The walls were going under the water slowly. First of all, the water reached the stone thresholds, flowed over them and began to fill the cells. It was not filling the cells one after another, it captured all of them at once as all the doors were left open. Then the water got closer to the windows. The windows of some cells were open as well, so the monastery clergymen tried to save the window-glasses. Though the glasses have gone underwater, they tried to keep them intact.  However, even the closed windows didn't burst as outside them there was water.

In 1940 the Trinity Makariev Monastery was destroyed and flooded during the construction and development of the Uglich reservoir. Founded in 1434, it was one of the richest and most revered in Russia. The Russian tsars Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov and Alexey Mikhailovich visited  it. A few hours later, the water surface reigned over the monastery walls. For a long-long time afterwards the spindrift used to appear on the surface of water above the sacred place. It was a deep feeling that the wall were breathing deep inside the water.

The Heritage project explores the subject of historical memory, preservation and re-thinking of matters that seem to be sacrosanct—the masterpieces of painting, sculpture and words. The culture and the foundations of civilization, which is widely and intensively pressed every day by industry and digitalization. Won't the cultural code eventually become the spindrift on the water surface?


The Heritage project includes 4 installations in 4 domains of culture: painting - "Bathing of a Red Horse", sculpture - "Venus ...", architecture - "Eiffel", literature - the poem by M.Y. Lermontov "The Prayer".