Here is one of my pics... Acrylic on canvas... and a story about it
When I was young girl and lived there, I loved to walk on mountains... With friends or alone. It was amazing experience of being really free.... North Caucasus is my motherland. Mountains have almost-vertical edges, and sometimes trees grow right on edges... That looks amazing... Before WW2, there were a lot of beautiful gardens near villages of native people of North Caucasus. But communists destroyed big part of those gardens because to not give it to Nazis! The communists wished to obtain the land that they took in 1920's and added it to territory of x-USSR. North Caucasus was not a part of Russian empire, it was a land where lived a lot of native people of Caucasus.The communists took the land about 20 years before WW2, so they decided to do all to not give the land to Nazis. Two thousand years there lived native people of Caucasus. Their main things to do were: agriculture, making artisan art/crafts, and trade. Geographically, a part of North Caucasus is South of Russian Federation. There is warm weather, not so-snowy cold as in Moscow, so North Caucasus is perfect for agriculture. And, North Caucasus has oil and lots of other useful sources. So here are 2 reasons why keeping this territory was very important. During WW2, the communists used trees to make bridges, firewalls and to cook food. They did not care that fruit trees are not good for making the bridge because it not strong at all. And new tree will should grow up for least 15 years before giving us a fruits... Yes, back in 1942-44, the thousand acres of beautiful trees were destroyed. It was awful time in history. Nothing nice and nothing heroic in killing the beauty of Nature. For me, the true heroes are who save the trees, animals and do all the best to protect the Nature... When I walked on mountains, I saw very old fruit trees that were kept by miracle. Those trees like living memorials of those days. Here is one of them. The beauty never dies...
When I was young girl and lived there, I loved to walk on mountains... With friends or alone. It was amazing experience of being really free.... North Caucasus is my motherland. Mountains have almost-vertical edges, and sometimes trees grow right on edges... That looks amazing... Before WW2, there were a lot of beautiful gardens near villages of native people of North Caucasus. But communists destroyed big part of those gardens because to not give it to Nazis! The communists wished to obtain the land that they took in 1920's and added it to territory of x-USSR. North Caucasus was not a part of Russian empire, it was a land where lived a lot of native people of Caucasus.The communists took the land about 20 years before WW2, so they decided to do all to not give the land to Nazis. Two thousand years there lived native people of Caucasus. Their main things to do were: agriculture, making artisan art/crafts, and trade. Geographically, a part of North Caucasus is South of Russian Federation. There is warm weather, not so-snowy cold as in Moscow, so North Caucasus is perfect for agriculture. And, North Caucasus has oil and lots of other useful sources. So here are 2 reasons why keeping this territory was very important. During WW2, the communists used trees to make bridges, firewalls and to cook food. They did not care that fruit trees are not good for making the bridge because it not strong at all. And new tree will should grow up for least 15 years before giving us a fruits... Yes, back in 1942-44, the thousand acres of beautiful trees were destroyed. It was awful time in history. Nothing nice and nothing heroic in killing the beauty of Nature. For me, the true heroes are who save the trees, animals and do all the best to protect the Nature... When I walked on mountains, I saw very old fruit trees that were kept by miracle. Those trees like living memorials of those days. Here is one of them. The beauty never dies...
