– In this pandemic, there is one undeniable positive side – reflects Tetyana Bodnaruk, – many people have the opportunity to think about yourself and your life. She caught me at the cottage, which I usually “came” on Friday evening, just for half a day or two.
What she knew about the cottage? In Kapustino sleep better. More audible birds. In winter – whiter than the snow and two degrees colder, the temperature goes down right behind the dacha gate. But over the past spring and summer a small pocket dictionary country advantages turned into an encyclopedia of feelings and observations.
For three month in country quarantine my Facebook has turned into a solid garden report. Morning – rose unsolved, tomorrow is half-open, the next day – with rain drops, then fallen after a storm. I’ve never watched the changes every day in the garden, and now live it.
that was a short emotional distraction, standing almost three hours sitting in suburban traffic, was open-ended discovery. Not platitudes, but real truths. For example, the understanding that nature and art are similar.
the Earth (nature) often enters our lives as a favorite person you’ve met, but I don’t know that’s your favorite. Therefore, when 25 years ago Tatiana and her husband heard from a University friend Volodya Hrapova unexpected phrase “we Need to get used to the ground”, she almost did not agree: I do not want no time, almost nothing on earth can do. Well, that is my mom and my sister are doing in Ryazan garden, I’m not one of those who always dreamed to grow cucumbers.
the Husband seems faster hear the words University a new formula for life.
Habituation to earth person with artistic interests, as a rule, ends with the victory of beauty over the thought about the benefits. You start a business “in a General manner” – 6 acres near noisy Egorievsk highway, shovel, hoe, saw in hand, and all of it pretty quickly turns into a small, self-built, cozy cottage and totally captured the colors of the plot. “You have anything useful put – hopeless sneered the husband over floral preferences wife’s sister. – Garlic, for example. Dill”. Tatiana is not a remedy for the type of man young photos so just a Metropolitan girl in the style of Natalia Selezneva from “Operation y”. Garlic dill they have on the site never showed up, but a bow, Yes, here’s the onion.
When, together with new work husband had the opportunity to buy the house and land away from the big and buzzing the highway, it was not the story in a series of “we are rich”. Rather, all of the same, suggested a friend “you get Used to the ground really.”
Arriving in country, the depth of Moscow region, its current Kapustino (once there really were fields planted cabbage), they are the most excited by the local aboriginal country places (near Kratovo, Malakhovka) and the absence of affluent neighbors. Wealth is not a sin, but not everyone can or wants to quickly join the race “Formula 1” on the highway of pride, prestige, envy and ostentation. Uncommon experience. And intellectual Nikolai Bodnaruk was a famous journalist, Tatiana worked in the publishing house “Art” – still have to feel, if not antagonism, it is perpendicular their intelligence wealth as class.
So they took the resulting income primarily as a field of possibilities. And the main thing – what and how to plant.
In the second country they have experienced a lot of the unromantic. Had to pull the skeletons out of the closet since the first year of purchase – the previous owner stripped 25 cm of the soil barren and covered in black peat. Traders of seeds and seedlings lie a lot, and all bought them freezes in the first winter.
And 15 acres no 6, Kapustyne it was impossible to plant spontaneously, it had to invent and design. Fellow journalists called them working in the Institute of forestry Andrew Lysikova, his small firm plot planned out and most importantly it did. From “firm” landings in Kapustino is now almost nothing left, except that the genre of garden – landscape: islets of bushes, trees, flowers and 5 small lawns. More lasting the result of their collaboration was the book “the Erotic garden”, in the process, renamed the “Gardens of love”.
in General, the birth of books at the cottage in Kapustyne the same natural as the planting of 500 varieties of Phlox.
When it came to the rights of permanent residents, the mother and sister of the hostess, the daughter decided that for an out in the 91 (!) year retired mother will be a little country walks, favorite books, and resentment when the “Grand Opera” will be awarded not someone she considers worthy of an award.
As with Lysikova, mom ended up with a plan, and then the creation of the book. Having signatures photos of his grandparents from the XIX century, she was fascinated and eventually passed to the daughters instead of short signatures, 20 pages of their common ancestry. Her medical teaching handwriting was found not to be decrypted, and in ‘ 94 she sat down at the stranger before the laptop and she typed the book.
About how her husband and all his brothers returned from the war received higher education, having trained mostly on the doctors and the military. He lived a beautiful and smooth life, without dramas and tragedies, is that my husband in the early 50’s was standing in the hallway all small black suitcase.
a Book about the great women artists can be considered the third book the fruit of Kapustino. Without him it would not be so.
– I am gone: my God, rose is absolutely fantastic. Roses Lucy ( sister of the hostess – approx. ed.) StAla to do recently. And before doing the Phlox, irises and peonies.
Tatyana’s sister neither Phlox nor to roses does not admit (“You’re not even weed!”). But the Phlox and roses let her to him without any jealousy.
Garden Tetyana Bodnaruk experienced its Acme, when the wife of Andrew Lysikova and owner of the travel Agency arranging trips at the best private gardens of the world ( from Belarus to the Netherlands) brought to them in Kapustyne bus with tourists – to admire one of the masterpieces of the suburban.
Tatiana, remembering this trip, in a hurry to settle when it comes to the high country culture of the Moscow region, and in a hurry to humble; when talking about her garden “Our garden is very mediocre”. But if you compare it with professional gardens, landscape designers come up with and employ gardeners. But this is part of a special market, and expensive.
– Our garden amateurish than me and mil. As soon as the start of something professional, I lose interest – shrugs Tatiana. – Life is not enough, if you do it right. So I was quite happy garden a certain approximation.
It is the incomparable charm of tall garden amateurishness she like the smell of roses and Phlox, breathed, leaving in tours of the best private gardens abroad.
– No, London doesn’t need England know only trains in small towns and villages. And we have traveled and all the gardens in the North of France.
In the Netherlands, it was struck by the thickness of the Handbook of private gardens open to visit – 8.
a Garden is a way of life, worldview… If you want to see life from the inside, go to the private garden. You can see, for example, in the Netherlands hedonistic drinker a green thumb, or something different, but of the living “to the fullest”. This is a different angle of view on human life and the country than a tourist, considering the sights, – Tatyana smiles.
last year, they watched rose, passing the castles of the Loire. This year because of the quarantine reason most likely, will not. But in excess he kapustinskaya garden. Here, the result of spring and summer stay in the background of the Phlox and roses, she realized that she in edited books (“Great women artists”) is not the right name. The English translation is weak and requires a huge amount of updates. The texts in it are not equivalent and some frankly weak. She, in addition to Goncharova, Serebryakova, loves Italians. Did she all this in Moscow? Said that most likely, no. Only here, among the fallen storm of roses all becomes so clear, x-ray. Like the smell of blossoming lime trees, mixing with the smell of grass, it helps.
she, of course, had a “philosophy garden”: a garden is always the promise of something new. But it turned out that the garden is a PR��the manufacturer of inner clarity and high taste.
– I Have never had such leisure as this year in the country – surprised. – Rather work mixed with leisure. Work less, but you don’t spend time on the road, empty conversations in the office, drinking tea.
But Facebook turns into a chronicle of the life of Kapustino. “I was involved, I have little to photograph a flower, I try to make songs, “push” different pictures”.
the Smell of flowers, grass and earth somehow helps her to understand that she loves and appreciates Goncharov and Serebryakov, why it is so important, “anatocismo”, experience Tretyakov, Shchukin and Morozov.
– I always knew that the art “draws” values of the person and the inestimable value of his life. Well, who would know what Kyrgyzstan is, not whether Chingiz Aitmatov? Here is an example of great “design” of life in art. But the garden is also a very meaningful decoration of our life. More than we used to think.
she, at least, new shape, book-garden plan – a series “Monuments of architecture of Moscow” to continue a book on the protected gardens of the capital. Little because who knows, that in Moscow more than 110 government-protected parks and gardens.
