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Exhibition of military and historical miniatures by Volodymyr Krutous "Cossack Protextion" to the Protection of Holy Virgin Mary.

On October 13, 2016 Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum opened an exhibition of military and historical miniatures by Volodymyr Krutous "Cossack Protextion" to the Protection of Holy Virgin Mary.

The cossacks theme has always had one of leading positions in artworks. The particular importance of this issue has gained in the years of independence. It is believed that the Cossacks were first to raise the shield on the idea of an independent Ukrainian state, the Cossacks were the first defenders of Ukrainian lands, the descendants of the Cossacks are defending our land in eastern Ukraine, and the Cossacks were those who sincerely celebrated the feast of the Protection. They  believed in the power of the Holy Virgin Protection so much that for centuries in Ukraine it has developed Cossacks content and received a second name - Cossacks Protection. At Sich it was a church holiday. Virgin Mary was the patron and defender of the Orthodox army in distant campaigns. The Church of the Intercession was sacred to everybody at Cossack Sich, from its threshold Cossacks went to defend the homeland and thanked for life coming back to it after campaigns.

In autumn on the Protection Cossacks often spent joint council where reelected koshovyi chieftain and foreman. The first church in honor of the Protection Cossacks built in 1659 on Chortomlytska Sich. According to D.I. Yavornytskyi, during the existence of Sich there were 13 churches of the Virgin Intercession built. In addition, the Protection also represented motherhood - holy concept for Cossacks.

The famous explorer of Ukrainian folk customs Oleksa Voropai wrote that after the destruction of Zaporizhzhia Sich in 1775, Cossacks who went over the Danube to emigrate, took  the image of the Holy Virgin with them.

The author of the exhibition Krutous Volodymyr was born in 1969 in Kirovohrad region, now works at Kirovohrad regional state TV company as a presenter of the program "12 points" at the channel "Kirovohrad", and in his spare time for more than 30 years he is engaged with his  hobby - military-historical miniatures. As a child, Volodymyr wanted to become a soldier, but for some reason it did not work. As a boy he began to sculpt from clay figures of soldiers, then he went through a lot of material - clay, wire until he tried foam plastics. Today Volodymyr Vasyliovych mostly uses foam plastics and wood for his miniatures. During this period, an amateur artist created more than 400 works, many of which are in private collections in Denmark, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland, Russia and the USA, as well as at the stock assembly of Kirovohrad regional and Kirovohrad regional art museums. 200 works are at Kirovohrad regional general education school - a boarding-school of arts.

 

Volodymyr Vasyliovych participated in regional, national, foreign exhibitions: "Military - Historical Miniature" Kirovograd State Technical University (1988); "Development of the Russian military uniforms" Kirovohrad Regional D. Chyzhevskyi Universal Scientific Library (1993), "Development of the Russian military uniforms" Kirovohrad Regional D. Chyzhevskyi Universal Scientific Library (1994), "War of 1812" Central House of Artists ( Moscow, 1996); "Allies and enemies of Ukraine» Kirovohrad Regional Museum (1998), "Ukrainian army - the origins and development" Palace of Culture of Ukraine (Kyiv, 1999) and others.

Volodymyr Krutous has already been interested in period of Cossacks for over four years. He finds and collects historical materials about personalities, clothes and weapons of Cossacks.

In Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum at the personal exhibition of military and historical miniatures "Cossack Protection" by Volodymyr Krutous, that highlights the historical reconstruction of the Ukrainian Cossacks of XVII-XVIII centuries, features over 90 military and historical miniatures (images of Magi, Kharakternyky-Cossacks, Cossacks angels-guardians, chief harpers and musicians, women-Cossacks, Cossacks) from the private collection of the artist created during 2012-2016 and 8 miniatures of religious themes from stock collection of regional art museum.

The exhibition displays more than thirty authentic miniatures carved by hand from wood (poplar, linden, cherry). The average height of the figure is 5-6 cm.

There are more than 50 miniatures from foam plastics that are painted in watercolor and gouache and placed on wooden supports. In the manufacture of miniature weapons of Cossacks Volodymyr uses wood and metal, for the gear (belts) he uses the treated tissue. For hair, mustache, horse manes and tails he uses the thread. When making miniatures other natural materials are used - ground, branches of trees, stones and sand. The height of walking figures is in average 7.8 cm., of a figure on horse – up to 15 cm.

The private collection of Krutous V.V. there are more than 150 military-historical miniatures of two directions: Ukrainian military uniform (from the ancient Slavs to the soldiers of the Ukrainian People's Republic) and uniforms of Poland, Turkey and France).

 

Head of Department of scientific and educational work of

Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum

Olena Stepanok