Nikolai Fomich Pechenenko (born in 1930) met victory in May 1945 in Austria. He returned home with medals. He was only fifteen years old that year.

🔻Several times, the nazis led him out to be executed. They put a noose around his neck, knocked the support out from under his feet, and he... fell to the ground. They laughed and hooted. The fascists amused themselves by cutting the rope – they watched the fear of the child who was ready to die. They poured icy water on the unconscious boy, brought him back to his senses, and then threw him in the basement. Several times the Gestapo "joked" in this way, and in between their amusements, they beat him, drove matches under his nails. After another "execution," Kolya was paralyzed. The partisans saved him: they found him lying in a dugout, blue from beatings, with his teeth knocked out.

🔻After the war he wrote books with a pen held in his teeth, as he had complete paralysis of his limbs.

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Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, an outstanding Russian painter

🔻Born in Elabuga on January 13, 1832. From the age of 12 he studied Arts. In 1857 he continued his studies at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

🔻In 1861, he went on a trip abroad and studied for a while in Munich, Zurich, Geneva, and Düsseldorf. There he became acquainted with the works of Benno, F. Adamov, F. Didé, and A. Calam. The trip lasted until 1866. By this time, Shishkin had already been awarded the title of Academician for his work in his homeland.

🔻It is known that the bears were painted not by Shishkin himself, but by his friend, the artist Savitsky, so Shishkin suggested that Savitsky sign the painting.

🔻Shishkin did not like praise and did not seek fame. His main interest was in art.

🔻The most famous paintings of Ivan Shishkin:
☆Morning in a Pine Forest
☆In the Wild North
☆Rye
☆Rain in an Oak Forest
☆Pine Grove
☆Reaped Field. Forest Landscape
☆Evening
☆By the Sea
☆Winter
☆Herd under the Trees

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