’t last.

Two years later Sonia left Uhde for a talented abstractionist artist Robert Delaunay and assumed his name, which would later bring her highest recognition. This artistic tandem turned out to be extremely fruitful and strong. Sonia and Robert started a new trend in visual arts, which they name simultaneism.

It occurs when one design or element, when placed next to another, affects both pieces. It createsan effect of the transition of objects, an illusion of movement, through aplay with colors and light. It resembles sun circles in sync with each other. The artist’s first large-scale painting in this style was BalBullier.

It was also the time when Sonia Delaunay took up creating textile patterns, embroidery, and interior design. She turned her newborn son’s blanket into an art object. She took different colored patches of fabric and stitched them combining the colors

intuitively into an extraordinary pattern. The quilt became a real masterpiece and is still exhibited at the Musée National d’ArtModerne in Paris.

That is when the Ukrainian artist experienced a stroke of genius. She realized that fashion design could use a bit of avant-garde and would only benefit from it. The artist started making dresses with fabric collages that were met with some controversy but also spurred commotion and disputes in the media…

During World War I, the couple was forced to leave France and to move to Spain and later to Portugal. At that time Sonia learned about the 1917 revolution in Russia and realized she couldn’t be supported by her uncle from Saint Petersburg any longer. She decided to earn her own living by her decorative art. She literally tried her hand at everything: she designed clothes and shoes, playing cards, automobiles, theatrical costumes, and book illustrations. She launched her own fashion house Sonia, which sold jewelry and dresses with avant-garde design. She exhibited her works in Stockholm, Bilbao, Berlin.

When Sergey Diagilev’s troupe toured in Spain, she designed costumes for his actors.

After the end of the war Sonia returned to France. Shecontinued to work in textile design

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and in the fashion industry. She became a trendsetter in Europe. Her popularity was not limited to the European continent. In 1925, the American Vogue magazine printed her sketch on itscover.

It was a real breakthrough! Sonia Delaunay was no longer just a brand, she was a symbol of good taste and elegance. From then on, Hollywood actresses were often spotted in her designs, and artists from Saint Laurent and Missoni houses admit that the Ukrainian artist was often their muse.

Sonia gained her biggest recognition in France where she lived all her life. Shehadalarge exhibition at the Louvre and was named officer of the French Legion of Honor. When Georges Pompidou paid a visit to Richard Nixon he brought as a present one of Sonia’s paintings.

But the artist herself was pretty modest about her achievements. She admitted that she was indebted to the places of her childhood where she first saw such bright and wonderful colors: “These are the colors of my childhood, the colors of Ukraine. These are the memories of a village wedding with red and green dresses and colorful ribbons.”

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Korchma Beauty Contest

Hold Your Breath – We’re Going on Stage!

Where did you spend the last Sunday of the month? Together with our large family of the Korchma Taras Bulba restaurant chain we, as usual, arranged a spectacular celebration open to everyone! On the restaurant stage on Sadovo-Samotyochnaya Street, we chose Miss Korchma – the most intelligent, charming, and gifted beauty of our restaurant chain.

Let’s Go to Everest!

Two thousand employees of the Korchma Taras Bulba restaurant chain went to a screening of Everest – the film about conquering the highest peak of our planet. To give you an idea about the emotions the people had when they left the movie theater, we will share with you the feedback of Artem Datsyuk, an employee of the restaurant on Pyatnytskaya Street.

Many people probably came to the cinema because all the seats were already bought (for free). But knowing my colleagues, I would like to say the following.

Give us tickets to different movie theaters, and you’ll see as many empty seats as tickets given out for free. We have our own plans, and sometimes every minute counts, but we’ll never miss the chance to watch a film in a theater where all viewers are friends who you can share your emotions with. It’s fantastic to understand that together you’ve made a full house, as if a clumsy photo became a unique rarity in your album. To admire the strength of mind of the main characters, and at the same time to realize that the person who underwent such serious trials is worth to be proud of and you can treat him as your friend. The theater was ours, and I felt myself at home. All these emotions and more were experienced in just some three hours of our life. Thank you!

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Contestants had to demonstrate their creative skills, erudition, and miracles of improvisation in order to win the hearts of the jury, which comprised of our loyal guests!

Sixteen girls competed for the title of “the Best Beauty of the Chain”! The audience was amazed at the intensity of emotions!

Here, you could see everything: songs, dances, and real theatrical performances with decorations and suits! The variety of themes was a welcome surprise. We were lucky to see the ancient national motives, the classic rock-n-roll of the 80s, as well as contemporary themes.

Employees of all our restaurants in Moscow came to support their beauties. The most pleasant thing is that they supported not only their nominees, but all the contestants!

Special attention should be paid to the general atmosphere of the celebration! Like never before the friendliness and unity of all the present were felt!

After long discussions, with great difficulties, the jury managed to choose the best girls! But more intrigue could not be avoided. To select a winner for the third place, one more competition was added!

The final ranking was as following: 1. Intelligent beauty from the restaurant on Profsoyuznaya Street.

2. Representative of Korchma on Bochkova Street.

3. Representative of Korchma on Pyatnytskaya Street.

The winner’s speech

First of all I would like to thank everyone who supported me in this contest and I share my victory with our entire team!

I was born in Ukraine, that’s why I like this restaurant! I’ve been working at the restaurant on Profsoyuznaya Street for two years, but I was lucky to feel myself a member of one big and friendly family. The last time I participated was at school. Thanks to our team and leaders, I opened my heart. In the preparation for this contest the entire team of the Profsoyuznaya Restaurant helped me to the best of their abilities.

I would like to thank everyone who supported me.

I address all the girls participating in this contest: it was a great honor for me to compete side by side with you.

Women and beauty are synonyms. Without women and beauty life will stop. Let everyone know that this beauty should be taken care of!

I look ahead with Hope, up with Faith, aside with Love, and back with Gratitude.

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good influence on digestion, metabolism, and the nervous system. They also are used in the beauty industry as ingredients of different face and hair masks, etc. Skim milk products are irreplaceable in weight-loss diets. Kefir and cottage cheese are obligatory products in a baby’s diet since they help the correct formation of bone and teeth tissues.

Cottage cheese is used for the preparation of dishes loved by everybody: syrnyky, pancakes, varenyky, vatrushky, baked puddings, cheese cakes, etc.

Cheese indeed can be named a cult dish. To show their love, some nations even erect monuments to it. For example, in Canada, there is a monument in the form of a large delicacy cheese lump. In France, there is a statue to the inventor of Camembert cheese, Marie Harel. It is so because cheese is a perfect combination of taste and health! Eat just 80g of this tasty and rich product and you will receive your daily norm of calcium.

A cheese sandwich and an apple is an ideal snack in its energy value and content of nutrients. Of

course, only fresh and natural milk products can be beneficial.

“We are what we eat,” this old wisdom is especially relevant these days when often instead of cheese, supermarkets sell so called cheese products made of vegetable ingredients. Sour cream and cottage cheese sold in stores do not always consist of only natural products. That’s why our healthy future lies with the producers of natural products!

Mariya KRASNA

It is hard to imagine Ukrainian cuisine without excellent sour cream, delicate buttery cottage cheese, aromatic hard cheese, butter, and other milk products. Undoubtedly, the most delicious and healthy ones are those made from natural cow’s milk.

Kazachye LLC, together with Rosagroleasing OJSC, is launching a project to construct a facility for milk processing and the production of natural dairy products: different types of hard cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, butter, and cream.

Kazachye LLC is located in a pollution-free and picturesque area of the Ryazan region. Owing to the closed production cycle “from cow to table” clients will get high quality natural products. The production will use complex top-notch technological equipment from the company AgroTek. The dairy products will be used by the Korchma Taras Bulba restaurant chain. Buying them from a national producer has many advantages. First of all, it is fresh natural products supplied directly from a production site without long-term storage and transportation. Secondly, nowadays the Russian food industry in general, and milk industry in particular, has a new incentive for development in the midst of different sanctions. The national producer has all the chances to establish the production of dairy products, which are on par with foreign brands, and to satisfy the tastes of the most demanding customers. The emphasis on the products’ naturalness is the insurance of the enterprise’s prosperity and good health of the consumers.

Healthy nutrition is unthinkable without quality dairy products. They supply our body with protein, calcium, phosphorus, and have a

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Avtozavodskaya metro station,

6 Velozavodskaya St., (499) 764 1532

Akademicheskaya metro station,

16/10 Profsoyuznaya St., (499) 125 0877

Alekseyavskaya metro station, 3 Bochkova St., (495) 616 6754

Airport metro station,

64 Leningradskiy Prospekt St., (499) 151 9011

Baumanskaya metro station,

23/41 Bakuninskaya St., +7 (495) 956 55 81

Borovitskaya metro station,

8 Mokhovaya St., 24-hour, +7 (962) 918 75 38; +7 (985) 644 85 44

Krasnye Vorota metro station,

47 Myasnitskaya St., (495) 607 1762

Leninskiy Prospekt metro station,

37 Leninskiy Prospect St., (495) 954 6466

Maryino metro station,

163 Lublinskaya St., 8 (495) 349 78 09

Novokuznetskaya metro station, 14 Pyatnitskaya St., (495) 953 7153

Novye Cheryomushki metro station, Nametkina St., 13 г, (495) 331 4211

Smolenskaya metro station,

12 Smolenskiy Avenue. St., 24-hour, (499) 246 6902

Tsvetnoy Boulevard metro station,

13 Sadovaya-Samotechnaya St., 24-hour, (495) 694 0056

Chekhovskaya metro station,

30/7 Petrovka St., (495) 694 6082

Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station,

6 Borovskoye Road, (495) 980 2051

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