2020 — “CRIMEA. Here, in these folds of the sea and land ... ”

I worship you, O crystal stones,
Sea shells, starfish, anemones
Plants, mountains - epitomes
Of beauty, Nature's silent dreams;
Her fossilized imagination.

Maximilian Voloshin
“The Letter”, Verse 17

The nature of the Crimea inspired creative people with its uniqueness from ancient times. In the calendar for 2020 “Crimea. Here, in these folds of the sea and land ... ” you will find landscapes of the Crimea, decorated by Leocadia Chikalina with pebbles, shells, blade of grass, carefully collected on the Black Sea coast and on the footpaths of the coastal mountains, which gives the familiar images the volume and the author's mood. All landscapes are accompanied with poems by Maximilian Voloshin, a Russian poet and artist, whose paintings you will also find in the calendar, named from the line of his poem. Great assistance in publishing this calendar in two languages was provided by his translations of Maximilian Voloshin’s poems from Russian into English by Alexey Romanovsky. Full translations of Alexey can be found on the website: https://allpoetry.com/Maximilian-Alexandrovich-Voloshin. The only translation of another translator that we used for this calendar is the English version by Igor Larkov for the poem “Wormwood” for the month of October.
The gallery of Leocadia Chikalina’s works can be seen on the family’s website “The Chronicle of My Family”: https://www.mychronicle.ru/inspiration/gall/Lada.php

Galina Kurlyandchik