"RUSSIAN ARMAGEDDON - THE SHELON RIVER BATTLE"
1990-1993, oil on canvas, golden foil, 195x290 cm.

RUSSIAN ARMAGEDDON - THE SHELON RIVER BATTLE_author Boris Laurentiev

Russian Armageddon, the battle between the Good and the Bad, the battle on the Sheloni River. In Europe there was Waterloo, in America - Gettysburg...The fate of the ethnos was determined by the name of a village, a river...The same happened in Russia: the Novgorod Republic - on one side, Moscow Principality - on the other. A republic, with a free entry and exit, convertible currency, and - despotism, hypocritical, vicious, also paying tribute to tatars. Citizens - on one side and slaves and knights - on the other... The brightest page of the Russian culture has closed, Russia entered that strange eclipse, from which it seems not to have come out up to now...