Another version. Anastasia Volnaya

believing in real fiction,

      Stay earthly and pure

      Teach me, dear girl.

2008 year

      To the artist`s pictures

      To the painting by Grigory Chernetsov «Dead Sea»

      Like a dream.

      Like a moan.

      A lioness running along the sea

      Like a ghost, a moment or a bird.

      And the light is silvery

      Planets of unknown

      Wonderful,

      Icy,

      Free.

2001 year

      To the canvas by Carlo Dolci «Young Christ with a bouquet of flowers»

      A boy in purple robes

      A boy like the sun

      Holding bouquet

      The brightest colors —

      The crown of a passing childhood

      Divine fate symbol.

      Christ will die young

      Christ will rise up young

      Christ the essence and beacon of faith,

      Truth and love.

      A boy in purple robes

      The boy is like the sun.

2001 year

      Angelus

      Evening as an angel sleeps on a cloud.

      In guise praying to the divine Earth

      Millet’s revelation came.

      Angelus.

1998 year

      To the landscape of Isaac Levitan «At the Pond»

      It’s evening at the pond.

      The water extinguished the mirrored suns

      Like candles.

      In the darkening distance, the last bird

      Graduated from the song.

      Forerunner

      Flight in a dream —

      A fading, melting evening.

2001 year

      We

      Dedicated to my husband Maxim Zheltov

      We are a tree.

      I am the roots.

      You are the trunk

      Going up.

      I am the branches.

      And believing

      Into each other

      We are

      One world

      And eternity.

      And God keeps us, as long as We are I.

2001 year

      To drawings by Aubrey Beardsley

      Black outlines.

      White shadows.

      By charcoal and by chalk.

      By spirit and by body.

      Images are dual