The first visitors to the exhibition were a military detachment, which included a doctor of sciences, a winemaker, several businessmen and a people’s artist, according to TSN .

Icon painter Oles is completing the installation of an exhibition of his own icons, which he painted from the very beginning of the war, when Mariupol became our outpost. Near the image of St. Peter Mariupol port. Under the medicine of the Savior and the Virgin – residential areas. And above the buildings of the plant – the Apostle Paul. Oles says when he conceived these icons, Azovstal was not yet a symbol of Mariupol’s resistance. Now Oles is surprised how accurately it turned out.

“You know, it’s about love… I think that the people who work at Azovstal, they are kept only by love. And we know who our singer of love is. This is Pavel,” Oles says.

Dmitry Kulibaba brought this exhibition to the city 74 days ago – a public figure, now a fighter: on the first day of the war he joined the ranks of the terrorist defense. He says that for the first time he saw the icon on the board from the box of cartridges on the air of TSN, during the glorification of the Ukrainian Hetman Petro Sahaydachny among the saints in Hagia Sophia . I really wanted to bring these icons here to the local temple in honor of Ataman Peter Kalnyshevsky.

“Kalnyshevsky was the last Koschevoi who did not bend and carried the idea of an independent Ukraine to the last. This is how we stand today, and I believe that perhaps we will hammer the last nail into the coffin of this empire, perhaps this is our mission, ”says Dmitry.

APU fighter Ivan photographs the icon of the Savior. He is among the first visitors to the exhibition. In civilian life, he was the dean of the history department of the Shevchenko University and one of the best specialists in the country on the history of Ukrainian nationalism. Now he is at war.

“If I had not taken this step, then, obviously, I would have died morally long ago. All that I wrote, all that I did, that I told students – all this is of little value, absolute zero, it could be thrown into the trash, because a person is actions. These are two invariable components – a weapon and a bandura, ”says the man.

People’s Artist of Ukraine Taras Kompanichenko has also been in the ranks of the terrorist defense since the first day of the war. He says that he has already transported nine instruments to the place of his current deployment: between firing he plays to raise the morale of his brothers.

“To be in this circle of people who also made this unequivocal decision for themselves – not to run away, not to roll back – this is a gift of the holy spirit. And it is a great happiness to be in this circle of these brave people,” he convinces.

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