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- What is restoration to you?

- My feelings to save things. At first I woke up with the idea to renovate an icon and I thought I was doing something very significant, that I was saving it. I have never considered my work as a way of earning lots of money. I have never wanted to get rich from the restoration of icons. In the beginning, I went on vacation to an island. There I found a chapel in which the icons were swollen from moisture and ready to collapse. I went to the same island the following year. I brought the necessary materials and attached the paint layer to the wooden part of the icons without asking anyone. I didn’t care if anyone will know what I have done, nor I wanted to get paid. I believe - this is an old saying – we do not inherit things from our ancestors, rather we take them as a loan from our children. I have been workin for 16 years now and, thankfully, that feeling is still with me. Sometimes the tasks are difficult, or I need to travel a lot, or the conditions are very hard, or I’m not paid well. I do my job in the same way when I am not well paid, and when I get a good fee. My goal is always to restore as thoroughly as possible.